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“With the increasing amount of technology available and the increasingly globalized world, companies are seeing an opportunity to think about their work environment,” says Randy Howder, Gensler workplace strategist. “Tenant improvement design was once a ratio of conference rooms to work spaces. Corporate interiors used to be based on metrics, ratios, cubes. But now interior designers can be viewed as strategic partners, not just a cost.” +read article

The verdict is definiltey in—this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was a screaming success, with new product launches, new exhibitors, and buzzing crowds raving about it all. See our top new product picks from the show floor. +read article

Imposing and impressive, most of Beijing’s new complexes display as much showmanship as architecture, while evincing a quiet, monumental grandeur. +read article +back to main article

Karim Rashid has made an art of bringing new ideas and innovation to the widest-possible audience. +read article

Any story about the evolution of the office chair must, by necessity, be a narrative, rather than a history. In this one, as with all great tales, there is a protagonist (The Office Worker) and an antagonist (The Machine)—as well as grand, overarching themes­, like Comfort, Efficiency and Beauty. +read article

Architect Ma Yansong, a native Beijinger, is an important voice in a new generation of Chinese architects. +read article +back to main article

The new building for the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), a 1.3-million-square-foot structure has seen many blockbuster contemporaries, including Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid competing for its commission. 1949 Hidden City, a former research facility for the Beijing Machinery and Electric Institute, is also leading the city’s social scene. +read article +back to main article

Alongside the flashy glitz of moneyed Sanlitun, a mecca of consumerism for the city’s wealthiest, Beijing is developing a booming art scene, gorgeous boutiques and heavenly food, often hidden in the Gulou, the neighborhood around the Drum tower in the heart of the old city. Converted courtyards and renovated hutong houses have turned into some of the city’s most fashionable hotspots. +read article +back to main article

Ten years ago IA Interior Architects was doing workplace strategy for Fortune 500 companies and major corporate clients, like Chevron, to help evaluate real estate, says Nancy McEvers Anderson, Principal. “Smaller companies maybe did not have the money. Now, with all the technology changes that happen – what, every two weeks? – it’s so much more a part of everyone’s business model.” +read article

A helicopter hangar in Los Angeles is now an HLW-designed video studio. +read article +view resources

This is NPR, a Washington headquarters by Hickok Cole. Photography by Adrian Wilson. +read article +view resources

At the foot of the Rockies in Utah, Rapt Studio and WRNS Studio design a mega-building for Adobe. Photography by Eric Laignel +read article +view resources

Gensler rethinks KCET in Burbank, California. Photography by Ryan Gobuty and Makena Hudson. +read article +view resources

Though designers started thinking about behavior organization as long as 15 years ago, it took more than 10 years for people to really get what it is, says Leigh Stringer, HOK Director of Innovation and Research. “[Now] there’s much more strategic conversation with clients. They’re more dependant on partners, and they’re so global.” +read article

This just in - HOK has completed the broadcaster's world headquarters in London.  +read article +view resources