By Andrew Sibley | December 1, 2011 at 1:15 am | 2 comments
Desso is a major carpet manufacturer, selling primarily to corporate and commercial customers in more than 100 countries. In this 2-part series, Andrew Sibley from Desso looks at how the workplace is changing.
Read Part I: The "New" Work, Part I
The new office...
Posted in: dec 2011, Ideas
By Brian Malarkey | October 1, 2011 at 6:00 am | No comments
Designing for Blended Teams
NRG Energy is headquartered in the Houston Pavilions mixed-use complex in downtown Houston. Kirksey designed the 11 floors of this 262,000-sf project to ease the organizational transition of two merging companies, increase collaboration among...
Posted in: oct 2011, Projects
By Valerie Trent | October 1, 2011 at 5:40 am | One comment
Conflict management is a fundamental part of our professional environments and color affects our psyche tremendously. Clash in a work environment is bound to happen – different people, backgrounds, and ideas on how to do things.
Disagreements impact work production...
Posted in: Ideas, oct 2011
By Valerie Trent | December 1, 2010 at 12:08 pm | One comment
Our industry seemed obsessed with avocado green and hypnotic orange in the 1970s, then deep tones of bourbon red, depressed blue, and hunter green in the 1980s. The 1990s ushered in a glut of bold and multicolored patterns, which were anything but sparse.
The current...
Posted in: dec 2010, Ideas, Projects