Advertising has changed significantly in the past decade or so and requires a more collaborative and fluid team-based approach. BBH's challenge to Urban Salon was to help them change from being a business with a creative department to a vibrant, integrative studio.
Global's new office chair, the Arti, features our new patented flexible back support system. Arti offers a productive and comfortable, healthy back chair ready to support you through periods of prolonged sitting. Arti minimizes the possibility of resultant aches and pains with a chair back that freely moves with the user, providing excellent back support.
Rock Companies wanted a design for their new executive suite that reinforced the entrepreneurial spirit of the company. Working with ROSSETTI, they produced an eye-popping, yet sophisticated environment with just the right balance of life, work, and play.
Said Yuri Van Mierlo, manager corporate real estate at Unither, "We've experienced a 10-fold increase in inter-departmental interaction since the building opened. We highly value collaboration, and the new building provides intentional and coincidental opportunities to achieve just that."
"We designed a coffee bar that offers Chemex and pour-over brewing, which is a time-consuming process. So it could take 10 minutes to get a great cup of coffee in these ways, and that's when serendipitous interactions occur. We design for that wait time."
\"“It--â„¢s becoming a --Ëœgo-to--â„¢ place,-- said Joel Smith, AIA and partner at Neumann/Smith, about Detroit's new M@dison Building. "People are asking, --ËœHave you been to the M@dison?--™Â I didn--â„¢t realize what an impact this has had on the city. It has been a game-changer, with everybody wanting to experience it.--
"Everybody wants a place where they can get people together to collaborate," said Marc Schneiderman of SmithGroup at the inaugural Work Design Talk at Kimball Office in Washington, DC.
