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 modern workplace has changed dramatically over the past several decades, shifting from private offices to collaborative open-plan spaces and adapting to technological innovations and increasingly mobile employees. Clive Wilkinson Architects, the California-based firm behind some of the highest-profile work spaces in recent years, including Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, has created a concept for the future of working.
See what's new at HOK Product Design, LLC, which engages designers who use design thinking to create innovative products for the built environment.
According to BOMA’s 2015 Office Experience Exchange Report, the average cost of unused space in the U.S. is $25 per square foot or more. Imagine that a company’s entire real estate portfolio is 40% vacant—as was the case with a Gensler client who had multiple locations around the globe.
We recently spoke with John Mack, Senior Partner at HLW, the New York City-based architecture firm with a substantial office design portfolio. He tells us about what collaboration in the contemporary office landscape looks like and how the firm works to help clients create an environment which matches the unique needs of each organization.
It’s 4:30 in the morning, and you are just heading to bed after polishing your latest project. The client meeting starts in three hours and you have yet to go home, change, and come back to whip up a quick presentation. What you don’t realize in the wee hours of the day is that excellent design will get you nowhere without a compelling presentation. How do we convey our façade intention to a client who has never heard of a detailed wall section? How do we convince government officials to allow the development of air rights above a listed building? How do we demonstrate to our future employer that we are the candidate of their dreams?
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A photo-essay of four recent industry showrooms designed by Gensler.
LEO A DALY announced that Irena Savakova has joined its Washington office as Director of Design. In this role she will lead a world-class design team in completing complex architectural projects for a variety of clients.
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has released its third quarter Interior Design Billings Index (IDBI).
The sheer size of Gensler—5,000-plus staffers spread across 46 offices in 16 countries—is one of the things that makes the firm so unique. But what makes a firm of such vast size work is its entrepreneurial structure. “We are a self-governing, self-sustaining firm with a rotating leadership,” explains co-CEO and co-regional managing principal Andy Cohen. “It’s an incredible collaborative team—it’s not just one person at the helm.” North American co-regional managing principal Robin Klehr Avia elaborates on the beauty of the collective approach: “We believe in a constellation of stars. Any one of our 24 design partners could have their own firm and be honored at the Interior Design Hall of Fame, but then they would not have the type of collaboration they have here at Gensler. People put their egos aside and do great work as a result of that.”
Architecture firm NBBJ moved in the 250 High project in downtown Columbus this summer, and the design goal for its office was to create “an ecosystem of interrelated settings that provide users with a range of spaces that support various work modes.”
Montreal-based architectural studio Lemay, founded in 1957, has acquired locally based interior design firm Andres Escobar & Associates (AE&E).
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) released the third quarter Interior Design Billings Index (IDBI)on November 16, 2015. Billings by design firms ticked up slightly in September compared to June’s IDBI score of 57.1. The ASID indices are centered on 50 percent; above 50 indicates expansion and below 50, contraction. Based on the IDBI three-month moving average, billings have been in positive territory since the third quarter of 2011, and September’s score indicates positive revenue growth.
His forward-thinking, futuristic designs have been well-documented on Design Milkand now the multi-hyphenated designer Karim Rashid lets us into his workspace to get a sense of not only where he works, but his process. His colorful wares dot his office surroundings letting him and his staff live with the designs giving better perspective on future ideas.
International design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman has announced that it will acquire ForrestPerkins as of January 1, 2016.
During the early years of my design career, companies reacted to financial upswings by rolling out growth strategies. When business boomed, corporations asked for bigger offices, retailers sought larger stores in more prominent locations, and airports looked to accommodate a greater number of passengers. Design firms interpreted upticks in the market and rosy outlooks for economic growth as signs that work was about to start pouring in. Our output directly correlated to the health of the global economy.
Design Milk visited New York City to check in on the Union Square studio of architect and industrial designer Marc Thorpe who manages to bridge the gap between architecture, design, and technology. Collaborating with the likes of Moroso, Bernhardt Design, Target, and so many more, keeps this firm continually producing cutting edge work that will probably stay ingrained in your mind. In this edition of Where I Work, let’s take a look around office of Marc Thorpe Design, where you might spot an adult beverage on the desktop and perhaps some Jay Z playing in the background.
Washington, D.C.–based BBGM has acquired the Scottsdale, Arizona–based design firm MONOGRAM, whose office will now be called MONOGRAM at BBGM. A boutique studio design firm, MONOGRAM focused on luxury hospitality and resort design, with projects in such locations as Hawaii, Aruba, and Dubai.
