Walls, Productivity, and Doing Your Best Work
A round-up of the best answers to our most recent “Questions of the Week”.
Greenbuild is Nov. 20-22 in Philly
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Scene: Meet the WORKTECH 13 West Coast Speakers
We are proud to introduce the industry thought leaders who will be speaking at WORKTECH 13 West Coast on November 7, 2013 in San Francisco.
Industry Evolution Drives Collaborative Design for BBH
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 Total Office Debuts the Arti Chair
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: Branding Values Through Design
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.
United Therapeutics Designs Urban Campus
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.”
2 Years of Design Experiments, Data: Grind Grows Up
“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.”
Have you been to the [email protected]?
\”“It–â„¢s becoming a –Ëœgo-to–â„¢ place,– said Joel Smith, AIA and partner at Neumann/Smith, about Detroit’s new [email protected] Building. “People are asking, –ËœHave you been to the [email protected]?–™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.–
Designing for Employee Interaction
“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.
Three Coworking Apps for Social Souls
The momentum and interest in coworking seems to be increasing, which is phenomenal for full-time freelancers like me who love the home office but regularly miss the social aspect of the office-office.
As part of that movement, coworking apps that connect people to desks (and people to people!) are making their debuts seemingly every month. And even though Washington, DC, is still working to define its coworking spaces for entrepreneurs in the region, I know that at least three coworking apps — LooseCubes, DeskTimeApp, and (the forthcoming) SharedDesks — can help me expand my network and get new ideas when I’m traveling.
Faces: Meet Greg Tew
In the first of our series on people in our industry, we’re introducing you to Virginia Tech’s Greg Tew.
In his own words, Greg describes how he’s working to make an impact on the next generation of designers, dreamers, and employees.