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.
DLR Group has acquired Cleveland-based Westlake Reed Leskosky. The combined integrated design firm’s 1,000-plus employees will operate from 26 locations, including consolidated offices in several cities where each already has a presence.
In 2014, a plaster rosette fell from the 52-foot ceiling of the New York Public Library's grand Rose Main Reading Room. The library was already closed, but the accident prompted the largest renovation of the library's ceiling in its over 100 year history, a renovation that is nearly complete.
My teenage son can’t imagine a world without WIFI and is confused when I mention cassette tapes were commonly used to hold music. I suspect his children will be confused 20 years from now when he mentions that “cars used to have steering wheels.”
The automotive industry is changing fast. Until recently, CAVs (connected and autonomous vehicles) seemed like high-tech prototypes of the distant future. But they’ve actually been in development for many years. And to my pleasant surprise, that research and development has been ramping up this year.
Six-year-old Olive Sáenz has been "obsessed" with Minecraft for about a year, says her mother, Andrea Sáenz. "She spends hours building stuff, blowing stuff up, and building stuff again. She’s been pretty amazing at self-teaching."
But until this past summer, the video game was a solo experience for Olive, who is just now learning to read. Because she wasn’t able to communicate with other players she instead spent hours watching Stampy Cat’s popular YouTube videos, which serve as a Minecraft "how to" for beginners, and putting her own spin on challenges like constructing a roller coaster.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) named the winners of this year's Design Awards, handed out every two years to the project teams involved in the development of federal buildings. The awards program, which began in 1990, added a new category this year called the 10 Year Award, which this year honors buildings "substantially completed" within the decade between 1995 and 2005.
Montreal is in the midst of a healthcare building boom. Last year saw the opening of the city’s first mega-hospital, the 2 million-square-foot McGill University Health Centre. This year, an even larger project will be substantially complete. The $1.5 billion, 3.5 million-square-foot University of Montreal Health Centre (CHUM, for Centre Hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal) will consolidate three hospitals—Hôtel Dieu, Hôpital St.-Luc, and Hôpital Notre-Dame—into three interconnected towers on two downtown city blocks.
Designed by New York–based CannonDesign and local firm NEUF Architect(e)s, CHUM is currently the largest healthcare project under construction in North America. The first phase wraps up this year and includes the main portion of the hospital complex, the clinical ambulatory center, logistics center, pharmacy, laboratories, and underground parking. Phase two, scheduled for completion in 2021, will feature a learning center and library, auditorium, and finalization of the clinical offices.
No matter how bigger and better your business gets, you cannot care less for things that are related to your business, directly or indirectly. Your clients, customers, employees, partners and everyone else would like to know everything about the business before it could win an approval from them. And from everything, it is the address of the office that is evaluated first and foremost. Your office premises should show off construction and design in a way that would make every stakeholder and others take pride in them. This is not possible as long as your office is not constructed in line with the latest commercial architecture or does not incorporate the elements of trending designs, patterns and development. Read on to find out top three trends in commercial architecture that you should know.
In 1936 two architects—Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings, both from Indiana—set up a firm in Chicago, a city that would prove a fertile ground for their work. Three years on, John O. Merrill joined the firm, prompting a name change to Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Now you can travel through all those 80 years of SOM‘s practice with their Tumblr blog.
The market for sustainable design and construction continues to grow apace with the healthy overall market. And now, new standards are beginning to appear to cover markets beyond buildings, broadening the scope of environmental construction. However, shifting notions of what it means to be green have many in the industry, and their clients, struggling to keep up.
A few of IA’s 2016 interns share lessons learned in our studio and what they plan to take back to school.
The number of licensed architects in the U.S. continues to grow, as does the number of emerging professionals at their heels, according to the fifth-annual By the Numbers report from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) released today. The report features data on the state of architectural practice in 2015 gathered from NCARB’s member boards in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Last year saw 110,168 licensed architects practicing in the U.S., up 2 percent from 2014; this represents the fourth-consecutive year of growth. Meanwhile, the number of licensure candidates grew by 5 percent to an all-time high of 41,542 for the same period. The number of new enrollments in accredited architecture schools and the number of degrees awarded climbed 7 percent during the 2014–2015 school year from the prior year. However, the total number of students enrolled in these programs dipped 3 percent in 2015 from the previous academic year, continuing the steady decline that began in 2011.
Office design has come a long way from the fluorescent-lit cubicle farms of the past. Thanks to mobile technology, changing work styles and the growing influence of millennials, today’s workplaces are now sleek, employee-focused enclaves decked out with lifestyle amenities such as rooftop decks, gyms, coffee bars and lush green spaces.
Companies now see their office facilities not as a cost burden, but as a powerful competitive advantage. According to experts, a well-designed work environment can boost employee productivity, drive creativity and innovation, and help companies attract and retain top talent.
A net-zero energy building produces as much energy as it consumes. That's an admirable goal, but how do you get there? Most often, achieving net-zero involves some kind of renewable energy production to offset the building's energy consumption. But that can be expensive. We want to first bring down the energy consumption as much as possible so that renewable energy production systems make financial sense. That's what being “net-zero ready” means.
Eero Saarinen, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Thomas Heatherwick, Walter Gropius, Shigeru Ban, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry: If it seems like every architect of note has also designed a chair, it's because that's pretty much true. Why? In her new book Chairs by Architects (Thames & Hudson), art historian Agata Toromanoff says that chairs afford architects an opportunity to distill their techniques, innovations, and style into a new medium. Importantly, they also serve as a rite of passage.
Economists from the AIA, the National Association of Home Builders, and the Associated Builders and Contractors convened this week to deliver a midyear status update on the health of the construction sector. While recovery among the market sub-categories—commercial/industrial, multifamily, institutional, and single-family residential—has largely been uneven and will continue to be, the economist trio forecasts growth across the sectors through 2017.
“Revenue at architecture firms continues to grow, so prospects for the construction industry remain solid over the next 12 to 18 months,” said AIA chief economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, in a press release. “Given current demographic trends, the single-family residential and the institutional building sectors have the greatest potential for further expansion at present.”
Recently voted #1 city on the US News “Best Places to Live” list, Denver, Colorado might best be described as a teenage city quickly evolving into a mature metropolis. Currently experiencing a 5-year building boom with $2.5 billion in development, almost 3 million square feet of new office space, hotel rooms, and residential units are planned or under construction in Downtown Denver. From a burgeoning aerotropolis to new small, hip restaurants, to context-sensitive custom residences, the city’s skyline and urban fabric seem to shape-shift each month as urban in-fill closes the gaps between low, mid, and high-rises alike.
See the latest progress made at Apple Campus 2. Featuring stunning shots of the "spaceship", auditorium, r&d center, and more. Landscaping and other smaller structures are beginning to pop up throughout the campus. Recorded using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional.
Can architecture spur creativity? Universities are investing in big, high-tech buildings in the hope of evoking big, high-tech thinking.
Where once the campus amenities arms race was waged over luxury dorms and recreation facilities, now colleges and universities are building deluxe structures for the generation of wonderful ideas. They and their partners in industry are pouring millions into new buildings for business, engineering and applied learning that closely resemble the high-tech workplace, itself inspired by the minimally partitioned spaces of the garage and the factory.
Gensler clinched the number one spot for the fifth consecutive year in this year’s edition of the annual Top 300 Architecture Firms list, which is out now from Architectural Record. The list ranks U.S. companies based on revenue for architectural services performed in 2015, breaking out total architecture revenue, how much of that was domestic and international, percent of design revenue from architecture, and total design revenue in millions of dollars.
Gensler, which is based in San Francisco and is responsible for buildings including the Shanghai Tower, Incheon International Airport in South Korea, Airbnb’s San Francisco office, as well as the world’s first 3D-printed office, was the first firm to surpass $1 billion in revenue in 2014. Last year, Gensler increased that total revenue by over $100 million, bringing in a sky-high $1,181,030,000.
In “7 Questions with Margaret McDonald of HOK,” McDonald shares the latest trends in workplace design.
