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What McDonald’s can teach us about the business case for design
It’s up to you whether you think it’s good or bad news that the huge slide in profits and positive public perception experienced by McDonald’s restaurants during the first decade of the Millennium seems to have been halted. However, this reversal in fortune has less to do with its menu alterations than you might assume. […]
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The paperless office is no nearer to reality than it was 30 years ago
The first paperless office opened in the Spring of 1979. Designed by a management consultant as a model of the office of the future, the building in Washington DC was filled with the first generation of electronic scanners, microfiche readers and other products. A computer expert who was present at the launch recalls that the demonstration […]
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Economic recovery is driving demand for talent and office space around the UK
We can now be very confident that the UK economy is on the up. All economic indicators point that way including levels of employment, economic growth and increases in demand for commercial property. We can also be sure that the UK that emerges from five years of recession will be very different to the one […]
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Mix Interiors magazine features Dewynters office fit-out project by Fresh
One of our most recent projects was the subject of a case study in Mix Interiors magazine, one of the UK’s most widely read and respected office design publications. We think it’s a testament not only to the project and the willingness of Dewynters to recognise us for our work, but also an acknowledgement of […]
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Bristol has the chance to become a global leader in the development of smart cities
There is a great deal of talk about the growing urbanisation of the world right now, and its effects on societies, economies and individuals. The numbers are of people involved are daunting, especially in the developing world where many countries are experiencing the sort of upheaval we in Britain experienced nearly 300 years ago. But […]
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Don’t underestimate the power of biomimicry in office design
It’s easy to underestimate the role that biomimicry can play in interior design and architecture. This is usually based on some idea that when it comes to copying nature in a product, it’s simply about reproducing natural images. By replicating the things we see in the natural world, we are able to evoke primal associations […]
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Co-working is very much an idea whose time has come
One of the surest signs that the time for a idea particular idea has come, is when people apply it instinctively, without knowing what it is called or the jargon behind it. The greatest example I can think of to illustrate this right now is the idea of co-working.This is a form of working that […]
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Reports of the death of the office have been greatly exaggerated
People have now been talking about the death of the office for over twenty years. This talk always was premature because, although it rightly acknowledged the profound impact of new technology and new working cultures on office design, it also ignored the true nature of the office. If workplaces were just work-places as some of […]
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The challenge in Silicon Alley is providing the right quantity and quality of office space
News emerges from BNP Paribas that the most dynamic occupiers in Western European property markets belong to the technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector and that the most important market in the region is London. This comes as no surprise given the plans of Google to move to its new home in King’s Cross and […]
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We should learn to love our office design
We seem to spend a lot of time complaining about work and workplaces nowadays. But the truth is that not only that we need work to work to pay our bills, but that work is an integral part of what makes us happy. So we also need an office design that makes us happy too. […]
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