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Metropolis
Relinquishing the traditional bathroom model is daunting, since individual toilet rooms can significantly increase costs through additional plumbing, ductwork, ventilation, partitions, doors, and hardware. New restroom designs many times require additional space, trigger further ADA compliance, and invalidate some USGBC LEED points. Moreover, school districts typically have limited budgets, established facilities, and deep-rooted social practices. Which is why the initiative shown by Grant High School in the Portland Public School District has been so extraordinary. In 2013, the school had 10 students who openly identified as transgender. To help combat the real possibility that they would drop out due to a perceived lack of safety, administrators designated four student bathrooms and two staff bathrooms – each individual rooms with a toilet, sink, and mirror – as gender-inclusive.
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Wired
Bay Area Rapid Transit – aka BART, which carries riders around San Francisco and its environs – has spent the past seven years creating its new generation of train cars. Many of its current ones are more than 40 years old, and increasingly squeezed for space. To kick off the design process, back in 2009, BART asked its riders to send them feedback via email. “Of the first 300 emails we got, the single biggest issue was having adequate seating,” says BART marketing and research manager Aaron Weinstein. So the Jedi mind tricks start there.
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Fast Company
When it comes to climbing the corporate ladder, women get less access to career-advancing opportunities, they’re less likely to see fellow women in senior management, and they’re less confident that they’ll reach the top ranks, according to the “Women in the Workplace 2016” study, conducted by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company. In this situation, less is definitely not more, but could redesigning the workplace help fix the problem?
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Hotel News Now
As trends, technology, and the needs and expectations of guests change, the hotel industry also must adapt. One of the bigger trends seen during the evolution of hotel design in the past few years is the elevated importance of the lobby and public spaces as focal points of hotel architecture and design. For today’s instant-gratification generations who want to be wired in 24/7, lobbies have been adapted to be highly interactive social areas for the complete eat/work/play experience. This is now the space for collaboration, social networking, and work away from the office.
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Healthcare Design
Many challenges entered into the equation of designing Florida Hospital for Women in downtown Orlando, including masking vibrations and sounds from an adjacent railroad, constructing safe balconies for patients to step out for fresh air, and creating a feminine ambience inspired by the beauty of nature. But they were challenges worth tackling for Adventist Health System, owner of Florida Hospital, in the face of a huge population swell in metro Orlando. The design of the women’s hospital strives to blend in with the building’s campus surroundings while also achieving a distinct identity. For example, the existing main hospital tower is angular, solid, and masculine, whereas the 12-story women’s hospital is curved in a gentle and graceful way.
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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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Dezeen
According to new research by Haworth, the right office design can increase the happiness of employees, whereas ping-pong tables, slides, and even pay rises can't. The findings are contained in a new white paper launched by the office furniture giant at the recently-held Orgatec workplace design fair in Cologne, Germany. "Our research shows that there are specific design elements you can use to help workers feel happier," said Michael O'Neill, Haworth's head of research. "That's what the data is saying."
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IIDA
Understanding the power of workplace design can be the difference between attracting and retaining the best employees and losing out to your competitors. For the second in our Design Leveraged series, IIDA and BIFMA commissioned a study examining how design affects employee satisfaction and engagement. What we found makes clear: There is an undeniable business case for good design. IIDA Members receive a digital copy of the report for free. Hard copies are available for purchase.
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IIDA
IIDA is now accepting submissions to the 7th annual Global Excellence Awards. The design competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the creation of international Interior Design/Interior Architecture projects in 14 categories. Projects must be located outside of the United States, however, the design firm may be located anywhere (including the United States). A winners reception will be held at MAISON&OBJET Paris in January 2017. The deadline to enter is Friday, Nov. 18. Enter now
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Fast Company
Comfort, warmth, openness – Bob Greenberg says R/GA, the firm he founded in 1977, was in dire need of a refresh. The company had outgrown its space six blocks north, a stale set of offices, Greenberg says, that started to feel more like a law firm than a place of creativity. The changes, Greenberg says, aren’t simply aesthetic. As R/GA now competes for talent not only with other interactive and advertising consultancies and agencies, but also with startups and big technology companies, this new office was apparently essential in lowering the company’s attrition rates. "We’ve gained about 5 [percentage] points in terms of retention [since moving into our new office]," Greenberg boasts.
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Dezeen
Custom-made artwork cover the walls of social areas in this Chinese hotel by Shanghai studio X+Living, which features interiors and furniture designed to attract younger guests. X+Living, located on the seventh floor of a shopping mall in the Binjiang district of Hangzhou, wanted to create a series of playful social spaces that would encourage young travelers to "flirt" with the hotel and each other. The team designed the interiors like an art gallery, creating blank canvases to hang unusual art objects on the walls. This includes a coffee shop with seven wooden figures falling from the sky with parachutes and a games room topped with a web of black lines.
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Bradley's new HS-Series Terreon® solid surface undermount basins have a clean, flat bottom design that maximizes basin capacity for general handwashing or multi-purpose use that also meets ADA guidelines. Five basin choices and dozens of colors provide design flexibility. Ideal for use in healthcare and general commercial applications.
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Interior Design
From a table collection that extends beyond the office to a coveted glare-proof LED task light, Cologne, Germany, was the place to be for the latest and greatest products, concepts, and solutions in the world of work. Held at the Koelnmesse exhibition center from Oct. 25-29, the biannual Orgatec drew some 665 companies from 40 countries this year, with around 50,000 visitors from home and abroad. Here are a few of Interior Design's favorite finds from the show.
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Healthcare Design
It’s no secret that healthcare organizations across the country are shifting more and more services out of acute care settings. The move makes sense on a number of fronts, not least of which is the ability to reduce costs and improve outcomes all while increasing access and growing market share. “The sheer volume of clinics being considered and built now is a stunning difference in the last five to 10 years,” says Ted Shaw, associate principal at Perkins+Will (New York). The development of clinics – the catch-all term for pretty much any site that provides outpatient care, according to those who build them – is further inspired by healthcare reform pressing the need for population health management, with providers more invested than ever in keeping people well.
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ABET Laminati's Woodgrain Collection features reproductions so convincing even an arborist would likely be deceived. With over 75 patterns inspired by nature and ready to ship from our U.S. facilities, you can enhance the beauty and warmth of your design project within your timeline and budget. Order samples at 800.228.2238 or sales@abetlaminati.com
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Interior Design
Workplace projects typically have story lines. While the San Francisco headquarters of the digital file-sharing service Dropbox is immense, the plot is tight. Designers said it’s based on a diagram of a radially expanding village with a strong core and smaller nodes. In terms of function, they are key gathering places shared by the Dropbox population. Reading positively gallery-esque, the double-height reception area’s mirrored wall captures the reflection of serpentine benches in steam-bent oak strips, sitting on the polished concrete floor, and a constellation of moss-wrapped spheres hovering overhead. The slimmer structure, meanwhile, houses what are arguably the most striking of the nodes, starting with the library on two.
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Fast Company
Everyone does "difficult conversations" differently. But no matter your approach, the challenge is the same: sorting out really touchy issues while sidestepping the risk of raw emotions – hostility, rejection, confrontation, despair – getting in the way and making things worse. Some people's jobs require tough conversations on a daily basis, though – people like cancer specialists, divorce lawyers, book editors, CEOs, and social workers. Experts in each those fields share how they handle it.
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Harvard Business Review
Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan – it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15 percent more likely to have returns above the industry mean. In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: Nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter.
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