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.
Time to introduce you to our life partners, the talented designers that make our living rooms so ridiculously comfortable and easy on the eyes.
When searching for a designer furniture brand, where is the first place you would look? Italy, the Netherlands maybe? What about if it had to be sustainable? How about Sweden… Well, when citizenM went in search of a brand that had to be iconic, intelligent, and above all really, really good looking, there was only one name we could think of: Vitra.
Much has been written about the growth of peer-to-peer platforms and the impact of the sharing economy on the hospitality industry—the so-called ‘Airbnb effect.’ In an era when travelers expect high design at lower cost, how can hotels compete?
Despite still strong fundamentals in hotel operating performance, the capital markets environment for the hotel sector has been going through choppy waters this year. A brief review of key investment metrics illustrates some of the challenges.
Tepid hotel investment activity continued in Q2 2016. U.S. hotel acquisitions totaled $6.5 billion in Q2 2016, down 50% year-over-year. Similarly, the H1 2016 total reflects a 55% decline from H1 2015.
Fortunately, the year-over-year drop in single-asset purchases was less severe. Buying activity of individual assets provides a better measure of investment momentum, and H1 2016’s $11 billion total reflected a more moderate drop of -33% compared to last year.
Although it opened in 2011, YOTEL New York feels like it belongs in 2084, the same year the science-fiction film Total Recall is set. Quintessentially futuristic, the original cult classic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger features robotic police officers, instant manicures, hovering cars, implanted memories, and skin-embedded cellphones. Its protagonist, Douglas Quaid, is a construction worker obsessed with vacationing on Mars.
Hotels are no longer just for sleeping and meeting. Millennials, who hold the interest of pretty much all brands these days just as Baby Boomers did for decades before them, are all about creating and selling experiences, so hotel brands—fearing they’ll lose them all to Airbnb—are attempting to up their game.
One way Marriott has made its move in this department is by partnering with Swedish furniture retailer IKEA in 2013 to create Moxy Hotels, a funky economy-tier brand concept chain that launched in Europe and is starting to pop up in the US. The move followed rumors in 2012 that IKEA was planning its own budget hotel chain to appeal to millennials.
I like the industrial-chic look, but still, I wondered: Why has it permeated so many restaurants, regardless of cuisine? Hoping for an answer that involved a secret society plot, I called a bunch of restaurateurs and designers to get the low-down on the stripped-down look.
Lodging Econometrics’ (LE) latest Global Construction Pipeline Trend Report shows the current worldwide pipeline at its highest levels ever recorded by LE with 11,196 projects and 1.9 million rooms.
What makes Millennials tick? Lots of businesses, AEC firms included, would like to know the answer to that question. That’s because, at 75.4 million strong, the 18–34 generation has just left Baby Boomers in the dust as the largest population group in America, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
When the rent-a-desk giant WeWork opened a flexible housing spin-off, WeLive, this January, it advertised pay-by-the-month furnished rentals for transient millennials. The apartment complex in the financial district of Manhattan comes complete with an arcade inside of the laundry area and an app for organizing community events. That same building has now added another option to its menu: hotel rooms.
NEW YORK CITY—In advance of the upcoming Baird Global Consumer Tech & Services Conference, Baird hotel analyst David Loeb, managing director who covers Hotel REITs & C-Corps, recently provided some insights on the state of the industry, what’s driving M&A and consolidation, and how the industry is faring against technological threats, as well as health and safety concerns like Zika and terrorism. The Baird event, held June 7-9, will bring institutional and private equity investor attendees together to hear presentations from executives representing more than 200 public and privately held companies across a range of sectors.
Lodging Econometrics’ latest United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report reveals that Texas is the U.S. state with the largest hotel development pipeline. The Lone Star state currently boasts 673 projects and 72,747 guestrooms in development.
Lodging Econometrics’ latest United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report shows that the U.S. hotel pipeline is still on the rise, increasing 15 percent in projects and 13 percent in guestrooms year-over-year—representing a gain for the 14th consecutive quarter. 1,356 projects and 174,996 guestrooms are currently under construction in the U.S., an increase of 239 projects or 21 percent. Projects scheduled to begin in the next year have increased 28 percent, with 2,047 projects and 234,638 guestrooms in the lineup. However, projects and guestrooms in early planning stages dropped 9 percent for the second consecutive quarter.
In partnership with Hospitality Design magazine, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) announced the winners of the 20th Annual IIDA/HD Product Design Competition at HD Expo 2016 on May 4. Belle by Fire Farm Lighting received the Eric Engstrom Best of Competition Award, and also took home an additional award in the Lighting: Individual Lamps/ Lighting Devices category.
Industrial designer and West Michigan native Joey Ruiter teamed up with Grand Rapids Chair Company for the third consecutive year for a bold new take on modern restaurant furniture, the Leo Collection. Always ahead of the curve, this rising star of the industrial design world won a Best of NeoCon Gold award just two years into his career and currently holds over 25 patents in furniture and transportation design.
Since bursting into the hospitality market nearly a decade ago, Airbnb has become a polarizing poster child for the sharing economy. Advocates celebrate the shift towards a new model of trust and neighborliness, while dissenters bemoan the impending damage to the hotel industry and a disruption in the equilibrium of available housing in heavily populated cities.
One of the world's most influential hoteliers and developers, Ian Schrager redefined nightclubs, invented the boutique hotel and is now rethinking luxury apartments. Dezeen spoke to Schrager about his collaborations with architects and designers including Arata Isozaki, Philippe Starck and Herzog & de Meuron (+ interview + slideshow).
Offices need to be built around people, rather than trying to control and corral employees, argues Jonathan Openshaw. We first started writing about the rise of ‘Bleisure’ (the convergence of business and leisure) back in 2009 at The Future Laboratory, and since then we’ve seen the boundaries between work and play dissolve drastically. ‘We’re seeing workplaces that are more intelligent, connected and human-orientated – a move from facilities management to hospitality’ explains Jeremy Myerson, co-founder, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. His comment hints at the convergence taking place in workplaces that are now as much about leisure, wellness and hospitality as they are about observation, quantification and efficiency.
Mark Barrell, Design Director at The Boss Design Group, talks to us about the crossover between the workplace and hospitality sectors. The Boss Design Group is a designer and manufacturer of office seating. Established in the UK in 1983, the company now operates multiple production facilities around the world and has supplied more than half of the UK’s FTSE 100 companies.
While we can appreciate the beauty of the buildings we create and the intelligence of the systems we define, ultimately these things are only successful if they help the people who will use them. Creating successful schools and hospitals is not simply about designing modern facilities with cutting-edge technology. It’s about listening to the pulse of the community that needs these spaces. Understanding its challenges, its economy, its health outcomes, its fundamental needs – and delivering the right solution for that specific community.
USGBC released its LEED in Motion: Hospitality report, which showcases tremendous industry growth in green building and defines the scale-up opportunities for the hospitality sector. More than 109 million square feet of hotel space is currently LEED-certified, and the report highlights some of the most impressive LEED-certified hotels throughout the world.
