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MarketWatch
As employees have expressed a desire to move throughout office spaces during the day and choose how and where they work, experts in office design say they have seen a shift in traditional workplace designs in the last several years. It's a move away from a rigid structure, in which employees are assigned to individual desks and expected to stay there, and a push toward giving them options. The result: More employers are turning to practices known as "hoteling," "hot desking," and "free address" that typically allow workers to choose their desks for a particular day, or even a portion of the day. Offices are characterized by "balanced" layouts, with various types of furniture, arranged similarly to hotel lounges or even homes.
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Design Milk
It's impossible to put into words the loss felt around the world hearing the news that legendary architect and designer Zaha Hadid passed away on March 31. The Iraqi-born, London-based architect paved a path for not only women in design, but everyone, with her highly recognizable aesthetic that was all her own.
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Fast Company
Airbnb has shaken up the way we travel thanks to its quirky and off-beat escapes. In fact, its model has been so successful that big hotel chains are ripping pages from its book. The company's next big export? Possibly its office design, which marries local culture with Silicon Valley flash. Over the last decade or so, the tech world has cultivated a taste for bombastic office spaces that are a visual feast – a trend for which we have Google to thank. Instead of opting for the cliché foosball tables and frivolity, Airbnb is creating offices that are emblematic of its philosophy of "belonging anywhere."
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Entertainment Designer
When you first think of airport design, there are numerous considerations: Traffic flows, landing space for planes, retail, and how to keep people moving in and out of the space efficiently. But the design team behind the new Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX had a bigger vision: The Integrated Environmental Media System (IEMS). By using the IEMS to lighten the mood and infuse some pleasure back into the travel experience, LAX is providing a powerful model of what can be accomplished with strategic planning and forethought.
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Curbed
Known for setting up field hospitals and clinics around the world – from the Philippines to Afghanistan and Syria – Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF), the international medical nonprofit, wants to move into dangerous areas even faster. According to the organization's technical team leader Elvina Motard, MSF sees 3-D-printing and virtual reality as new means to help them design, build, and deploy even faster.
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The Acrovyn Wall Panel line provides designers the opportunity to reset their standards with extensive new design selections that install in half the time previously required. New trim and edge options, panel depths and endless finishes create a unique space that is both protected and easily cleaned.
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Curbed
The office of the future is still a ways off, according to a massive new study of office space design and engagement conducted on behalf of office furniture company Steelcase. Engagement + The Global Workplace looked at the link between worker engagement and their physical environment. According to Chris Congdon, the company’s Global Research Director, despite perceptions of the massive shift in office space design and layout, change isn’t happening nearly as quickly as many think.
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Healthcare Design
Strategically planned bed growth in rehabilitation care is primarily being inspired by meeting the needs of baby boomers and beyond. On the inpatient side, emphasis on single-occupancy post-acute rooms is expected to continue, says Brenna Costello, principal and medical planner with SmithGroupJJR. However, it’s not just the size of that patient population and age-related ailments that are pushing growth.
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IIDA
IIDA has released its Industry Roundtable report tackling the topic of diversity and inclusion in the design industry. The report, "Diversity and Design: Why Gender, Equity, and Multidisciplinary Thinking are Essential to Business," summarizes the lively and productive discussion of 30 design industry leaders at the 19th annual IIDA Industry Roundtable in January 2016 and provides a strategic roadmap for the newly formed IIDA Diversity Council. The report is available to download on the website.
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IIDA
IIDA, in partnership with Alessi, announces the fourth annual Best Interiors of Latin America and the Caribbean Competition. This competition recognizes interior design/architecture projects that reflect the highest levels of creativity and excellence from Latin America and the Caribbean. The deadline for entries is Friday, April 8.
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Rejournals
Like clothes, furniture trends also change with each season. According to SEAATS, a Chicago-based commercial furnishings company and a division of Earles Architects and Associates, the top furniture trends for the spring season are all about making the office environment inviting, adaptable and efficient, and attractive. Alesia Atwood, corporate account manager with SEAATS, said employers realize that the office environment has to be just right in order to attract top talent. “The layout of the office, the flow of work space, and the furniture arrangements all fit together to create an appealing work environment,” she said.
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The Urban Developer
Many people, when asked about libraries, imagine old buildings with dimmed light and endless rows of heavy wooden bookshelves. Moreover, the rise of the Internet and digital books have caused many to forecast the downfall of the traditional library. Instead, libraries are having a renaissance. Gone are the musty rooms with wood paneling and in are open spaces flooded with natural light and bright colors.
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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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Los Angeles Times
Rick McCormack, designer for the new Ritz Prime Seafood restaurant in Newport Beach, California, addressed one complaint frequently heard from restaurant goers: Noise levels in new restaurants like the Ritz and The Winery. "There's a fine line between too noisy and too quiet. Everyone wants an energetic atmosphere, and that happened at The Winery," he says. McCormack explained that noise issues had to be addressed there after the fact, using acoustical material and consulting with an acoustical engineer. In the case of the Ritz, a great deal of money went into acoustical materials, including a perforated wood ceiling that acts as an acoustical damper.
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DeZeen
Materials and colors used throughout the interior of an Aesop store in Sapporo, Japan, were designed to mimic the surrounding landscape of snow-topped mountains. The main material used to cover the walls and main counter is Sapporo freestone – a type of volcanic stone, which the architects say has been used as a construction material in the region for more than 100 years. Stainless steel was used to create the display shelves and other functional fixtures throughout the store including the demonstration sink – an important fixture in all the Australian brand's stores.
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Now stain-free carpets don't have to come at the expense of the environment. ECONYL® StayClean fiber is a solution dyed nylon 6 fiber made from 100% regenerated nylon. Intrinsically stain-resistant yarn with unique polymer characteristics that last the entire lifespan of the carpet, guaranteeing an easy water-only treatment.
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Interior Design
Considering that the wellness economy is one of the world's fastest-growing industries, it's no surprise that it’s currently fueling a plethora of adventurous new architectural projects across the world. Interior Design highlights three new wellness-focused buildings that are not only mindful of their environment, but also of the people that inhabit them.
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The Eyeopener
The interior design curriculum is going to go through a major shift in the next two to three years across all of North America, according to assistant professor of interior design Jonathon Anderson. That shift is attributed to new technologies that are becoming more readily available, such as computer numeric controlled routers, 3-D printing, laser cutters, advanced digital software, and scripting software. "So there's a technical knowledge that has to be gained. But I think that [these new technologies] ... are tools. There still takes a certain level of applied creative thinking that needs to happen to approach a design situation or design problem with a computer or with the fabrication," Anderson said.
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Harvard Business Review
Research shows that in leaderless groups, leaders emerge by quickly synchronizing their brain waves with followers through high quality conversations. Simply put, synchrony is a neural process where the frequency and scale of brain waves of people become in sync. Verbal communication plays a large role in synchronization, especially between leaders and followers. Synchrony between leaders and followers leads to mutual understanding, cooperation, coordinated execution of tasks, and collective creativity.
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Fortune
Much that is written about leaders these days seems to be negative: They are incompetent, arrogant, unethical, greedy, the list goes on and on. No doubt, there is a great deal of anger and cynicism from employees, shareholders, and voters. When things go wrong in our lives, we are quick to place the blame for our ills on our leaders, and we often expect our leaders to fix things. Are we justified in doing so?
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