Month: October 2017

• How organic design reflects the way people move around a building

  Posted on October 31, 2017 by admin

  

  The story goes that, after Rem Koolhaas had been appointed to design the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of technology in 2003, the legendary architect noticed how students had created their own pathways between the existing buildings on the site. The site of the new building included a field in which they […]

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• Finding the work life balance at London’s great workplace design shows

  Posted on October 3, 2017 by admin

  

  It has always been a characteristic of the 100% Design exhibition that it has segmented along the demarcations of workplace, home, interiors, kitchens and bedrooms. This used to make perfect sense as the same distinctions existed in our lives, reflected in the form and function of the products we allocated to those spaces. This is […]

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• Harnessing the power of electricity in the design and fit out of offices

  Posted on October 2, 2017 by admin

  

  Legend has it that the American politician, inventor, writer and polymath Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a storm in 1752 as part of his attempt to understand how to harness the power of electricity. This combination of risk, necessity and invention has marked our relationship with electricity ever since. We are now completely dependent […]

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