When Benjamin Pardo asked renowned industrial designers Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger to design a new furniture system for Knoll, no one was more surprised than the designers themselves
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National Council for Interior Design Qualification lives its mission of design excellence in a new office space designed by the Washington, D.C. office of Perkins+Will.
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A Q&A with Dr. Marie Puybaraud, director of global workplace innovation for Johnson Controls, about the generational challenges facing designers of corporate workspaces today.
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What office design characteristics are needed for today’s challenging corporate environment?
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Hickok Cole Architects turns the lobby of 1050 K Street in Washington, D.C., into a world-class photography gallery, featuring the work of the legendary Ezra Stoller
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CBT Architects turns a tired Boston office tower into a Class A property with a stunning lobby that speaks to its namesake public square
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Ater Wynne's new modern, collaborative work environment, designed by Yost Grube Hall Architects, gives employees motivation to go to work.
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New offices with a contemporary flair by TPG Architecture bring this Boston-based ad agency into the 21st century.
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The annual industry expo is poised to be the most comprehensive yet. What can attendees expect?
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In a joint venture, Leo A. Daly/LAN and PageSutherlandPage have designed a new Houston office for the General Service Administration that combines sustainability and a welcoming community image.
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Behnisch Architekten designs a transparent, state-of-the-art headquarters that perfectly encapsulates the goals of consumer goods giant Unilever
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IA designs a first-class, hyper-efficient, and eco-friendly headquarters for the Bancolombia in Medellín, Colombia
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Digitas Health may sound like the name of a ho-hum healthcare clinic, but Kling Stubbins made sure the Philadelphia advertising firm looks the part of urban cool
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A Q&A with M Moser design director Bill Bouchey to discuss his
goals and design aspirations, as well as the current trends in corporate design.
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Contemporary styles showcase enhancements in texture, clean forms, and colorful palettes with metallics.
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Microsoft Corp. expands beyond its home base in Redmond, Wash., into office space designed by CollinsWoerman in a mixed-use complex in the heart of Bellevue
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Designed by Cary Bernstein Architect with the mission to make every element exceptional, San Francisco-based One & Co. is poised to shape the future of industrial design
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Shubin + Donaldson gives a Los Angeles warehouse residential character and scale
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The need to optimize office real estate, paired with today’s on-the-go work style, means traditional office workstation designs are on their way out.
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Efficiency trumps entitlement in law office design, as law firms face the realities of the new economy.
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Traces of California style and Dutch contemporary art do well to make employees forget that they work in a government office.
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Eco-friendly designs, bold colors, and metal and mesh were prominent at Milan 2010.
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The interior designer today is concerned not only with determining furniture, furnishings, colors, materials, and finishes, but also with organizing and predicting basic concepts of work organization and traffic flow for large corporate or institutional entities.
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Innovative surfacing material applications and city views contrast against a collection of Japanese and Native American artifacts in this eco-friendly San Francisco office.
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A visionary rethinks the way we work and offers insight on managing people and technology. (January 1989)
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What the pencil did for communications, the microprocessor will do for the office in the ’80s.
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These 11 new materials and technologies offer a glimpse into where innovation is taking us.
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The North American landscape of contract interiors of the past 50 years continues to unfold the concept of the Schnelle brothers’ “Burolandschaft,” or open office plan.
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Woods Bagot’s interiors for Eversheds mark a radical departure from typical law firm design, and elevate a BREEAM Very Good rating to a BREEAM Excellent rating in the process.
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The lofty green goals of law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld are achieved in a sky-high, LEED Gold-certified Manhattan headquarters, designed by Butler Rogers Baskett
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True to its mission, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association commissions a new headquarters building that sets a positive example for urban development
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Michielli + Wyetzner Architects designs efficient, sustainable, and ultra-flexible New York offices for AECOM—in synch with its own work and work ethics
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tvsdesign digs deep to deliver a stellar platform for environmental education and sustainable design at Herman Miller’s new LEED CI Platinum showroom—the first building of its kind in the City of Angles.
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Female Designers Comment (1970): While they acknowledge that desks designed exclusively for females are economically unsound, four top female designers think that desk designs should take into account distinctive feminine needs.
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From June 1970: Robert Propst, president, Herman Miller Research Corporation, Ann Arbor, Mich., explores many of the psychological and physiological considerations of workplace functions and how they affect workplace design.
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Generational differences and sustainability play a major role today in workplace design.
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Contract magazine presents a look at the evolution of design over the last half decade in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
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What Designers Need To Know About Lighting
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What colors will be popular this year, and what will be driving their
popularity?
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Autodesk, Inc. exemplifies using IPD strategy to complete two redesign
projects.
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A visual montage of our 2010 winning projects
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In our 50th year of publication, Contract proudly presents the winners of the 31st Annual Interiors Awards Competition.
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From Hollywood cowboys to global crusaders, the partners of Graft have gone far
in their 12 years of practice
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Art Gensler, collaborator in chief, is a constellation's shining star.
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"With every job, we try to forget what we've done before and start from zero," says Giorgio Borruso. "The goal is to develop a signature for the client rather than ourselves."
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After the economic
meltdown that touched virtually every corner of the world over the past year,
the surviving players in the financial industry have begun to reinvent
themselves to survive and flourish in the new global climate. And the design of
a small office by Gensler for a financial start-up firm in San Francisco
reflects a fresh point of view for a new era of investing.
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Sometimes the right building
design can spur its occupants to a new, better way of working. That was Cannon
Design's aim when it scouted out The Power House in St. Louis as its new, LEED
Gold-certified office, seeking a more flexible, open, and sustainable way of
working.
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Lighting designer Leni Schwendinger recently spoke with Contract magazine to
discuss the importance of light in design and how it can be utilized to
influence and enhance any commercial project.
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Leigh Stringer, vice president at HOK, took a few minutes to meet with Contract
magazine to discuss some of her expertise, as well as highlight some of the
ideas proposed in her new book, The Green Workplace.
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An excerpt from Chapter 9: Tranformative Design, The Green Workplace:
Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom
Line by Leigh Stringer, vice president, HOK, LEED.
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The overriding idea at
Wurk—and all of the upscale amenities it encompasses—is not about work in a
literal sense.
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To accommodate the tremendously long
hours the Medicines Company staff works, HLW developed a design solution that
blurred the line between home and office while still promoting efficiency and
dedication.
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Comcast set out to change this staid perception of the old-school cafeteria with Ralph'sCafé, the employee eatery set in the company's stunning new 51-storyheadquarters.
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For the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at Pioneer Middle School in
DuPont, Wash., lessons aren't just presented in the classroom. Thanks to a
design from DLR Group, the classrooms themselves are lessons in
sustainability.
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