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Inc.
When you're trying to align your culture with your purpose, one of the areas that you should consider is the way your office design reflects that alignment. If your work is creative and forward thinking, but your office environment is dull and boring, that sends mixed messages to employees and customers alike. So how can you align your culture with office design to ensure employee engagement with your purpose and encourage customer engagement with your brand? Start by thinking beyond the cubicle to office designs that suit the cultural values you want to promote.
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HR Dive
Humanscale has issued a white paper in which designers describe the way the "new office" looks and functions. Ergonomic furnishings to sustain employees' health and wellness are on the horizon for many workspaces, according to the report. Innovative office designs also allow workers to shift between sitting and standing to lower fatigue. The designers suggest that office design is following function, or the needs of a workforce that’s changing how work gets done.
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Fast Company
A report, called "Dangerous by Design 2016," focuses on designing streets for multi-modal transportation, and ranks every state and more than 100 major metropolitan areas by what it calls the Pedestrian Danger Index, which assesses the likelihood of a car hitting a pedestrian by comparing the rate of pedestrian deaths in an area to the rate of people who walk to work. This year, as in past editions of the report, the most dangerous places for pedestrians are often found in Sunbelt states that experienced a substantial boom in the postwar era (aka the interstate era).
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Fast Company
With its forthcoming renovation and addition scheduled to open in 2020, the American Museum of Natural History in New York is on a mission to become the world's science lab. Neil deGrasse Tyson – director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History, astrophysicist, and the scientific world's biggest cheerleader – offered a poignant comment on why the new museum's design and approach to communication has so much potential and is so necessary.
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USA Today
The interior of luxury line Seabourn's new Seabourn Encore is all curves, from the swirl of the mahogany railing at the bottom of the main stairway to the circular bartender's hub at the ship-top Observation Bar. The curvaceousness is about more than aesthetics, said the ship's designer. It's about catering to the needs of the customer. The typical Seabourn passenger is 66 years old or older, a stage in life where hard angles and sharp edges can be an obstacle.
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No matter what market or environment you are designing for, Acrovyn by Design can reproduce virtually any image, message or color onto your walls without the concern of damage. Forge a new aesthetic with a selection of ready-to-print patterns, or customize with stunning graphics. Create something beautiful and protect it for years to come.
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Fast Company
In 2012, HBO announced the formation of HBO Code Labs, now named Digital Products, a software-engineering arm based in Seattle – a strategic move to tap into the Pacific Northwest's tech scene – to help the company stay fresh. To help spark the next big idea, the company worked with a design group to design a workspace that would fuel collaboration and creative thinking. Much of the furniture, including tables, desks, and storage carts, is movable so employees can modify reconfigure arrangements at-will. The designers mounted white boards to walls along the space's hallways for brainstorming, and included tall tables for daily stand-up meetings, along with lounge seating for informal conversations.
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Business Insider
For decades, New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport has stood as one of the world's largest aviation hubs, servicing some 50 million passengers a year. But modern times have seen it fall behind pioneering airports. Plans for JFK’s long-abandoned TWA Flight Center for the airport’s first high-end hotel were recently unveiled – and it looks like it's going to be a doozy.
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IIDA
What Clients Want, Volume 3, created by IIDA with the generous support of Tarkett and the IIDA Foundation, takes you on an international tour of exceptional retail design – from pop-ups to luxury shops – providing insightful project commentary about what it takes to create a unique costumer experience from the perspective of both the designer and the client. The book features 16 international retail design projects, including top global brands Barneys New York, Aesop, Intersect by Lexus, Montblanc, and more. IIDA Members receive one complimentary copy of What Clients Want, Volume 3 (pay only shipping + handling). Copies are also available for purchase.
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IIDA
IIDA announced the opening of the Association’s two premier design competitions, the 44th annual Interior Design Competition and the 25th annual Will Ching Design Competition. These international competitions honor outstanding, innovative, and original designs with the Interior Design Competition open to firms of any size and the Will Ching Design Competition recognizing commercial design from firms of five employees or fewer. The deadline to enter both competitions is Wednesday, Feb. 8.
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Real Business
For the past few years, the idea of unique office design, perks of the job, culture and so forth have become commonplace, as employees want more from their working day, and Rackspace has recognized that fact. "Years ago, we started referring to our office as 'The Home of Fanatical Support,' so we embraced this into our culture we designed the office space in the theme of a home," said Rackspace Senior Director of Global Talent Development James Mitchell. This plan translated into a multi-layered workplace that comes complete with garage-esque ground floor with Mini Cooper, a retro lounge vibe on floor one, a library atmosphere on floor two, and a back garden setting on floor three, which boasts benches, swings, and artificial grass.
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Bradley is proud to introduce the Verge Lavatory System with new all-in-one WashBar technology. All the fundamentals of handwashing have been thoughtfully designed into the cutting edge WashBar which houses complete handwashing functionality - soap, water and dryer - in one compact, uncluttered design. This is Performance by Demand.
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The Telegraph
The country house has long been a bastion of the glorious English countryside, but this year belongs to their cooler younger sisters: the new-era inn. Last summer saw the opening of Coombeshead Farm in Cornwall by two highly acclaimed chefs. Food, of course, is a focus, as is the community feel – Fiona Duncan, hotel expert, reported "evenings are successful, with strangers gelling."
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Herald-Tribune
The excitement of students and faculty at the opening of Ringling College of Art and Design's new Alfred R. Goldstein Ringling College Library in Sarasota, Florida, was obvious from the looks on their faces. With its modern design, pops of bright color, and an M.C. Escher-like black spiral staircase, the comparison to the Gothic architecture of Harry Potter's boarding school may be questionable, but the feeling of magic the new library instilled in students was perhaps the more applicable part of it.
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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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Yahoo
"The office of the future is not a place where people come just to do work. It's a place to make personal connections with colleagues," says Ross Love, The Boston Consulting Group's managing partner for New York. "We wanted to create a significantly higher level of unplanned collisions to transform our office culture." Love is explaining a key element behind the design of the firm's bold new office at 10 Hudson Yards.
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Interior Design
Whether you're winding down after work or socializing with friends, these bars provide an awe-inspiring backdrop. Inside Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s new restaurant, brass-framed gradient glass partitions delineate the bar. Visitors can see the Huangpu River and Shanghai skyline through the heritage windows or reflected in an antiqued mirror etched with texts from French philosophers.
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Healthcare Design Magazine
Design firms spend a lot of time creating positive distractions in patient rooms, waiting spaces, and respite areas, all in an effort to reduce stress and create welcoming environments for patients and families. In pediatric facilities, those efforts are especially meaningful and can range from child-friendly artwork and graphics to interactive play sets and virtual reality experiences.
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The University of Kansas
Modern hospital design – with all-private patient rooms, larger units, and decentralized nursing stations – has raised concerns about nurses walking long distances and failing to maintain proximity to patients. The supposed benefit of decentralizing nurses’ stations is to afford more time at the patient bedside, less walking distance, and better patient care. However, this trend may have unintended consequences.
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Business Insider
Even as e-readers make paper books less necessary, people still crave a physical space to surround ourselves with knowledge. To find the most beautiful libraries in each state, Business Insider looked at past and current award-winners as judged by the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association awards, and relied on our own judgment for states who have never won.
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Fast Company
Mike Tyson once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." So what do we do when the unexpected arrives? How do we adjust? This may be the central leadership question of 2017.
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Forbes
IBM’s global study of over 1,500 CEOs revealed that CEOs are acutely concerned with the pace of change in today’s world and figuring out how to run organizations ill prepared to deal with that change. As a leader, you can’t accurately predict the future, but you can increase the capacity of your organization to deal with an uncertain one. To do that, you’ll need to hone one skill to near super-power levels: coaching.
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