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As 2018 comes to a close, IIDA wishes its members, partners, and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year, we are providing the readers of Spectrum with a look at the most accessed articles from 2018. Our regular publication will resume on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019.
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Fast Company Design
From March 15: The Affordable Care Act requires that most employers provide a private space for new mothers to pump milk—that’s not just a bathroom stall. But in the eight years since the law came into effect, some companies have decided to interpret it by designating closets, shower stalls, and single-stall bathrooms as lactation rooms. Others have no place to pump at all, and some moms have resigned to pumping in their cars as a result.
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Design Milk
From April 13: Decked out in black and white stripes and bubble gum pink, The Pink Zebra, aka Feast India Co., is bound to catch everyone’s eye from a distance, thanks to Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio. Their thought, “How about we dip a zebra into a deep pink sea?” seems completely appropriate once you take a look around. The idea began with a nod to the surreal sets of Wes Anderson, whose films the clients love. The stripes go every which way, along with pink slats on the ceiling that let lines of natural light shine through for added dramatic effect.
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Building Design + Construction
From Feb. 1: We have the potential to improve design quality for everyone by understanding how individuals with autism view the world. While autism in part gave us modern architecture, making autism spectrum disorder inclusivity a priority in design is a necessary step that could encourage innovation and potentially propel us into a new era of architecture.
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Acrovyn Wall Panels are the answer to the industry's need for a custom, easily installed wall panel system. A reimagined offering of functional and aesthetic improvements allows for use of Acrovyn Wall Panels in a variety of spaces with protective and decorative needs. From our solid color offering to our Chameleon™ simulated patterns and Acrovyn by Design®, interior environments have visual freedom when it comes to design possibilities.
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Design Milk
From May 3: After quickly outgrowing their 26,000-square-foot office, Dollar Shave Club was in need of a new headquarters to house all of their employees in Marina del Rey, California. The company enlisted Rapt Studio to design CEO Michael Dubin’s dream space that focused on connection, collaboration, and comfort for employees and visitors alike. The new 50,000-square-foot office was gutted to make way for the open floor plan, which includes communal workspaces, massage and relaxation rooms, a barber shop, a coffee bar, showers, bike stations, and more.
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Metropolis Magazine
From Oct. 5: Every classroom in the New York-based Blue School has its own, brightly-colored stage—or at least, you’d think they were stages. The nomenclature varies depending on whom you ask: architect David Rockwell calls them “urban porches” while Ashley Hughes, the school’s director of operations, simply refers to them as “niches.” In any case, these variegated platforms are simple but adaptable classroom elements: They can be used for group work, presentations, or quiet individual reading.
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Dornob
From April 19: Upon entering an interior space, the ceiling may not always be the first thing you notice—and that makes total sense, given the fact that most ceilings are made from some bland form of drywall or suspended paneling. Some ceilings are left exposed, allowing the structural concrete to contribute to a space’s overall feel. Whereas floors and walls can come in numerous textures and colors, ceilings are often limited in the way of diversity. With stretch ceilings that diversity grows substantially.
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Introducing Citrus by Cramer: a fresh take on what to expect from Med-Tech seating. Simple, fresh and clean modern design with an intuitive Flex Function that lets the chair adapt to each individual user with no adjustment necessary.
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Fast Company Design
From Feb. 8: Working in an office with a lot of natural light doesn’t just make you more productive on the job and help you sleep better at night—it may also be vital to your intelligence. A new study from Michigan State University has found that spending too much time in dim areas, could actually change the structure of rats’ brains, impacting the way they remember information and learn new things. It suggests that the quality of light in our physical environments may deeply affect us.
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Interior Design
From May 10: In an otherwise subdued district of Moscow, V12 Architect’s recent project is a dazzling, if unusual, beacon. The space in question, a colorful café splashed with lemon-yellow accents and glowing neon twists, was dreamed up by the designers for returning client Karavaev Brothers. This was the culinary chain’s third time hiring V12. With just over 2,100-square-feet to cover and an exterior renovation in order, Karavaev Brothers needed a team who could pack a visual punch into a space that still streamlined food service.
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Azure
From Jan. 11: Experts have proven biophilic design principles benefit the bottom line and now the design industry is embracing the science. Biophilic design is the idea that in order to create a healthy work environment, design needs to incorporate nature—everything from access to daylight and water to air filtration, noise control, and comfortable interior temperatures. Though the word biophilia was popularized in 1985 by biologist and environmental theorist Edward O. Wilson its application has remained on the fringes. That's about to change.
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The Architect's Newspaper
From Nov. 21: The Spruce Goose, a derogatory nickname for the Hughes H-4 Hercules, only flew once, but the largest plane ever built (entirely out of wood, to boot) continues to live on in pop culture ephemera. The plane has found a permanent home in Oregon’s Evergreen Aviation Museum, but the Los Angeles hangar where the Spruce Goose was built is getting a second shot at life. Under the timber hangar’s four-story-tall roof, ZGF Architects has completed a voluminous open office for Google that celebrates the building’s aeronautical heritage.
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