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3 essential products for activity-based working
Transform your workspace into a dynamic, adaptable, and collaborative environment with these products that meet the diverse needs of your workforce.
People
JEB and Lexta discuss future-ready solutions for adaptable workspaces
Paul Dingley of JEB Group and Sally Tam of Lexta shed light on workplace trends that are shaping their product offerings and how sustainability is becoming an integral part of their business strategies.
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Gensler Singapore office is primed for hybrid work
The practice’s new office on the CBD fringe of Singapore is inclusive, healthy, purposeful and designed for human connection.
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Bean Buro conceives a retail academy for the future
The latest design from Bean Buro provides a place of learning, a space to connect and the ideal environment to present the essence of iconic retail brands and it’s called Moulding Talent.
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Greg Natale’s Cotton On campus makes work look like luxury
What would entice you back into the office? For the Cotton On campus in Geelong, Australia, Greg Natale solves the dilemma with a set of luxe and soulful facilities. Work never looked so good!
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Work reset: What is the future of work?
The pandemic-driven disruption of how we work has been painful for both companies and employees. But it is also providing an opportunity for everyone to recalibrate how we want the future of work to look like.
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MCX Interior lets water guide its fluid design for Hogan Lovells’ Beijing office
Inspired by water, the new Hogan Lovells office in Beijing supports fluid ways of working, while bringing people together in an inviting space. Designed by MCX Interior, the workspace sets a new standard in China’s capital city.
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Foolscap Studio reimagines multi-use spaces in ANZ Open House
Together with ANZ, Foolscap Studio has reinvented corporate amenities through the highly detailed, bespoke and materiality-rich fit-out of ANZ Open House.
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Studio SKLIM crafts a tiny, flexible workspace for Deloitte
Nine agile work zones are packed within a petite 32-square-metre footprint which serves as an extension of the main office.
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MCX Interior lets water guide its fluid design for Hogan Lovells’ Beijing office
Inspired by water, the new Hogan Lovells office in Beijing supports fluid ways of working, while bringing people together in an inviting space. Designed by MCX Interior, the workspace sets a new standard in China’s capital city.
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From a conventional office to an activity based working model by GOLDEN
The flexible work spaces of RMBL’s new head office, designed by GOLDEN, have transformed the mortgage manager’s conventional practices in favour of an activity based working model.
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First factory in Vietnam with naturally ventilated manufacturing halls
How can architecture positively impact less-than-ideal manufacturing practices in developing countries? With Jakob Factory, Rollimarchini Arkitekten and G8A Architects propose a new factory typology that puts an emphasis on the well-being of the people and the land.
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Workplace design: Technology, well-being and empathy are key
Rosie Oliver, Design Leader of Woods Bagot Singapore, shares the team’s working process and the common thread for workplace design in the face of a pandemic.
Events
Cubes 101: Make It Work is out now!
After a year of upheaval in the workplace, what does the workplace of today (and the future) need to address? Cubes 101 focuses on workplaces that provide clues on the way forward.
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What’s workplace design got to do with office dynamics?
Hybrid working puts the pressure back on the individual to expertly communicate and perform within a team of dispersed personnel. How can workplace design help to enhance office dynamics?
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Our ‘Changing Interior of Workplace’ Webinar is on next week!
Our Webinar on the future of the workplace post COVID-19 is open for registration!
Products
The Place of togetherness and intuitive creativity
Balanced and a natural problem-solver, Place is a new type of lounge – one that is smart, intuitive and brings people together. Australian designer, Ross Gardam invites you to experience a refreshed way of working with the Place collection.
Furniture
The Place of togetherness and intuitive creativity
Balanced and a natural problem-solver, Place is a new type of lounge – one that is smart, intuitive and brings people together. Australian designer, Ross Gardam invites you to experience a refreshed way of working with the Place collection.
Ideas
Behaviour And Misbehaviour At Work
For agile to succeed, we need awareness of how people actually work. That means deeply understanding worker behaviour and organisational culture, and managing change to suit.
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Agile, Cellular, ‘Anti-Workplace’: Insights On Workplace Culture From Woods Bagot
Woods Bagot’s workplace interior design expert Amanda Stanaway shares some critical insights into the changing nature of our working lives and how design can be used as a powerful tool.
People
5 minutes with Woods Bagot’s Amanda Stanaway on workplace cultures
As a workplace interior design expert with over 20 years of experience, Amanda Stanaway has some critical insights into the changing nature of our working lives and how design can be used as a powerful tool.
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Back to the future Hall Chadwick Brisbane by COMUNiTI
A progressive urban workplace’s imaginative design reflects its rural heritage, encourages movement and unifies its team: Hall Chadwick’s exciting new premises by COMUNiTI.
People
FRONT Featured Speaker Peter Marix-Evans on the future of Australian workspaces
As the inaugural FRONT event approaches, we join SHAPE Australia CEO Peter-Marix Evans for a discussion about the changing face of Australian workspaces.
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What does it really mean to “design for diversity”?
How can designers look beyond their own experiences to meet the needs of a broad spectrum of end users?
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High EQ: Mirvac’s EY Centre
Can you design emotional intelligence into a workplace? The trail-blazing EY Centre in Sydney gives it a red hot go, with a human-focused approach to both the development and design of the building. EY Centre’s appeal proved irresistible for Mirvac which, half-way through the development process, decided to locate its headquarters across six floors of the building.
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Designed for people, inspired by place: NAB Brisbane by Woods Bagot
With staff fully assimilated to the rhythms of agile working, how do we begin to offer further flexibility? In its Brisbane headquarters, NAB looks to seamlessly align staff with space, giving them the room – quite literally – to physically and mentally ‘flex’. Designers Wood Bagot strove to bring physical space and human behaviour into perfect sync.
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Future-proofed: Geyer designs new home for Suncorp
Sometimes the most evolved designs are those left incomplete. When conceptualising the new Suncorp headquarters in Sydney, Geyer worked to the idea of ‘designing to 80 per cent’. The result is a radical take on workplace flexibility. While the building caters to its occupants in the present, it comprehensively avoids dictating their needs going into the future.
Products
Schiavello Is Bringing Agile Working To The Table
Typically the domain of entire office spaces, the idea of ‘agile working’ is condensed into a single table with Schiavello’s new furniture collaboration.
Ideas
Can you create an empathic office with bio-responsive design?
Are bio-responsive offices the next step forward in workplace design? Two proposals by Carlo Ratti Associati and UNStudio suggest our workspaces could and should evolve in such a direction.
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The future is now: Exploring work and the workplace at WORKTECH18 Sydney
Taking place in Sydney, WORKTECH will tackle all the big questions around the workplace and how design is set to play a major role.
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Stairway To (Workplace) Heaven: Dentsu Aegis Network Beijing
Designed by Woods Bagot, Dentsu Aegis Network’s new Beijing workplace has a central staircase that supports the company’s philosophy of connectivity and collaboration.
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Spirit Lifting Design: Pernod Ricard’s New Office
Wine and spirits company Pernod Ricard enlisted the help of The Bold Collective to reinvigorate its space and transition from a disjointed office in North Ryde, to a spacious 2500-square-metre space in Barangaroo.
Products
Something’s Rockin’ at the Office for Motion
Wilkhahn stands worldwide for some of the world’s greatest design. German designed and made, the brand has been making an impression on office design for six decades, and are continuing to step it up with the Metrik and Occo chairs.
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Could Colour Be Critical In The Future Of The Agile Workplace?
Playster’s new Montreal headquarters by local ACDF Architecture is an exploration of how colour can be used strategically in the agile workplace.