Cini Boeri, the Italian architect and industrial designer who designed several showrooms and furniture collections for Knoll, died on September 9, 2020 at her home in Milan. She was 96 years old.
Remembering Cini Boeri
'Fog of War' Clouding Assumptions on Returning to Office, Expert Says
A Q&A with Savills’ Doane Kelly reveals that knee-jerk reactions to office occupancy, while understandable, won’t prevail once things clear up regarding the lasting effects of the pandemic.
MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on the defining designs of 2020
Building Lobbies Are Now the First Line of Defense Against COVID-19
One of the biggest unknowns about how to stop the spread of a disease in a building is how we can prevent sick people from entering the building in the first place.
Haworth CFO to retire, replacement named.
The chief financial officer at Haworth is retiring after 15 years of leadership and will be replaced by a longtime colleague.
Coronavirus: Steelcase owned Orangebox cuts 58 jobs at Nantgarw, Wales
The firm, which employs about 250 people in south Wales, said it was offering voluntary redundancies in the hope of avoiding compulsory lay-offs.
Planning for the Future Workplace and a Distributed Workforce
The lessons learned from the recent collective work-from-home experiment will play a critical role in guiding the journey back to the workplace across the globe. Because of the health crisis, companies are strategically rethinking everything about the office as we once knew it — from the physical space to the protocols, people, and organizational culture that define it.
Are offices dead? Not yet, but real estate power brokers are betting on a new strategy
Alums of real estate juggernauts Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are betting that the future of commercial real estate lies in not just selling office space, but designing and building it, too.
Three Effective Ways To Improve Building Ventilation
Is your building making people sick? The onset of the coronavirus has made the need for healthy buildings and better ventilation a top priority.
Pendulum Swinging Back Away From Open Offices Due To Pandemic
One of the biggest challenges is that there are few, if any, models for providers to follow as they entice users back.
What It's Like To Relocate An Office In The Midst Of A Pandemic
The firm liquidated old office furniture and gave a large amount of it away, even offloading items to a newly minted entrepreneur to make way for the new.
The link between wellbeing and green design is driving material innovation
One of the most interesting developments in the way we talk about the design of buildings in recent years is how the issue of wellbeing has found an overlap with environmental concerns.
Inscape Sales Drop 45% in First Quarter
Sales in the first quarter were 45.0% lower than the same quarter of last year. The decline in the first quarter is primarily due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in shutdown of many cities and states in the United States, which account for approximately 90% of the Company’s sales.
New Work: The changing face of the office
New Work – this rather vague catchphrase for the modern world of work actually poses crucial questions: How do we want to and how will we be able to work in the future?
ROOM Launches New Modular Meeting Rooms for the Modern Workspace
New York-based ROOM continues to reimagine the modern workspace with modular architectural solutions that give employees options for privacy.
The Office Environment: Which Workplace Designs Are Helping Create The Offices Of The Future?
Updating a workplace to incorporate the latest design trends can provide multiple benefits to just about any business.
How Covid-19 is altering the design of our homes and offices
ISRAEL21c asks an industrial designer, an interior designer and an architect to describe changes in the spaces where we live and work.
Arcadia’s Betwixt Collection
Designed by David Ritch and Mark Saffell of 5D Studio, the series is defined by an airy, geometric base comprised of delicate metal rods threaded together to create a striking visual.
Applying A Holistic, Health-Focused Design Approach To Built Environments
CallisonRTKL’s Jodi Williams shares how using health-focused design can create stronger and more resilient built environments.
Miami Company Introduces 'Virtual Coworking'
WeWork is piloting a program in New York that allows people to book workspaces by the hour or day. It's also allowing members to work out of any location, rather than a fixed location, for no additional cost.