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.
Where does Detroit’s most recognized real estate company work? Located in between the First National Building and the Vinton Building, Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock purchased the handsome Metropole Building in 2013. The four-story building had been largely vacant for 47 years, except for the Bangkok Crossing restaurant on the ground floor.
Designers are optimists. They find the good in a space and work to enhance it, creating a positive impact on its inhabitants. The goal: to go beyond productivity and provide inspiration. Interface wants to celebrate these positive spaces.
The Japanese designer Oki Sato is known for producing a tremendous amount of work each year—from design objects to lifestyle products to exhibitions—through his design studio, Nendo. Now, Sato and his 30- person team are increasing not only the quantity, but also the scale of their work. In its first foray into urban planning, Nendo has designed a massive public plaza near Kyoto, with a stage, park, bike rental station, and jungle gym housed in a series of stepped saucers reassembling local topography.
Sarah Buhr visits Adobe's Gensler designed bay area headquarters to talk design and experience the office culture.
Squarespace is known for its bold and iconic brand, and for helping the masses build sleek, professional websites. /react-text
Like the restrained, minimalist vibe that their brand conveys, the company's office spaces are equally stark and striking.
When Beinfield Architecture set out to create a new headquarters for travel search engine Kayak, it turned out that client and architect both had movement on the brain.
Fabio Marins Arquitetura was tasked with creating a space to house film production company Corazon Filmes in São Paulo, Brazil, that spans 125 square meters. The double-height space features expansive windows and an interior metal structure, a characteristic of the Modulo Alto de Pinheiros Building, gives it an industrial vibe.
We need more than 140 characters to describe Twitter's Manhattan office.
The social media platform company, which employed 3,860 people around the world as of 2016, first moved to this Chelsea, Manhattan office, in 2015. Today, more than 400 Twitter employees work there. Out of all of the company's 30-plus offices around the world, it's the second-largest office after the San Francisco headquarters.
Recently, Business Insider took a trip to the office to see if it was hashtag-worthy.
On, the young, successful running shoe brand, keeps employees on their toes in the company's new headquarters in Zurich: while working environments usually seek to shorten paths, the On team moves around along a central aisle in an office space of over 100 metres. There are no partitions or attributed workspaces. Employees clock up a total distance of two to three kilometres daily in a setting that promotes intercommunication unlike any conventional office layout. This dynamic environment thrives on emotions and calls for a sense of comfort and well-being – for sofas which are at home in offices and office chairs that are also perfect for the home office. Cross-functionality is part and parcel of Vitra's comprehensive product portfolio, which is why the On office is furnished entirely with Vitra furniture.
In the growing Austin technology industry, Bazaarvoice had outgrown its current space. Its environment lacked the capacity to accommodate growth as well as support the way its people wanted to work. Culture, a critical component at Bazaarvoice, was a concern among employees who feared the future office would not capture the startup energy that defined the company’s history and values. At the same time, Bazaarvoice needed to make cost effective decisions, balancing its future space, location, and building decisions in a manner that exceeded its employees’ expectations while demonstrating prudent real estate planning.
The new year brings a new home, new name and new focus for Conagra. The food conglomerate changed its name to Conagra Brands and moved its global HQ from Omaha, Nebraska, to downtown Chicago.
Conagra's offices inside Merchandise Mart total over 168K SF on one floor. That footprint is equivalent to three football fields and enough space to bring together 790 employees in marketing, legal and finance from Conagra’s grocery, frozen foods and snack operations. Perkins+Will associate principal Eric Mersmann said designing an office with such a large floor plate presented some unique challenges.
The term “tech office” increasingly describes a workplace with a laid-back and fun vibe, no matter the industry. The early 2000s saw high-profile companies like Microsoft and Google lead the charge in promoting fun, colorful and energetic office environments—complete with unconventional perks like slides and games rooms—and other industries took notice.
When Amegy Bank began its search for space to house a retail branch and wealth management suite in downtown Houston, the historic and newly renovated Esperson buildings offered an unusual opportunity to create a new aesthetic for the bank. Constructed in 1927 and 1941, the combined Niels and Mellie Esperson Buildings were not only an identifiable landmark, but offered the unique advantage of ‘one stop shopping’ for bank customers. Amegy could place an ATM at the tunnel level (accessible to the bustling lunch crowd), a retail space at street level, and a wealth management suite on the 13th floor, all connected by the same elevator bank.
The company just scored a Petal certification from the Living Building Challenge. Next on the agenda: achieving zero waste by 2020—and maybe convincing other tech companies to follow its lead.
Barcelona-based studio Appareil integrated furniture into the walls to open up this creative co-working space, specifically designed to suit the needs of architects and designers.
The name La-Z-Boy is synonymous with comfort. The Monroe, Michigan-based company has been bringing relaxing settings into homes since 1927. Fast-forward 90 years and you’ll find a company with a worldwide reach, more than $1 billion in revenue, and a portfolio stretching well-beyond the iconic recliner.
Stantec has completed the interiors for Fort Lauderdale-based Valley Forge Fabrics, the global leader in hospitality upholstery fabrics. The 73,000 sf space boasts the largest performance textile archive in the world with more than one million items, a state of the art fabric-testing laboratory and in-house seamstress and printed fabric production areas. "Valley Forge is a household name within the hospitality industry and they pride themselves in creating beautiful, welcoming spaces in the world's top hotels," said interior designer Barbara Savage, senior associate at Stantec's Miami office. "In this new space, we're giving their staff the same experience."
When your offices are also a display of your abilities in design and architecture, you’ve got to bring your A game to the project. And that’s what the global architecture and design firm Gensler did when it moved and redesigned its New York offices. Spanning five floors of a Broadway address, Gensler New York glows red from the exterior and thrums with the same hot intensity inside. A striking central staircase anchors the offices, while surfaces — covered in slate bricks, warm woods, gleaming floors, and vivid pops of Gensler’s signature reds — wrap the workspace with a dramatic-yet-modern flair.
IA recently completed a new workplace for Scotiabank in Toronto, designed to support the financial firm’s agilists, engineers, and technology developers, who in turn work to support more than 23 million customers in over 55 countries. To enhance productivity and attract top engineering and technology talent, the space, dubbed the Digital Factory, functions as a collaborative team space and showcases Scotiabank’s commitment to its staff. The design encourages an environment where staff can be adventurous, empowered, and challenged.
Chicago’s storied basketball and hockey franchises have completed a major investment in the United Center that will ensure the arena, which opened in 1994, remains one of the nation’s premier sports facilities for decades to come. HOK was the lead architect on the east addition project, with McHugh Construction serving as the general contractor.
