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Metropolis
Architects have enormous sway in specifying building materials and modes of operation; they also understand the political, budget, and client-education barriers to executing zero-carbon designs better than anyone.
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Los Angeles Times
Google's January announcement that it would take over much of the failed Westside Pavilion shopping center, which is becoming offices, showed technology disrupting retail in the most concrete of ways.
But even more, the land grab underscored the ascendancy of a new class of whale-size office tenants—tech giants turned media moguls. Those companies are gobbling up vast chunks of Los Angeles-area office space in a race to set up shop for fast-growing entertainment divisions.
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Interior Design
The misty mountains of Nara, Japan are known for their ancient temples, sacred deer, and the Horiuchi Fruit Farm, in operation for over a hundred years. It's a long way from Osaka's booming Grand Front redevelopment complex of hotels, residential towers, and shopping centers. After building a café showcasing its goods near the farm, Horiuchi wanted to bring the fruits of its harvests to city dwellers and called upon Yagyug Douguten to devise a plan.
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Dezeen
Virgil Abloh has adapted the designs of Jean Prouvé and the Eames' to create his vision of the home of the future, which is installed in the Zaha Hadid-designed fire station at the Vitra Campus.
The designer delved into the Vitra archive to put together the exhibition Twentythirtyfive. He hacked and reimagined many of the furniture brand's most iconic products to help him imagine the home of a young adult in 2035.
His vision includes a seesaw made out of Charles and Ray Eames' Wire Chairs and a storage cabinet with bricks for shelves.
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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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KGO-TV
Kids living in San Francisco's Star Community Home are enjoying a colorful new playroom, a chic community dining space, and a luxurious mother's corner thanks to a local tech company that worked to improve the lives of homeless women and children in the area. "We really wanted to make the space feel cozy and warm," said Alessandra Wood, vice president of style for Modsy, an online interior design startup headquartered in San Francisco. "We had talked about wanting to do something special to give back," said Wood. Soon after their fourth anniversary, Wood and a team of 40 set out to transform the Richmond District shelter in one day. "This is a women's shelter, a shelter for moms and their children and we wanted them to feel special," explained Wood.
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American Biltrite
AB PURE rubber tiles and sheet with Nfuse technology is an overall product treatment technology that allows the coating to penetrate and seal the product.
The benefits of this “Occupancy Ready” rubber flooring are:
Minimal set-up time = dramatic reduction in set-up costs;
Simple maintenance capabilities, Increased stain resistance, "Declare" Red List Free.
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Contract Design
Open plan. Colorful work pods. Glazed meeting rooms. Raw finishes. None of this is new when it comes to the modern workplace. But when it comes to appealing to a super young staff and daily visitors who are barely in high school, designers need to take it up another notch. The Generation Z office has all those contemporary design details and a whole lot more.
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Chicago Tribune
As Generation Z starts entering the workforce, office interior designers are creating flexible workspaces that offer the privacy young workers—those born between 1997 and 2012—demand.
Design experts say privacy is important to this young generation of workers in order to escape the noisiness that has enveloped the open office, so they are drawing inspiration from a surprising place: the phone booth, an obsolete space most members of Gen Z have probably never entered.
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Healthcare Design
Awareness of staff and their space needs is coming to the forefront of healthcare design—and with good reason. Healthcare organizations face a staffing crisis that's predicted to only get worse.
Those who are entering the field or already working in healthcare are finding crowded work spaces and growing competition for offices, conference rooms, or countertops at the nurses' station. Other staff spaces, including break and locker rooms, can feel like afterthoughts. Looking for an antidote to this space crisis, healthcare organizations are turning to design to deliver appealing work areas that can help retain staff, support employee well-being, and improve operations, driving a new conversation between healthcare clients and their design and architecture partners.
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Mental Floss
Months before it opened, the world's largest underwater restaurant in Norway was already flooded with reservations. Recently, Business Insider reported that Under has finally started serving its first guests. If you can't book a table at the hottest restaurant below sea level, you can look at the photos taken inside to get an idea of the unique dining experience.
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Design Milk
Kinkára, a luxury camping retreat in Costa Rica previously reserved for private groups, opens to travelers this summer. The eco-luxe lodging spreads across 800 acres of the foothills of the Talamanca mountain range near Mount Chirripó, Costa Rica's tallest peak. Part of the award-winning Cayuga Collection resorts chain, the secluded resort was specifically designed to create an atmosphere of mindfulness and relaxation in the middle of nature.
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It’s in our genes. Our heritage. Ultimately our very being. And Boss Design’s DNA has been the inspiration for our latest luxury executive chair. The DNA lounge chair takes our core values of innovation and quality to produce four distinct levels of comfort. Quite simply, it’s the most accomplished range of upholstery we have ever produced.
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IIDA
Register for the new webinar "Advocating Like a Pro," brought to you by IIDA and ASID, which will share tips on getting involved in advocacy, handling meetings with lawmakers, and making an effective case for your ideas and profession. REGISTER NOW
IIDA
Submissions to the 2019 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards are now open. Winning projects will be featured in the December issue of Healthcare Design Magazine, on the IIDA website and social media, honored at a winners reception at IIDA Headquarters in Chicago, and celebrated throughout the year. LEARN MORE
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Grin seating has been enhanced to include worksurface, bar, and counter height stools, as well as guest seating options. This collection of solutions also includes lounge seating and a complementary ottoman, creating a robust offering. Grin offers a variety of solutions to fulfill workstyle needs and lifestyle comforts. Learn More
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Yahoo Finance
Most employees prefer to spend some time in an office (83%) over being fully remote, according to a new Clutch survey of 503 full-time employees.
In-office work helps employees collaborate with coworkers and feel included in the company's culture.
"Most work-from-home employees I know enjoy knowing there is a spot, even if not a designated spot, for them at the office when needed," said Bethany Babcock, owner of Foresite Commercial Real Estate, a commercial real estate brokerage firm in Texas. "The alternative sends the message that you belong at home, not here, and this isn't your office."
Businesses need to show all employees—both remote and in-office—that they are welcome. This means creating an office space that allows employees to thrive.
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Harvard Business Review
Customer experience and employee experience are now two of the driving forces of business. Independently, each function leads to valuable relationships—with customers and employees—but when CX and EX are managed together, they create a unique, sustainable competitive advantage. Companies should consider integrating the two disciplines and installing a Chief Experience Officer to lead the combined effort across the entire organization.
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Expand your scope or work with laboratory design projects! Partner with the lab furniture experts at Formaspace, serving market since 1981. As a leading American-made laboratory furniture manufacturer, they can help you leverage your interior design vision, knowledge, and experience to successfully bid on sophisticated lab projects.
Click here to view through recent lab design projects
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Inc.
Whether it's the need for boosting up your humility toward becoming a more effective leader or helping remove the career roadblocks that keep people from advancing, everything rises and falls on leadership.
More importantly, everything depends on making yourself a better leader—whatever it takes—whether you're a line manager or the CEO. And raising your own bar only happens when common sense turns into common practice.
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Forbes
Depending on which direction you are facing, the telecommuting pendulum is either swinging toward you or away from you. While some companies are reeling workers back to the mothership, even to all-the-rage, so-called agile workplaces, the fact remains that the majority of workers, 80-90% according to Global Workplace Analytics, would like the ability to work from home at least part of the time. Millennials are demanding it or going to companies that will accommodate their preferred work style.
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MarketWatch
Over the past year or so, thousands of people have become eligible to attend college at low or no-cost—and that's not thanks to a new government policy or a sudden drop in tuition levels.
It's because major employers from McDonald's to Disney have launched or expanded programs that allow some of their employees to attend certain colleges and take certain courses on the company's dime. Walmart announced this month that the retail giant would extend its educational assistance benefits program to high school students. Through the program, teens working at Walmart will have access to flexible schedules, free standardized test prep, and up to seven hours of free college credit.
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