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In tune with the site and biophilic design principles, ZGF creates
a new USACE office.
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Designers select their favorite office furnishings and solutions.
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Microsoft Vienna in Vienna, Austria by INNOCAD
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Confidential Multimedia Entertainment Company in New York by FXFOWLE
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22squared in Atlanta by Gensler
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XAL Competence Center in Graz, Austria by INNOCAD
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The furniture company establishes a new European presence in a light-filled German penthouse
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Interior designer Christine Hart of VOA selects recent products that coincide with the changing face of the workplace
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One Best of Competition, seven Best of Category projects, and an additional 13 projects
received Honorable Mentions from more than 100 projects from Mexico and
Central and South America
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Two state agencies lead by example
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SmithGroupJJR helps
a construction company achieve net zero despite the Arizona heat
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Perkins+Will trades in its labyrinthine Atlanta office for a light, lofty, and green one
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Cohesive design details accentuate
the Dutch energy provider’s office
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Perkins+Will designs a culturally relevant communications workspace in Mumbai, India
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A new office in Thailand follows feng shui principles and reflects local craftsmanship
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INNOCAD—an Austrian firm with worldly sensibilities—designs imaginative headquarters
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STUDIOS Architecture breaks a pharmaceutical giant free from interior constraints
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Two artists design boutique-style offices that support hoteling, conference room rentals, and standard leasing
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Lauren Rottet, founder of Rottet Studios, connects corporate spaces to hotels
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NBBJ designs a LEED platinum campus with a community feel
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Knoll brings its legacy—and its insight on distributed work—forward with a smart remix of its headquarters
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An architecture firm designs its own office within the confines of a high-rise lobby in downtwon Los Angeles
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With plywood, humor, and a lot of creativity, Sid Lee Architecture redefines the look of a workplace for Red Bull's office in The Netherlands
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Montreal design firm id+s designs an office that gives video game producer THQ a competitive edge
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The company marks its 100th anniversary while focusing on the future
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A rooftop deck adds a new dimension to the office life of a venerable ad agency
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Ingersoll Rand gets a new space that is both worker and environmentally friendly
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iCrete's offices in Hollywood designed by Felderman Keatinge + Associates
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Confidential Trading Floor in Chicago designed by Perkins + Will
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GKV designs a new space that exudes style without sacrificing function
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Johnson Chou, founder of Johnson Chou, Inc., in Toronto, Canada
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Former use: Prussian military uniform factory
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An Internet giant captures the zeitgeist of the young and nimble
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With smart material manipulation, Johnson Chou
transforms an otherwise mundane space into the
understated-yet-lively Toronto offices for Red Bull
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Creatively adapting and preserving an historic Melbourne train shed
into contemporary open offices required BVN Architecture to rethink
the entire structure
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The redesigned executive floor at a global financial services headquarters located near Philadelphia merges luxury styling with artistic sculptures
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H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture designs a sustainable building for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas that is emblematic of its mission
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A new broadcast media headquarters targets three LEED® Gold ratings on Toronto’s waterfront
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Touted as the most energy efficient office building in Canada, Enermodal establishes a benchmark
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A current renovation by VOA Associates at one Washington, D.C.-based office building aims to preserve history while allowing for the evolution of design
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With both refined and workmanlike materials and careful consideration, Dake Wells Architecture elevates the form and function of KLF Architectural Systems’ compact office/showroom space
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It’s hard to jump when times are tough, but that’s just what Christopher Nieto did when his firm, the Phoenix studio of Shepley Bulfinch, purchased The Link and repurposed it as his new office
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Jump Studios humanizes Bloomberg’s London offices
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HKS Commercial Interiors designs a winning prototype to integrate three existing, Dallas-based CB Richard Ellis offices into one
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Darden Restaurants gathers its corporate employees under one roof in Orlando, Fla., with a sustainable design by Perkins+Will
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HOK designs its own efficient, eco-friendly New York headquarters to superbly illustrate how the firm practices what it preaches
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LUX Design offers Toronto-based production studio reactiv post a sleek and modern office design on a dime
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The Moderns’ New York studio buzzes with activity, creativity, and inspiration
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The latest issue highlights top trends and strategies in corporate office interior design
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Group Goetz revamps a 1980s facility to create highly efficient offices for Foley & Lardner in Washington, D.C.
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Koning Eizenberg creates a collegial workspace for Thornton Tomasetti in Los Angeles
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A playful yet purposeful office in Mountain View, Calif., designed for Red Hat by IA Interior Architects, sets the stage for global success
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Contract magazine's 2011 Inspiration Awards winners, announced at a gala ceremony at WGBH public broadcasting headquarters in Boston on April 6, set an example in socially responsible design
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200 Fifth Avenue in New York designed by STUDIOS Architecture
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One Shelley Street in Sydney, Australia, designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects
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U.S. Olympic Committee, USA House, 2010 Winter Games, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, designed by Atlas Architects and Allan Bell Design
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LightFold - One Kearny Lobby, San Francisco, designed by IwamotoScott Architecture
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Look up in the air! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s the new Lufthansa A380 First Class Cabin, designed by Priestmangoode.
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Submissions for The 32nd annual award from Contract magazine now due October 1.
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Gunderson Dettmer in Redwood City, Calif., reinvents itself—in theory and in practice—in a new office designed by the San Francisco office of HOK
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There are a significant number of buildings in the repositioning market today, and an ever-increasing interest from developers to create highly marketable and financially viable building assets.
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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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