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Workplace Architecture
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Projects
A Construction Company’s New Workplace Reveals Its Material Prowess
During a renovation and expansion project for Okland Construction, WRNS Studio prioritized features where the company could display its dexterity with concrete.
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Viewpoints
What Does a Neurodiverse Workplace Look Like?
Design of most offices doesn't account for the estimated 50 percent of workers who aren't neurotypical. HOK offers strategies for how to build more inclusively.
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Viewpoints
This Sustainable Office Does More with Less
Without touching the building's envelope or MEP, LPA has designed a workplace that consumes 70 percent less energy than comparable structures.
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A 1959 Modernist Office in Sacramento Shines Again
The building’s midcentury architecture was historically significant, so architecture firm Dreyfuss + Blackford’s upgrades had to be thoughtful and subtle.
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A Playful Tech Office that Nods to the Past
For the company Spreetail, Perkins and Will imagine a cheeky and colorful workplace set inside a 19th-century building in Austin.
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25 Kent Mirrors Williamsburg’s Aesthetics, Entrepreneurialism, and Rapid Change
Designed by Hollwich Kushner, the new mixed-use development is a sensitive addition to North Brooklyn’s glitzy, booming waterfront.
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How Data Shaped a Law Office in New York City
For BSF’s workplace in Hudson Yards, Schiller Projects worked with their client to optimize space for productivity—without sacrificing dramatic design gestures.
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Projects
OFFICIAL Brings Its Nimbleness in Residential and Product Design to the Workplace
The young Dallas design firm applies a multidisciplinary perspective to meet the challenges of creating a contemporary office.
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Programs
How Conventional Offices Can Compete With Shared Workspace Providers
A Metropolis Think Tank panel at SmithGroup's Washington, D.C. office explored the new amenities that property managers are deploying to retain tenants.
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Profiles
Design Legend Klaus Nienkämper Looks Back on 50 Years of Furniture Innovation
The German-born designer reflects on pivotal moments in his career, his first Neocon, and how his firm stayed on the cutting edge of design.
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Projects
SCHAUM/SHIEH Designed This New Houston Gallery to Feel Like It Could “Scatter Like Cards”
Situated in a block of sleepy low-rise houses in Houston, the new Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology makes for a striking sight. However, the building fits nicely in with several cultural institutions located j
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Projects
Foster + Partners–Designed Bloomberg London HQ Opens
The office houses an ancient Roman temple and may be the world’s most sustainable commercial building to date.
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Viewpoints
Capital One Workplace Survey Closely Links Innovation and Workplace Design
Nearly two in three office professionals believe that workplace design is equally as important or more important than the workplace location.
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Events
Where’s the Water Cooler—Is the Virtual Workplace Killing Office Culture?
For the past three years, Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis’s publisher and editor in chief, has been leading a series of discussions on key issues around human-centered design. On June 1, 2016 she talked with a panel of ex