Architecture Billings Decline For First Time Since January 2021 / DIRTT Sales Climb / Herman Miller Expands European Gaming Business with Dedicated Gaming Webshops in Denmark, Finland and Sweden / Emerging Tech Markets Continue to Dominate Office Recovery / Hybrid Work’s Contribution to a More Sustainable Future / Why Return To The Office? It’s Time To Unleash The Workforce / Hybrid working is now an essential part of many job offers / Designing Human-Centric Workplaces Is Key To Hybrid Program Success
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Monday, November 21, 2022
Industry News
Herman Miller has announced the opening of several new online gaming webshops in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the first of their kind in the Scandinavian region. Dedicated to ergonomic gaming solutions and accessories, the new Herman Miller Gaming webshops will support the esports community with the brand’s two flagship products, the Vantum and Embody Gaming Chairs, both designed in collaboration with Logitech G.
DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd. announced its financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2022.
Revenue rose 37% to $46.7 million for the quarter, compared to the prior year’s third quarter, and 5% compared to second quarter 2022.
Net loss improved to $(6.7) million by $8.7 million, or 56%, from the prior year’s third quarter and by $12.6 million, or 65%, from second quarter 2022.
DIRTT shares closed Friday at $0.2859, down 4.29% on the day. At the close the company had a market cap of just $25.29 million. The shares of DIRTT had traded as high as $2.56 in the past year.
Billings at architecture firms softened considerably in October with an ABI score of 47.7, as firms reported the first decline in billings since January 2021. Economic headwinds have been mounting, and finally led to weakening demand for new projects.
The amount of office space available for sublease is reaching record highs as tech companies, facing a cold winter, mount aggressive layoff campaigns.
A record 212M SF of office space is available on the sublease market, according to CoStar data reported by the Wall Street Journal. Tech companies have placed more than 30M SF of offices on the sublease market, according to CBRE, triple the amount they listed in 2019.
Features
Tax snafus, legal headaches-and now, killjoy bosses. The digital-nomad lifestyle is full of complications for workers and their employers.
Workspace News
If you feel like you're seeing more tumbleweeds than co-workers in the office on Fridays, you're not alone. Data from access control provider Kastle Systems confirms that the last day of the work week is consistently the most unpopular day to be in the office.
Design
The office has certainly changed, but it's yet to be determined what it will be turned into. Every company and every team is finding its own relationship with the office, but one thing that every organization has to consider is why someone would come into the office in the first place.
The companies that embrace hybrid work and human-centric workplace practices at scale will be best equipped to support continuous workplace change over time.
It's time to change executive spaces to make hybrid work, work. Hybrid work offers great promise while also bringing with it many challenges and uncertainty. Most organizations who choose hybrid work are trying to offer a balance between the flexibility people want and the need to bring employees...
Trends
The pandemic has inherently shown us that new-age workplaces are deploying data-driven design for a data-driven future. In other words, there is a growing demand to deliver technologically advanced workplaces in a humane and timeless manner.
Philippe Starck is a French inventor, creator, architect, designer, and artistic director with an acute awareness toward ecological implications, enthusiasm for imagining new lifestyles, love of ideas, and concern with defending the intelligence of usefulness.
Metaverse
Virtual reality is finally breaking through into the real world. The metaverse sits front and center of this rise, providing a range of virtual environments and experiences for today’s tech savvy workforce.
Latest Products
BuzziShield Free Arc is unlike your usual room and office dividers and won't create a cold atmosphere as its glass or plastic counterparts do. Due to its voluminous upholstered body, this cozy acoustic solution effectively absorbs sound while adding a colorful element into any workspace, while its curved shape helps you move away from hard edges.
Clear Design has announced the launch of the Nexus Monitor Arm. This new addition to their FAST Program offers an ergonomic and space-saving solution for workstations. Nexus frees desk space and has built-in cable management to keep workstations looking clean.
Industrial design students Park Hyeongwoo and Jung Jaepil, of South Korea's Kookmin University, designed this amusing Flip Desk. Citing "work and study" as too time-consuming to allow room for maintaining an orderly home, they present this as the solution for when an unexpected visitor shows up: Flip the desk top and everything falls into the net below.
Paris-based inventor Richard Heng has created the Nomad Desk, a portable, folding, height-adjustable worksurface intended for both indoor and outdoor use. The entire thing, which weighs just over 15 pounds, breaks down to a rectangle roughly the size of a 16" MacBook Pro.
We're still working from home – are you? Even with a dedicated home office space and ergonomically advanced desk chair, it’s easy to feel the back pain and stiffness that can result from sitting for too long. It’s been proven that the healthiest way to work is by switching between sitting and standing, and that’s where the multifunctional INGRID comes in handy.
The JOURNEY ALTI Desk Mat does everything of a typical desk mat and a bit more, adding wireless charging for up to two wireless devices while also offering two surface options to appease whether your tactile preference skews plush or smooth.
Robin Rizzini has designed the new Toa Workstation for Pedrali, a table with a slender structure, made of die-cast aluminium that builds a bridge between the industrially influenced design language and decorative elements. He explains the idea to us in an interview.
We've seen people using the latest AI image generators to imagine all sorts of weird, wonderful and sometimes just plain terrible things. Mainly for putting animals or exotic fruit in clothes. But AI-generated fruit aren't only for making memes. They're also for sitting on.
Other News
Only slightly smaller than hockey's Stanley Cup, the supersize Stanley Quencher water bottle has become the desktop trophy for the casual, hybrid workplace
Remember Secret Santa? The gift-giving holiday classic was a staple of many office cultures for years. But new data is showing that the tradition may be going the way of the dodo. Blame the economic crunch.
There are only so many ways to build a piece of furniture, and almost all of them—save for Japanese wood joinery or this highly innovative shape-shifting chair—involve some form of nails, screws, glue, or electric tools that make the building process virtually irreversible. But for the past five years, a German design studio has been researching a radically different way to join two pieces of wood by clipping them together, a bit like the chin strap on a helmet.
Covid-19 normalized working from home as it expanded our perception of the sort of jobs that can be performed remotely. It also gave way to some downright wacky sounding ways to make a living.
Trends in Commercial Projects from Around the Globe
Drone manufacturer DJI has revealed a video filmed by a drone that flies around the exterior and interior of its 200-metre-high Sky City headquarters designed by British architecture studio Foster + Partners.
Filmed using the company's DJI Avata drone, the film explores the pair of skyscrapers that were recently completed in Shenzhen and are connected by a 105-meter-high suspension bridge.
The drone flies around the base of the building before entering it through the lobby and going into a lift up to the offices on the 20th floor.
On October 31st, 2022, RBW celebrated the grand opening of RBW Factory, their new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Kingston, New York. RBW has spent the last year breathing new life into what was once the famous IBM call center, which shuttered its doors in the 1980s.
How I Dream: Studio Noun transforms tech firm CVmaker's Amsterdam HQ into a vibrant art-filled space
All of my objects are for people who aren’t afraid – those who yearn to add depth, vibrancy and boldness to their space,” says Sandra Keja Planken, who founded Studio Noun to create tapestry, objects and interior design spaces that “range from abstract and absurdist, from anthropomorphic to human-like wonky, grotesque to naive, serious to fun”.
LinkedIn made the conscious decision to put down roots in Detroit, a bustling city that is rebounding and rebuilding in a big way. The company's immense respect for the city's history, culture, and spirit comes through in the design of the office. LinkedIn chose Gensler as their design partner to create a vibrant graphic program that meaningfully represents LinkedIn's values while showcasing the endless potential of the city.
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