The role would require an individual who could integrate a passion for graphics with interior design to create engaging decor in an unlikely venue for standout design. I warmed to the challenge.
The character of creative work requires spaces that enable collaboration and participation. Emerging workplaces continue to evolve, where the place is seen as a backdrop to new ways of working and new ways of thinking.
Natural light, scenic views, and an aluminum slide might indeed belong in a park. Instead, they're design details of the new headquarters of one of the country's fastest growing companies: Snagajob.
It's within this 21st century technological framework that IBM, currently the second largest employer in the United States according to Fortune magazine, has recognized the need to establish a more mobile workplace designed to allow and support flexibility in employee work patterns and schedules.
The focus is shifting away from having students memorize facts toward self-directed learning, research techniques, and team approaches to problem-solving.
The space -- a 25,000 s.f., former metal fabrication warehouse built in the 1950s -- had plenty of existing character. Concrete columns with graffiti and a few masonry partitions were incorporated into the design. It also includes wood, metal, railroad ties, and historic glazing that incorporates the feel of its previous location in the Stockyards.
How we work is changing, but where we work isn't. Over the last 10 years, a new way of working has emerged, along with some people who live it every day
We're a great example of the hot, collaborative consumption movement. It is more efficient and economical to pool resources than to purchase them just for your own business.
The idea of Smart Working at Credit Suisse was born in the spring of 2010. We had realized there was an opportunity to optimize our real-estate footprint while providing employees with a work environment that better fit their different needs.
New Work City is a community first and a business second. That means everything we do flows from a different place than a more real-estate or profit-driven workspace model.
Manifest Digital, a Chicago-based interactive design agency, recently relocated their space to the Jeweler's Building in downtown Chicago at 35 E. Wacker Drive. The 40-story landmark office faces the Chicago River.
Providing a case study in bold 21st Century workplace and biophilic design strategies is Federal Center South, a new 209,000 SF district headquarters in Seattle for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
