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Tech Republic
Companies are spending more than ever to integrate tech in the workplace. According to a recent report, the cost has risen to up to 25 percent of the total cost of construction, up from 7 percent 10 years ago. Sophisticated conference rooms with interactive AV technology and smart TVs, and cloud-based solutions for employee mobility are driving the costs, the firm found. "The digital workplace is a major trend in corporate real estate right now," said David Roberts, managing director at JLL.
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Work Design
Many clients want to know what the latest trends in workplace design are, what others in their industry are doing. Workplace designers have been all too accommodating in providing this data and information, often at the expense of better research into how to quantify performance and uncovering more substantial information that better connects a particular workplace design strategy to an organization’s performance.
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Inc.
What's cool this year? Sustainability is key, as you'll see in the following light-soaked spaces with natural materials. Flexibility is the rule. And bold patterns and distinctive architectural choices abound. Take a look inside Inc.'s 10 favorites.
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Tornos News
Traditional front desks are on their way out, while living room-like public areas are coming in. Dual color tones and designs centered on culture are also making their way into new hotel projects and redesigns, hotel design experts said, hotelnewsnow.com reports."We're seeing the dual tones are pretty strong, kind of going from the cool tones back toward warmer, so gray is still huge, but (hotel design colors are) kind of leaning more toward the warmer tones with metal finishes," said Lesley Hughes Wyman, principal and cofounder at MatchLine Design Group.
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Fast Casual
Tracking design innovation and trends tell a story about the hospitality industry and can help paint a picture of the future. Restaurants are typically classified into QSR, fast casual, casual, polished casual, and fine dining. Historically, fine dining was chef-driven and polished casual aimed to follow suit, while the other three categories often did not make this a priority. In the past few years, however, we've seen a shift begin to take place. Rather than going into fine dining, chefs are now looking at translating their ideas to a limited-menu, fast casual concept. So how does this shift affect things from a design standpoint?
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Metropolis
Coming innovations mean that work will be unconstrained by a building, free to expand and evolve, to shrink and transition. Given the evolution of technology, we will continue to work from anywhere and across multiple time zones. In fact, in the next decade, estimates suggest that upwards of 40 percent of the workforce will work remotely or within a distributed work model. Paradoxically, the new workplace is also about community, social interaction, and culture, because as people work more remotely, they encounter new points of interaction. Perhaps people want a place to gather, a place that fosters community brainstorming, and a place that would allow for deeper interpersonal relationships to develop.
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IIDA
Join IIDA at the second annual IIDA Advocacy Symposium for three days of sessions, speakers, and panels focused on the advocacy topics that matter most to commercial interior designers. Learn critical skills, including how to build relationships with decision-makers, work with other stakeholder groups, and promote grassroots involvement, and connect with passionate, dedicated, and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country. IIDA members must login prior to registering to receive the IIDA discount. Registration closes Sept. 16, 2016. Register today.
IIDA
IIDA, in cooperation with EDmarket, has created the EDspaces Innovation Awards to recognize manufacturers and designers for excellence in product design for the learning environment. Exhibitors at EDspaces 2016 are eligible to submit product entries. Products not displayed at EDspaces 2016 are not eligible to participate. Products must be designed for the learning environment and offered for sale or use after Nov. 1, 2015. The deadline to enter is Friday, Oct. 14. Enter now
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The award-winning Acrovyn Wall Panel system provides designers the opportunity to reset their standards with extensive new design selections that install in half the time previously required. With new trim and edge options, panel depths and endless finishes, designers can create unique spaces that are protected and easily maintained.
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Fast Company
CEO and founder of Donorschoose.org Charles Best shares why he absolutely needs this item to stay on top of his game.
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Dezeen
To create a more inviting space for the customers of Xie Xie Cafe in Hangzhou, wooden beams were added to the existing steel and glass roof to soften the interior. The designers used the wooden lattice effect on half of the interior ceiling. It allows light to flood through the glass roof onto the diners below, creating the impression of an undercover terrace.
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Home Polish
Anomaly partner Franke Rodriguez defines his creative agency company's work style in a way that perfectly fits the name. "It's difficult to define, but it's open, collaborative, high-energy, loud, obsessive, innovative... and often booze-filled." The company is a mere 10 years old, but it has already spread it's "new model" creative firm to Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. The latest in a series of expansions, the New York SoHo office took over 10,000 additional square feet. In keeping with their innovative business model, the company decided not to arrange the floor as a typical office, but to arrange it as an edgy and industrial social space.
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Broadsheet
It took around three-and-a-half years to build the newly opened QT Melbourne and it shows in the details. The lobby is packed with custom-made artwork and furniture (including the “Coitus Interruptus”, a bold, blue, double-chaise lounge with an armrest running down the centre). A brass-reception desk is engraved with scenes from the Paris end of Collins Street.
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inhabitat
Clif Bar, maker of trail-worthy natural snacks since 1990, has opened a new bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho, that elevates the company’s commitment to sustainability to a whole new level of delicious. The $90-million facility employs biophilic design, an integrative approach to architecture that places the utmost importance on the interdependent relationships between people and the world in which we live. The 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility interior features locally sourced and reclaimed materials were used wherever possible, including recycled barnwood and Idaho quartzite stone on the interior walls. One main area of the facility features a 3-D art wall combining brightly colored phrases promoting the company’s culture, with baking equipment accenting the facility’s express purpose.
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Any environment you design that integrates a Corian® solid surface can get a boost from Corian® Charging Surface. In an airport, a high-rise, office spaces, hospitals, hotels or more, you can now offer customers a solid surface that charges smart devices wirelessly. Learn more about specifying Corian® Charging Surface.
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Health Facilities Management
Healthcare facilities have undergone numerous physical changes over the past several years as the creation of specialized units within the hospital’s walls have given way to ambulatory clinics to solidify surgical, birthing, rehabilitation, wound care, radiology, emergency department, and diagnostic functions. Concurrent with these physical modifications have been shifts in ownership alignments as mergers and acquisitions of entities ranging from systems to physician practices have played a larger role in the profiles of the modern healthcare organization.
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Fast Company
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, which will be located on the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, is clad in translucent marble resembling Rorschach blot patterns. It's a fitting visual metaphor, signaling the structure's programmatic conceit: It's designed to morph to accommodate a variety of performances, from music to theater, dance, and film, taking on the vision of whoever is directing a particular piece on a particular day.
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Wired
Singapore's Changi Airport, the world's best airport for the fourth consecutive year boasts a rooftop pool, 24-hour cinema, butterfly garden, and spas – all surrounded by lush vegetation to make you forget you're stuck in a concrete and steel jungle waiting to board an aluminum tube. So if you're Changi Airport and you want to top yourself, you have to go big. When the airport's newest structure opens in 2018, it will boast the Rain Vortex, the world's tallest indoor waterfall.
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By Catherine Iste
When we think of mentors, the image is one of a more senior person sharing his/her vast knowledge with a junior person. Employees, coaches, moms, leaders of any kind – all can be mentors if they have more experience than the person being mentored. But where is the line between mentoring and cooperating? If a mentor shared all of his knowledge with a mentee who then became his equal, would he do it all over again if he could travel back in time? According to my colleagues: No.
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Fast Company
All work and no play can make life pretty dull. But for some, play is more than a weekend game of golf or a night out at the movies. It’s a project that fuels a passion. From chasing storms to teaching soccer, these six business leaders make the most of their nonworking hours.
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