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Process: Revving Up with Revit

Utilizing BIM for a high-profile commercial interiors project reaped big dividends for Microsoft and SmithGroup



The 21st-Century Library

As the pace of change in modern life accelerates, library design is changing too.



Designing for Millennial Employees: What Does the Next Generation Really Want?

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.



Characteristics of the Future Office

What office design characteristics are needed for today’s challenging corporate environment?



Attracting Library Traffic Through Design

Some of today’s mixed-use projects are using public libraries as anchors—with good results.



Office Design Trends: Honey, I Shrunk the Workstation!

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.



Partners in Change: Law Firm Design Trends

Efficiency trumps entitlement in law office design, as law firms face the realities of the new economy.



Design Process: Advanced Technology Integration

The convergence of advanced technologies that is currently shaping our society demands a more holistic, collaborative approach synthesizing infrastructure and design to realize complete integration.



Interior Design vs. Urban Design

Perkins+Will interior design director and principal Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, LEED AP ID+C, debates the similarities of interior and urban design.



Post-Occupancy Green: Blending Sustainable Design and Operation

For more meaningful progress on green building, sustainable design and sustainable operation must become more intertwined



Wood Design Focus: Kindling Comfort

From ceiling to floor, clients today are asking designers to find innovative ways to incorporate this natural element without breaking the bank.



Essay from the Past: Women Need Feminine Desks (1970)

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.



Essay from the Past: Space Planning Symposium (1963)

From 1963: Although the image of the space planner has begun to come into focus, there are still a good many blurry physiognomic details.



Video: Contract Celebrates 50 Years in Design

Contract magazine presents a look at the evolution of design over the last half decade in celebration of its 50th anniversary.



Case Study: Autodesk Waltham Project by KlingStubbins

Autodesk, Inc. exemplifies using IPD strategy to complete two redesign projects.



Process: Less Is More

HLW presents its 2009 "Rules of Thumb for Interior Construction"



Dream Team: SmithGroup on the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Philip Freelon, David Adjaye, Max Bond, and Hal Davis of SmithGroup found collaboration key to landing one of the most coveted commissions of the decade—the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture



Auralization 101: Show Me What I’m Hearing

Acoustics are a critical aspect of building design. But how candesigners make the connection between their drawings of a future spaceand the aural experience of its future users?



Process: Celebrating the Connection between Urban and Rural

New Ruralism meets New Urbanism in an effort to create truly sustainable communities and an architecture based on the land



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