Posts Tagged: Workplace
The effect of materials & processing technology on office development
Particleboard and the ability to produce it in large sheets – cut, shaped and edged in a wide variety of sizes and finishes – was perhaps the first significant and liberating breakthrough in materials processing to affect the development of office (and other) furniture design and production. Veneered and lacquered post-primary-manufacturing finishes have over time… Read More >
The effect of space planning theory and practice on office development
In the 70s the ideals of office landscape design were wholeheartedly adopted by a management anxious to retain employees in an era of high employment and staff mobility. Individual space standards were generous and furniture budgets were on the up. Although this might have provided a convenient excuse for the furniture providers to adopt a… Read More >
74 serves up ICE at Salford’s Exchange Quay
Manchester-based architects and interior designers 74 have completed the refurbishment of Building 3 at Salford’s prestigious Exchange Quay – newly-rebranded as ICE. The project, for clients Ekistics Property Advisors LLP and Hunter REIM, is comprised of a dedicated social, meeting and bar space, a hireable meeting room, a co-working zone and five upper storeys of… Read More >
Align complete bubbleHUB
Workspace designers and strategists align have completed a striking, two-storey, co-working space for new operator bubbleHUB, located within a characterful former pump house building in the centre of St Albans. bubbleHUB co-founders Benn Latham and Harry Dougall briefed align to help create a ‘unique and aspirational’ space, which was to be unlike anything else currently… Read More >
The influence of New Ideas & Techniques
When I entered it straight from college in 1970, despite the relatively long intervening period, the office furniture industry was in terms of design and output only just beginning to shake off the shackles of dull, post-war austerity. This was driven in part by ideas on how offices might be laid out in a more… Read More >
Milliken’s Fractals
Workplace well-being is at the core of Milliken’s design philosophy and directly informs their latest carpet plank collection: Fractals. Created by Milliken’s in-house designer Manisha Selhi using a harmonious palette of natural background colours paired with ethereal colour washes with the express intention of facilitating a calm and mindful environment. [Milliken have a BCFA Product… Read More >
Homework with Bisley
The rise of the freelance economy, tech start-ups, mobile technology and the trend for co-working has undoubtedly penetrated the culture, design and expectation of where, when and how people work. This brings new pressures and choice for both workers trying to balance work and personal life, and for organisations as they try to meet the… Read More >