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.
Michael’s current client experience includes a wide range of global organizations that are embarking on confidential projects in the FinTech, Software, Financial and Consulting sectors. Historically, he’s completed work with Spotify, Godiva, PwC, Bloomberg, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Pfizer and many more.
Global Design and consultancy firm NELSON has announced their intent to launch a design practice dedicated to TAMI companies (Technology, Advertising, Media, and Information Businesses). For the past two years, TAMI companies have been the fastest rising star in real estate markets across the country. Responding to the leaps and bounds in technological advances, these companies are converging in not only workstyle and space requirements, but disruptive innovation in their respective industries. NELSON’s tech clients include Google, Amazon, Oracle, Verizon and Cisco; and multiple companies in advertising giant Publicis Groupe, including Starcom, Mediavest, Digitas, Leo Burnett, Razorfish, and MSLGroup.
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.
The design partnership's founders talk about their work with BuzziSpace, Mohawk Group, and more.
KEM Studio, a design studio that specializes in architecture and industrial design, has been named the winner of this year’s Eames Good Design Challenge. Sponsored by Herman Miller and the John A. Marshall Company, the contest challenged approximately a dozen architecture and design firms in Kansas City, Missouri, to “upholster” an Eames molded plastic chair in a way that combined both comfort and style.
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.
Perkins+Will have completed the design of the new headquarters for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Intended to be a living laboratory and establish a model for the “office of the future,” the new ASID headquarters embodies innovative workplace environments where wellness, sustainability, collaboration, flexibility and new technologies were key drivers shaping the design.
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.
Programming is crucial to every design project, but particularly for the workplace. It drives the requirements of every project, from quantities of work stations to how people want to be organized. Typically, programming happens toward the beginning of a project, prior to or coincidentally with a visioning session. This session can include any and all client parties, across any level of any function with parties that are usually identified by the client, dictated by the size and culture of the organization: real estate teams, C-suites, engineers and human resources have all been part of this phase. These are the people who build the “must-have” list for a new office.
David Rockwell, FAIA, who leads the firm Rockwell Group based in New York, will be a NeoCon keynote speaker, presenting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, June 14. Rockwell’s prolific career has included interiors for numerous hotels and restaurants, as well as theater sets. He was the 1998 Designer of the Year, and his firm won four Interiors Awards from Contract over the past two years. In Milan in April, Rockwell exhibited his first furniture collection, Valet, for Stellar Works. Contract interviewed Rockwell, who has also designed a collection for Knoll, called Rockwell Unscripted, which debuts at NeoCon.
Curtis Knapp and Kay Sargent, IIDA, LEED AP, have joined the firm as senior vice presidents, and Senior Vice President Gordon Wright has taken a new role.
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.
Global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will announced today that Nelson\Nygaard, an internationally acclaimed transportation planning consultancy, has joined the organization. The strategic partnership will enable both companies to expand and diversify their worldwide mobility service offerings, providing a comprehensive package that includes everything from strategic master planning for cities and sites to architectural, interior, urban, and landscape design.
Sketching is a process of communication and expression, reflecting an individual’s hand and, at times, one’s personality: It’s an exaggerated signature.
Very little can be said about 2016 AIACC Lifetime Achievement recipient, Arthur Gensler, Jr. FAIA, FIIDA, RIBA that hasn’t already been heard or written in very prominent media publications. And, although this award seems an ideal and perfect measure of reflection on all the many successes Gensler, the man, has accomplished, well that’s just not his style. According to him, the credit should be attributed to a “constellation of stars”—a constellation comprised of thousands of stars within the world’s largest architecture firm.
I have recently completed an ultra-marathon of photo-shoots: 28 architectural offices in 28 days, in four capital cities.
Kasian announced the acquisition of modo, an award-winning Toronto interior design firm led by Chantal Frenette, ARIDO, IDC, LEED AP, and Scott Norwood, AATO. The team of modo designers and project managers will add bench strength to Kasian’s Toronto office to better serve local and national clients.
It’s has been said that good things come in threes. IA's Atlanta office design team learned that firsthand on February 25, at the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Georgia Chapter’s 2016 b.o.b. Awards. IA was recognized with awards for large and small corporate projects for digital creative agency, SapientNitro, in Miami and Santa Monica, California. And at the end of the evening, the small corporate project also garnered the 2016 b.o.b. Award, the equivalent of the design competition’s “Best in Show.”
SRAM Headquarters was captured in action over the course of one day with employees providing their perspective on their new Perkins+Will designed workplace. This is “One Day at SRAM” – their space, their story.
Business conditions at architecture firms softened modestly in January to start the new year. The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score of 49.6 indicates that just slightly more firms reported a decrease in firm billings than reported an increase for the month (a score over 50 indicates billings growth). This decline may be partially attributable to a surge of winter weather in many regions of the country, after what had previously been a relatively mild winter. Firms are still reporting that they have a decent amount of work in the pipeline. Inquiries into new projects remained strong in January, and the value of new design contracts continued to increase as well, albeit at a slightly slower pace than in recent months.
