Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the nation’s leading construction forecasters, is projecting that spending will increase just less than six percent for 2016, with next year’s projection being an additional 5.6% gain.
The AIA's monthly Architecture Billing Index reported a score of 52.6 for June, the fifth straight month that the index has remained positive, the Institute announced today. This mark is modestly lower than the 10-month high of 53.1 in May, but is still among the highest scores seen in the past year. The ABI is a leading economic indicator of construction activity in the U.S. reflecting the nine- to 12-month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending nationally and regionally as well as by project type. A score above 50 represents an increase in billings from the previous month (a score under 50 represents a contraction).
Design firm HDR has produced a short film about LA. Los Angeles is revitalizing its community, celebrating its rich culture while charting new history. Design is important in L.A., and we’re proud to be collaborating with our clients as part of the city’s exciting transformation. Whether it’s improving pedestrian walkways or expanding transit options, creating patient-centered hospitals or technologically advanced academic buildings, we’re part of improving a city on the move.
Imagine your future office. Before you get there, a parking space is reserved for your car. As you enter the building, you are greeted by name and directed to a free workstation. It knows your preferred light levels, temperature settings and even how many sugars you want in your cappuccino. Sound too futuristic? Well it’s already happening, and it’s a trend that’s gaining momentum. The Edge in Amsterdam is being hailed as the smartest building in the world, and we have a lot to learn from the way it’s implementing technology.
Organizations should actively support the idea of well-being and understand the connection between wellness and business success, Ware Malcomb’s newly appointed director of interior architecture and design Mary Cheval tells GlobeSt.com. We spoke exclusively with Cheval after the announcement of her appointment about her new role and how interior architecture and design are changing.
After 25 years in San Francisco, Studio O+A marks its first expansion with the opening of a New York City office location at 215 Park Avenue South. Neil Bartley—previously a senior project manager and design lead on projects such as ARTIS Ventures, Giant Pixel Corporation, and Yelp—will serve as director for the new office.
Architecture firm billings continued to improve in May, reaching the highest score in nearly a year. While billings have increased every month for the last four months, the May score of 53.1 indicates that even more firms are now experiencing improving conditions. Inquiries into new projects were also strong in May and the value of new design contracts continued to increase, although at a modestly slower pace than in April.
For 13 years now, the AIA has reserved a special recognition for projects that do a lot with a little, whether it's cash or space. This year, it's bestowed honors on a reading nook in a public library, a roving dental studio, and a remote cabin, among others. In an era of finite resources, these designs show how efficiency breeds clever design.
Julie Maggos, director of environmental graphics for IA, oversees the discipline, also known as experiential graphic design, that integrates a story narrative with the built environment to create a memorable experience. Clients increasingly leverage EGD features to support, and in some case develop, an organization’s brand and IA uses a range of materials–from coffee beans to crayons–to help tell their story. Sometimes, we even get to carve it in stone.
The recently completed New Balance World Headquarters just earned LEED Platinum certification , and it's the first building of its kind in the U.S. to earn points in indoor environmental quality under the USGBC rating system. The building was designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, who worked in collaboration with Transwestern and John Moriarty Associates to deliver a remarkable, energy-efficient design using sustainable construction techniques, regionally-sourced materials and water-conserving plumbing.
The AIA's monthly Architecture Billings Index ended the month of May with a score of 53.1, its highest mark in nearly a year, thanks to the robust multifamily housing market and solid demand for commercial and retail properties. This reading is sharply up from April's mark of 50.6, and is roughly on par with the year-earlier period. The ABI is a leading economic indicator of construction activity in the U.S. reflecting the nine- to 12-month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending nationally and regionally as well as by project type. Any score over 50 represents an increase in billings.
How a brain scientist collaborates with NBBJ to uncover our perceptions of designed space.
In the face of a growing number of complex and interconnected global problems, more and more people within the architecture and design community are finding ways to leverage design to make a difference in the world. Alejandro Aravena’s 2016 Pritzker Prize win is a good illustration of the increasing appetite for this kind of approach within the field, and architects around the world are taking up the challenge of designing solutions that address complex issues such as climate change, population growth, rapid urbanization, economic development and human health.
It's not uncommon for creative individuals to branch out to other design mediums and trades. Therefore, it is no surprise that some of the world's most well-known architects and designers have segued into crafting products and, more specifically, furniture. Like Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand before them, these seven architects have collaborated with furniture manufacturers to design products that are reminiscent of their architectural aesthetics.
How INARCH became VOA New York. We started INARCH in 1997 with just two people. It was a test to see if I could actually run a business on my own with a couple of clients that were willing to take the leap and work with me, though they had worked with me for a long time. It was my first foray into that.
Though specific plans to develop the site of the failed Chicago Spire remain a mystery, designers at the architectural firm Gensler have imagined the high-profile waterfront location as an iconic, mixed-use, mega-tall attraction. Taking top honors in an internal company-wide competition, the concept is known as Gateway Tower. Retaining the same 2000-foot height as the original Spire design, the Gensler concept trades the twisting whimsicality of Calatrava’s narwhal tusk for more of a Chicago-style aesthetic expressed through structural X-bracing.
The corporate office landscape has continuously evolved to meet market demands and enable companies to compete for work, real estate, and talent. Decades ago, the sprawling suburban campus was the corporate office solution — think classic campuses like Connecticut General outside of Hartford and the Texaco campus in Rye, N.Y. Years later, corporations began to gravitate toward a real estate model that relied on leasing developer-owned space. Today, a new corporate real estate model, influenced by the combined history of corporate campuses and leased office space, has emerged to better meet the needs of global corporations and their changing workforce.
A deep-dive into the architectural details of a project reveals the original design intent of the Architect.
Whether taking an automobile for a spin or attending workshops at the Apple Store, test drives have helped the modern consumer understand innovation. Gensler, too, has applied trial runs to its workplace business. When moving its own staff into a new office, the global design firm treats that space “as a laboratory that demonstrates our principles and our research,” says Andy Cohen, co-CEO of the company with Diane Hoskins.
Most of us think of modern buildings as inert structures – the shell for all the activity that goes on inside. Advances in science and technology, however, are creating new types of biological and metabolic materials which are essentially turning a growing number of buildings into living, breathing organisms.
