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.
WeWork, the global shared workspace provider that rents office space to freelancers, entrepreneurs and startups, recently opened a new european location in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Located a short walk from the city center, WeWork – Metropool offers members panoramic views of the Amsterdam canals along with convenient access to restaurants, nightlife, and leisure.
David Bers Architecture has developed the new coworking offices of The Yard located in New York City. Through years of design research and member input we’ve struck a perfect balance of office size, privacy, and technology that works best for the widest variety of business needs. A yard member can expect the same contemporary, clean, efficient and versatile space to work at any location.
While coworking spaces began as places for freelancers and startups to rent a desk and gain an office-like community, the industry has become a big business in and of itself. WeWork, arguably the best-known network of coworking spaces received a (likely inflated) $10 billion valuation in 2015. Meanwhile NeueHouse, a "private work collective" based in Manhattan, raised $25 million—and has used the investment to open its Hollywood outpost inside the landmarked CBS Radio Building and Studio.
Twenty years ago, the goal was to get the job, then work your way up Mad Men style to the office on the 30th floor. Now people on average — not just millennials — stay at their jobs only 4.4 years. As workers redefine the goal line from the corner office to autonomy and work-life balance, you can bet the landscape of the office will drastically change. We already are seeing it with the rapid emergence of coworking offices everywhere. However, it’s not just coworking, it’s the motivation behind coworking — autonomy, independence, choice and meaning — that is changing the face of the workplace overall.
I know what you’re thinking… “My home office is just fine. There’s no reason that I should join a coworking space,” and you may be right, but imagine for a second what life might be outside of the house. Really reflect on your current situation and ask yourself if you’re really as productive as you could be while working in your underwear 50 paces from your bed. Having a hard time picturing it? No problem! That’s what this post is all about.
2016 will be a banner year for the design of coworking spaces. Here are some of my predictions.
Helpfulness is the key and what drives it is people getting together and that time builds social capital. It's that simple.
WeWork has met its aggressive expansion goals for 2015, according to new numbers the startup published Monday. Throughout the last year, the company, which leases office coworking space, has added 40 new locations and 25,000 members. It has also hired about 800 new employees.
There’s a reason today’s hottest talent and most promising minds aren’t jumping ship at their beloved startup to join the ranks at larger, more established organizations. They’re staying put because they love their scrappy, do-what-needs-to-be-done culture and aren’t willing to risk a move that might necessitate wearing ties and wingtips — even if that move comes with a great paycheck or newfound security.
More and more Americans are turning to freelance employment; in fact, by some accounts, it's now reached 34% of the workforce. These workers are looking for productive spaces to conduct their businesses. When your home isn't conducive to concentrating and cafes are too loud and crowded, where is a freelance professional supposed to work? One major solution to this growing problem is coworking spaces--communal offices that are shared by new businesses, digital companies, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.
By now, coworking is a standard concept among city dwellers. Once a hip, new trend among the millennial crowd, it is now arguably mainstream, with an estimated 781 coworking spaces throughout the US, according to a 2013 report — a considerable increase from the very first of its kind, which opened only 10 years ago. A simple Google search illustrates the dense concentration of these spaces within cities: there are some 76 coworking offices in San Francisco alone, representing almost 10 percent of the entire pool of such facilities nationwide. This is not to say that every urbanite regularly uses a coworking facility, but it is likely that if they were to be stopped on the street, they could not only explain it, but tell you where the nearest one is. The same cannot be said for most rural communities, towns, villages, and small cities across the country.
The Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) inaugurates the GSAPP Incubator with its first season of members. The GSAPP Incubator is an initiative for the school’s alumni, providing a collaborative environment for exploring new ideas and developing innovative projects that encompass culture, technology and the city. The co-working space encourages discovery and an open exchange among a diverse group of participants engaging in topics and interdisciplinary methods that expand the possibilities of architecture. Directed by Assistant Professor David Benjamin, the Incubator is located at 231 Bowery along with the New Museum’s NEW INC.
