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Fortune
Get ready to hear a lot more about Glossier and Outdoor Voices in the coming year. Glossier, a cosmetics and personal care company founded by former Vogue fashion assistant Emily Weiss, calls itself the “first beauty lifestyle brand.” Outdoor Voices makes athletic gear; its CEO Tyler Haney says the company’s goal is to be “the next Nike.” But perhaps the most notable thing about Glossier and Outdoor Voices is the way they view physical retail spaces, which they have just started to experiment with.
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Curbed
The design of a police station only addresses a portion of the important issues impacting police and community relationships. But as the physical embodiment of neighborhood safety, it can certainly set the tone. But a number of designers are re-examining how these buildings can impact community relations, advancing new concepts for police stations that create better spaces for law enforcement and locals. The Metropolitan Division facility for the Los Angeles Police Department, a 28,000 square-foot, two-story structure, was designed to address community needs as well as streamline operations for numerous the police units who use the facility.
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Design Curial
Nature has played an increasing role throughout architecture and interior design in the past few years. Natural materials – rough textures and visual imperfections included – have figured prominently on spec lists in both the commercial and residential environment for a while, but is there more that designers could be doing to exploit all that nature has to offer?
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Wired
On a crisp and clear March day, more than five years after Jobs’ death, a Wired writer is seated in the back of a Jeep Wrangler in preparation to tour the nearly completed Apple Park, the name recently bestowed on the campus that Jobs pitched to the Cupertino City Council in 2011. At 50, Apple’s design chieftain still looks like the rugby player he once was, and he remains, despite fame, fortune, and a knighthood.
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Building Design + Construction
The Calgary International Airport needed a modular ceiling to assist with wayfinding and to mitigate noise for the 13 million passengers that pass through the facility each year. More than 200,000 square feet of Decoustics wood panel ceilings were used throughout the airport in conjunction with perforated metal ceiling panels. The wood panels are hung from a suspension system that gives the illusion of floating in air, which ties in with the open and airy design theme for the airport.
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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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Building Design + Construction
There will always be hotels catering to specific needs. There are hotels for pampering, hostels for the frugal adventurer, and business hotels designed for efficiency. And no doubt, these types are likely to exist in the future. But more recently, there’s a shift from accommodating to specific market niches toward places that can adapt to changing moods and activities.
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The Washington Post
This is not your father’s office. Instead of being situated in cubicles, employees’ desks are tucked into miniature houses with little windows and siding. The break room is designed to look like a 1950s diner. The outside of the main conference room recalls a church, which would be a gathering spot in a town in New England, where the chief executive is from.
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IIDA
IIDA is now accepting submissions to the IIDA/Contract Magazine Showroom and Booth Design Competition at NeoCon 2017. This competition honors originality of design, visual impact, effective use of materials, and the outstanding use of space, color, texture, lighting, and graphics in showrooms and booths at NeoCon. The competition is open to exhibitors at NeoCon 2017, scheduled for June 12-14, in Chicago. Entries will be judged by a panel of industry professionals. The deadline to enter is June 5.
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IIDA
Join IIDA at the third annual IIDA Advocacy Symposium in Chicago for a three-day weekend 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. Connect with passionate, dedicated, and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country. Space is limited. Register now.
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Building Design + Construction
Libraries remain one of the typologies that colleges and universities continue to invest in avidly. And most new construction and renovation seems to focus on creating spaces where students and even faculty can collaborate. A recent example is the $15 million, 21,000-square-feet expansion of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y. This library, with more than 650,000 visitors annually, is one of the campus’s most heavily used spaces, and its expansion “is long overdue,” says the college’s president Gail O. Mellow.
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Architectural Digest
One of the most enjoyable places to go snooping for design trends – if you like cocktails and appetizers to accompany your "research" – is at a restaurant. Especially when you're visiting a big, bustling, design-savvy city. These days, one can't go out to eat in a place like New York and evaluate the restaurant just for its food – what about the waitstaff's outfits and mood? The cuteness of the containers holding condiments on every table? The tone and finish of the plaster on the walls? It all matters. Which is why it's no surprise that some of our favorite trends of late can be traced to buzzy new eateries in New York City. Here's what we've learned by doing the hard work called "eating at beautiful, delicious restaurants everyone is talking about."
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Inc.
Graduate Hotels exist only in college towns, but you'll never see a felt football pennant in one of their lobbies. Instead, in the boutique chain's Berkeley, California, location, you'll find 9,000 vintage issues of National Geographic – the magazine's cover features a Pantone number that matches one of UC Berkeley's team colors. In the Graduate in Lincoln, Nebraska, home of the Cornhuskers, cornhusks styled to mimic the pattern of the banana-leaf wallpaper at the Beverly Hills Hotel adorn the walls. And at the Athens, Georgia, outpost, rooms are decorated with chalkboards bearing the chemical formula for sweet tea.
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This unique and diverse line of extruded aluminum trims was designed to enhance all practical aspects of drywall construction and transform it into a design medium that can make it the feature, the focus and the most impactful element of a well-designed space.
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Dezeen
This community space in Kanagawa, Japan, has removable exterior walls and reconfigurable interior partitions, meaning it can easily be adapted to suit different activities. The Substrate Factory Ayase is a two-storey extension to a circuit-board factory, located near the Atsugi naval air base. It provides an exhibition and events space for the local community. The desire for the building to be as multipurpose as possible led the project designer to create a flexible system of partition walls and facade panels. Inside the building, these adjustable walls are made from wood. On the ground floor, they slot into tracks in the floors and ceilings, and once in place they can slide back and forth.
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Eater
Even before there were proper walls at their restaurant Single Thread, chef Kyle Connaughton and farmer Katina Connaughton insisted they wanted the restaurant to feel like home – their home. The idea was to create a dinner party vibe, and Kyle credits the radically open kitchen with ensuring that sense of welcome. The restaurant’s open kitchen is certainly the focal point, but there’s plenty to look at in the fully appointed dining room.
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Curbed
The modern design of Chocholá, México’s gorgeous Ixi’im Restaurant was a true group effort. No fewer than four architecture studios had a hand in the renovation, which rehabilitated the 1800s engine house of a disintegrating farm. The mixture of old and new materials adds a contemporary flair to the ruin-like walls of the existing structure. As a striking touch, sections of agave rope are suspended from the ceiling of the main dining room, changing the acoustics of the space while featuring the handiwork of the last rope factory in Yucatan.
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Forbes
Regardless of what you do, chances are you have to exert influence on someone else to accomplish what’s expected of you. The problem is most of us become naturally resistant when we sense others trying to “change” us. We feel manipulated. We distrust their motive. We fear being taken advantage of. And we don’t want the comfort of our routine disrupted. There are some people who just have a knack for penetrating even the hardest of human exteriors and convincing people to get past what’s familiar and do the unimaginable. Regardless of their profession, they all have one powerful thing in common. The way they connect.
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Harvard Business Review
Organizations invest a lot of time and money in hiring the right CEO or senior executive to set a vision and make the changes in their company. Yet within the first 18 months, there’s a 50 percent chance the executive will leave the organization. This failure comes with enormous costs, not only in disruption to the organization but financially, too. One estimate puts the cost at 10 times the executive’s salary – sometimes more. The reasons these individuals leave are many. They often cite poor cultural fit, inadequate onboarding, or the lack of appropriate expectations. But in reality, many new executives inadvertently set themselves up for failure within the first few months of their tenure through their own actions.
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