With clients like Michael Phelps, Felix Hernandez, Piers Morgan, and The Grammy Awards, the Octagon Agency always has something interesting going on inside its flagship office near Washington, DC.
The project is located in a renovated warehouse in the center of Shanghai. It was formerly used for assembly of electric switch boxes ... After it was abandoned by the factory work forces, we converted the building to make it suitable for modern office use.
Enter one such reinvention: the shared workspace concept. Today, the actual definition and cursory view of a coworking space and its attributes vary widely among operators and members. Many were repurposed real estate that otherwise was being underutilized by the property's owners.
A technology innovator thrives in an innovative work environment. And that's just what Cox Communications' technology department (C-Tech) now has in Atlanta.
Most of us don't think of automobile dealerships as offices. But they actually are. Perhaps a more accurate description is that a dealership is a transactional platform for selling vehicles.
Asurion's desire for this project was to create an open, collaborative workplace that supports the complex and ever-changing nature of software design work. The overall concept and execution of the design, however, was left to GS&P.
The company enlisted Cooper Carry's Interiors group to design a fantastic new Vero Beach, Fla., office -- then develop a corporate strategic facility plan for its 60 offices nationwide.
Office environments are not just functional -- they say a lot about an organization and can even impact work styles and culture. Two recent examples of new office designs that strongly convey a brand feeling to both employees and customers prove the point.
Randy Howder spoke at the WorkTech12 West Coast conference about designing the social network--â„¢s nine-building, one million-square-foot headquarters that debuted last December.
A panel at NEOCON East discussed the current concerns regarding the state of affairs in the design community. I have owned and operated my own design practice for the past 10 years (out of 30). Nearly half of that time, I--â„¢ve faced economic challenges.
Coming from a fairly closed environment, Sonic executives saw the new headquarters as an opportunity to illustrate the company's corporate culture and bring to life its mantra, "carpe diem."
