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.
While the concept of standing desks is still a new one in education, there are examples across the country of schools moving away from the traditional "sitting all the time" approach to a standing and moving environment.
When we embark on a new project, the aim is to gather feedback from key stakeholders and multiple user groups to ensure our design meets the needs of our client. Arguably, one of the most important voices is that of the end user, or the student.
Over the past decade we’ve seen a shift in the types of spaces students prefer. At the onset of every project we ask the simple question “how do you learn best?” and we continually hear three common factors that can be creatively weaved into our final design solution.
Did you earn your college degree back in the 20th century? Then perhaps you remember a freshman History of Ideas lecture at 8am—the one you sat through with 300 other sleepy students. Your professor stood at a podium and chalked words on a blackboard while students scribbled notes and dozed. Remember the card catalog at the library? Call slips? Typewriters? Maybe you had a pager to keep in touch with friends. Or, perhaps you had to rely on pay phones or the wall-mounted phone in your dorm room.
Ubiquitous, easily accessible technology was a critical element for this school of medicine’s new multi-story facility built on top of an existing building. The 16 classes had to be able to support different types of learning and instruction, from lectures and collaborative projects to individual study and research. Writable surfaces were used as often as possible to maximize the working space; and carefully integrated room schedulers and key card access ensure the rooms are used efficiently. Technology also played a key role up front: the school used DIRTT’s 3D ICE® flythroughs to fully understand how their space would look… and as a powerful fundraising tool to offset construction costs.
The new Global and International Studies Building defines an important cultural and academic crossroads at the heart of campus. Home to the new School of Global and International Studies and many of the language, literature and culture studies programs in IU’s College of Arts and Sciences, the new building provides flexible spaces for teaching and learning that extend beyond the classroom to foster collaboration and inter-disciplinary education.
