Big box retailers are seeking different approaches to store environments
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The future of our design disciplines and service philosophies should bring a demand for increased ingenuity in design, flexibility, durability, and longevity in our buildings.
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As the pace of change in modern life accelerates, library design is changing too.
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Even during the darkest days of the current economic recession, school and university construction continued, albeit at a slower pace, thus representing one of the few “bright” spots of opportunity—relatively—for architects and interior designers.
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The University of Chicago Law School entrusts OWP/P/Cannon Design with the task of modernizing its original Saarinen structure while respecting the building's heritage.
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What office design characteristics are needed for today’s challenging corporate environment?
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Some of today’s mixed-use projects are using public libraries as anchors—with good results.
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The U.S. vice president of
Colebrook Bosson Saunders died on May 10 at 35 years of age.
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How can you navigate coding and permit snafus?
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Design specialists are uniquely positioned to help navigate the process of change in the workplace
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A student product design competition offers new perspectives for the participants and judges alike
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A LEED expert offers a step by step guide for avoiding lost credits
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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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Perkins+Will interior design director and principal Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, LEED AP ID+C, debates the similarities of interior and urban design.
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Contract asks eight designers to name and explain their preferred commercial interior products from the past five decades.
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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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How virtual work is changing the modern workplace
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Research has become a hot topic lately in interior design especially in the arenas of sustainability,
healthcare, and workplace environments.
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From June 1990: Architects and interior designers would have much more to gain by
educating society about the true value of design in our lives.
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For more meaningful progress on green building, sustainable design and sustainable operation must become more intertwined
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"Designing for Health" is a monthly, Web-exclusive series from healthcare interior design leaders at Perkins+Will that focuses on the issues, trends, challenges, and research involved in crafting today's healing environments. This month's article focuses on connecting a healthcare facility with its urban community.
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I tend to think of Contract as a part of the design industry, but actually it is more accurately part of another industry—print publishing—which is experiencing tremendous change to the point of upheaval.
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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 smartphones to Google, technology is changing the way designers approach the very practice of design.
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As alliances and collaborations combine with more frequency, and technological possibilities accelerate, how designers work and what the profession will look like will change profoundly.
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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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After a devastating year of layoffs, furloughs, and closures, businesses
are repositioning for the post-great recession economy. What will this
new economic landscape look like?
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From 1963: Although the image of the space planner has begun to come into focus, there are still a good many blurry physiognomic details.
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What is an anniversary? Certainly it is an opportunity to celebrate the past, as we have done in spades in this commemorative issue marking Contract’s 50 years in publication.
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This article addresses itself to a dilemma facing the contract and interior design field and particularly as it affects the final client—the business firm or corporation. The dilemma is not of anyone’s particular making but it causes serious enough headache to warrant attention and, it is hoped, clarification.
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At this fateful juncture in our social and economic history, when everything from personal values to business processes is up for reevaluation, there is renewed talk of the potential for design thinking to chart a more enlightened future for corporate America and beyond.
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More happiness, less stuff. It’s the conclusion I’ve been drawing lately on the speaking circuit, as I describe my reworking of a famous equation by Paul and Anne Ehrlich from their book The Population Bomb—the environmental impact equation.
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Generational differences and sustainability play a major role today in workplace design.
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This month's installation of Perkins+Will “Designing for Health" series
focuses on safety in behavioral health facilities.
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What Designers Need To Know About Lighting
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This month's “Designing for Health" article focuses on the challenges of renovating existing healthcare facilities.
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2010 will
bring great jubilation here at Contract as we celebrate our 50th year in
publication.
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Today’s multipurpose hotel lobby functions as living room, meeting room, dining
room, and art gallery to provide the complete guest experience
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A manufacturing CEO gains insights by earning his LEED accreditation
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One of the biggest trends to sweep guestrooms around the world is the open, New
York loft-style aesthetic.
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Colleges
are now adapting the integrated design approach to their own campus dining
facilities.
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In the case of LEED for Schools (with LEED Healthcare
on the horizon), there are no LEED credits for acoustics.
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As we rush headlong toward the holidays and a new year (whew!) it is probably
safe to say that many of us have given up on 2009 and are looking forward to
what 2010 will bring.
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In the
last several years, Emergency Departments have finally begun to get the right kind of treatment.
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After decades of relegating staff and patients to the glare of
artificial light, many hospitals now are aggressively pursuing daylighting
strategies that have long been the accepted as the norm in Europe.
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