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CITED:“WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF MANY ALARMS, NONE OF WHICH SOUND OUR TRUE CONCERNS.” —GUY MANKOWSKI, AN HONEST DECEIT
Are Our Smart Buildings Secure?
The built environment is increasingly becoming smart – the separate pieces of our buildings as well as the people within them are being liked together through the cloud, integrated facility systems, and a constantly evolving tech landscape. The Internet of Things offers more environmentally friendly, human friendly, cost effective spaces that are changing the way we do everything – live, play, work, socialize. But smart buildings are introducing their own new, critical challenges in security. Are the smart spaces architects and interior designers create protected from exterior attacks?
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Tile Trend Report: Top 7 Tile Trends for 2019
There are a handful of events that set the stage for defining trends in the world of design each year. Cersaie – the international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings – is one such tradeshow, where over 100,000 designers, installers and buyers travel to Bologna, Italy each September to learn about cutting edge products and technologies in the tile industry. Kristen Coleman, Vice President at Novità PR, presents seven of the biggest tile trends as seen in the hundreds of new collections from Ceramics of Italy member manufacturers at the 36th edition of Cersaie.
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Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: New Conference a Success – And a Model
Sally Augustin reviews the first Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) conference, held September 19-21 in Tampere, Finland. “One of the most positive, important and valuable aspects of this conference was the professionally diverse set of practitioners and researchers involved.”
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The built environment is increasingly becoming smart – the separate pieces of our buildings as well as the people within them are being linked together through the cloud, integrated facility systems, and a constantly evolving tech landscape. The Internet of Things offers more environmen-tally friendly, human friendly, cost effective spaces that are changing the way we do everything – live, play, work, socialize.
But smart buildings are introducing their own new, critical challenges in security.
Connected lighting, HVAC and other building infrastruc-ture systems controlled via software – we can include our contract furniture systems, as they become increasingly tech-integrated – opens a window for hackers to break into all IT systems being used in that building. Our buildings are getting smarter, but the software systems we use to control and connect our building systems are much the same as they were 50 years ago.
Are the smart spaces architects and interior designers
create protected from exterior attacks? What are the security risks we should be preparing for? Does the proper technol-ogy needed to do so exist on the market? What should the future of smart building security look like?
We spoke to security expert Ian Eyberg, the CEO of the security systems company NanoVMs.
“The term ‘smart building’ has been around forever, coined in the 1970s,” said Mr. Eyberg. “First, we developed the ability to control HVAC and boiler room systems. Then, we built the technology to control monitors and screens within a space. But now, buildings are adopting massive amounts of technology that is rendering it impossible for our building operating systems to be able to properly manage and secure them.”
The Internet of Things and adjacent technologies are presenting data manageability and security problems.
“We’re creating unbelievable amounts of data,” said Mr. Eyberg. “And in the past, property building managers might contract with someone outside to manage it. But that’s no
Are Our Smart Buildings Secure?by Mallory Jindra
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technologylonger sufficient in protecting ourselves and our data. Now, we’re developing a new way of securing and managing data. A lot of that data is now being gathered and analyzed onsite. Com-panies are beginning to install racks of servers onsite in order to keep up with the amount of data entering the cloud. And managing the data is a huge pain, but securing it is even worse.”
Mr. Eyberg notes that the design concept driving our legacy systems is inherently flawed, and that has to do with a timing perspective. Linux came out in 1991, just before the concept of virtualization. All of the old operating systems were built around deploying to physical servers; but now, we’re deploying to virtualized servers – the cloud.
In essence, we are trying to manage and secure our virtualized servers using operating systems that were built to manage physical servers – and this real-ity opens us up to major vulnerabilities.
“Politians often talk about the state of roads and bridges, and the need to rebuild and improve them,” said Mr. Eyberg. “Our operating systems are very similar; they’re crumbling, every-one knows it, and we need to rebuild them. New technologies like machine learning make the attack surface way bigger for hackers.”
NanoVMs offers to clients what is called a unikernel platform – what is likely the future of managing and securing cloud infrastructure. What is a unikernel? NanoVMs defines:
“A unikernel is simply an application that has been boiled down to a small, secure, light-weight virtual machine. The resulting virtual machine image does not contain an operating system like Linux or Windows. There are no users and no shell to login. Since it is one application it prevents other applications from running by design. Unikernels are widely considered to be the next generation of cloud infrastruc-
ture for their speed and security.”Explained another way, by the
bimonthly computer magazine ACM Queue in a feature titled, “Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System”:
“A unikernel is a specialized, single address space machine image constructed by using library operating systems. A developer selects, from a modular stack, the minimal set of libraries which correspond to the OS constructs required for their applica-tion to run. These libraries are then compiled with the application and configuration code to build sealed, fixed-purpose images (unikernels) which run directly on a hypervisor or hardware without an intervening OS such as Linux or Windows.”
Legacy systems (Linux and Win-dows) are multiple process systems, but unikernals are single process systems, that do not – cannot – run code that was not intended to run. NanoVMs’ website holds that this in-frastructure removes the vast majority of security problems. On a unikernel platform, hacking is rendered near-impossible because it doesn’t have a “shell” – a user interface for access to an operating system’s services, and it also has no actual “users” and there-fore, no unintended users (hackers). From the NanoVMs.com:
“Unikernels are single process systems. By design they can *not* run code that was not intended to run…Shell code exploits by defini-tion do not work on unikernels…The shell is at least a 40 year old construct designed in a different time period. Today in Silicon Valley engineers are used to working with tens, hundreds, thousands or even more systems at a time. It’s an antiquated concept that only lends its hands to those who want to do your company harm. There are no shells on unikernel systems - they simply don’t exist. They cannot exist. This is by design.”
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technologyIn addition to vastly improved se-
curity and performance (single pro-cess systems have extremely quick boot times as compared to legacy systems), unikernel platforms offer more specialization; because the systems don’t have to communicate with each other, they can be highly customized. This point also presents a drawback to unikernels – running multiple applications side-by-side in unikernel systems presents its own complexity, and also requires regularly rewriting drivers to support updated hardware.”
“The systems a building runs on can be very complex, and even more so in a smart building,” said Mr. Eyberg.
“HVAC systems are connected to light-ing systems, media surface systems, and systems that count people as they come in or out of the building, to adjust temperature or switch on the lights, for example. All of these systems are connected, and once the attacker is on the network, the entire system is compromised.”
The physical space is clearly one that is more noticeable to humans, and people do a pretty good job of securing their physical space. And we’re beginning to think seri-ously about our own personal virtual security as well – the continuous and increasingly more ominous data secu-rity breaches from companies like
Equifax and Facebook have forced the issue out and into the spotlight.
But, how can we shift peoples’ per-ception of their own virtual security to include a larger, connected, physical-virtual world?
Mr. Eyberg of NanoVMs said, “We’re one of a few companies that are providing this new form of software infrastructure. We’re trying to reduce the attack surface, and trying to secure the buildings at each touchpoint.”
Smart buildings will continue to multiply in the coming years and will continue to present greater security concerns. Our coverage of this impor-tant subject will continue in 2019. Stay tuned! n
Image: courtesy of NanoVMs
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MINDSETEveryday we hear business concepts, we read white papers and management books that involve change; change in actions, change in business models, change in thinking. But how do we actually change? What actions do we take that alter our patterns, the conventions we’ve been taught, and what got us to where we are today?
Mindset has the power to shape the actions we take and help us recognize what needs changing. Knowing that we need to change is one thing, knowing how to change is entirely different. This year’s 360º explores outside influences on our thinking, how we’re wired, what’s happening around us, and what our future may challenge us to do. It’s our mindset that gives us the ability to change.
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product design
There are a handful of events that set the stage for defining trends in the world of design each year. Cersaie – the international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings – is one such tradeshow, where over 100,000 designers, installers and buyers travel to Bologna, Italy each September to learn about cutting edge products and technologies in the tile industry. These are seven of the biggest tile trends as seen in the hundreds of new collec-tions from Ceramics of Italy member manufacturers at the 36th edition of Cersaie.
1. SYSTEMSFor years, Italian tile manufacturers
have been expanding the definition of a product, offering specifiers a whole suite of surfacing tools around a single idea or design. At first, it was a range of colors, finishes and sizes as well as complementing decors and trims. Now, with continued investment in production equipment, many com-panies are expanding their range of thicknesses – and thus applications – with tiles ranging from 3mm to 30mm including a new 12mm thick porcelain tile specifically designed for kitchen countertops, bathroom vanities, tables and outdoor kitchens.
Tile Trend Report: Top 7 Tile Trends for 2019by Kristin Coleman
FLORIM, stone effect
Ariana, Bath Design Atlas Concorde, Atlas Plan
Emilgroup, Level quartzoLaFabbrica, Ca’Foscari
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product design2. TILE PLAY
From three-dimensional tiles that look like giant Lego bricks (Marca Corona Bold) to popular cartoons il-lustrated on ceramic (Del Conca Felix the Cat), when projects call for playful-ness, Italian tile answers in full. Com-panies are continuously experimenting with color, size and patterns to create one-of-a-kind surfacing for architects and designers. They also offer tailor made solutions like Ornamenta’s ability to print large porcelain slabs in any Pantone color.
Leonardo, Ashima
Caesar, Core
Del Conca, Felix the Cat
Marca Corona, Bold Ornamenta, Operae
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product design3. LUNAR MARBLE
Moving beyond common varieties of stone like carrara, statuario and traver-tine, Italian tile producers are scouting quarries throughout the world to find obscure marble full of color and char-acter or digitally manipulating the look of natural stone to create something that is literally out-of-this-world. For Sicis’ ever-evolving Vetrite collection, the enchanting magic of 13 gemstones are captured and amplified in between giant sheets of glass to create lunar-like landscapes for the Gem Glass line. Meanwhile, Refin Stardust combines the nebulous veining of alabaster with elegant metallic surface effects to cre-ate a line of porcelain tiles inspired by the nighttime sky.
Atlas Concorde, Marvel Edge
Refin, Stardust
Sicis, Vetrite Gem Glass Cotto d’Este, Vanity dark brown
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product design4. THE BLUES
Whether soft or electric, blue is one of the hottest hues in tile design this year, offering a revitalizing pop of color to a variety of interiors. Some, like Cedit’s Rilievi sculptural ceramic wall-coverings, are the kind of hyper blue associated with contemporary artists Yves Klein and Frida Kahlo. Others, like Ceramica Vietrese Happy Days and Provenza Vulcanika, conjure the feeling of vacation and the shallow teal waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
Ceramica Vietrese, Happy Days Colli, Fes Blu Provenza, Vulcanika
Cedit, RivieliMade+39, Acquerello
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product design5. BIG PATTERNS
Italians are known for their rich ar-tistic heritage, which are now rendered on big porcelain slabs with minimal grout lines to create the alluring effect of wallpaper with the technical benefits of ceramic. In fact, some companies are even marketing their products as ceramic wallpaper, offering an expan-sive catalog of patterns digitally printed on tiles up to 5.25’x10’. One example is ABK who introduced Dark Edition as a capsule collection inspired by the Gothic side of nature for its ever-expanding Wide&Style line. Another company is Fuoriformato who offers an explosion of color and pattern on large ceramic surfaces that can also be used as furnishing elements.
ABK, Dark Edition
Stile Italia, Extra NextoneCasalgrande Padana, Onici
Fuoriformato, Tropik
Unica, Garden Sun Fuoriformato
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product design6. NEU SURFACES
This year, it wasn’t just the patterns and sizes that impressed with their seemingly endless variety and sense of inventiveness. Tile producers have completely upped the ante in terms of surface design, which can be seen in dozens of awe-inspiring, new finishes and textures designed for aesthetics as well as functionality. Two collections that artfully demonstrate this trend as well as ceramic tiles’ chameleon capa-bilities include Ceramica Sant’Agostino Lakewood that conjures oiled wood planks with a hand planed surface and Vallelunga Cava whose marble design and satin finish looks like an ancient European church floor. Ceramica Sant’Agostino, Lakewood
Fap Ceramiche, Lumina
Made+39, Cube Campani, DivinaeValellunga, Cava
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product design7. TRADITION
From ancient forms and 18th century patterns to tiles inspired by charming places seemingly stuck in time, Italian tile manufacturers are finding creative ways to make the old feel new again. Mixed and matched patterns, like those of 14oraitaliana’s Folk and Ceramica Sant’Agostino’s Vita collections, evoke the imagery and vibrant colors of Italy’s most famous and beloved territories. Fiora-nese’s Liquida slabs resemble 1950’s-style wallpaper, while the earthy tones and textured surfaces of Provenza’s Terraquea collection recall tradi-tional terracotta ware. Designed with nostalgic sentiments, each of these collections combine the aesthetic and cultural qualities of the past with the technological innovations of today. 14oraitaliana, Folk Ceramica Sant’Agostino, Vita
Fioranese Ceramica, Liquida
Tonalite, Aquarel
Ceramica Vietri Antico, Mediterranea
Provenza, Terraquea
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product designMore so than ever before, this year’s
Cersaie show demonstrated that Italian tile manufacturers lead the industry in digital manufacturing, sustainability, and of course, design – continuously pushing the boundaries to ensure that they are always providing cutting edge products of the highest qual-ity. Many of these and other new tile lines available in the U.S. market will be showcased at Coverings – North America’s preeminent event for the ceramic tile industry – taking place April 9-12, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. The next edition of Cersaie – a must for tile lovers from all over the world – is scheduled for September 23-27, 2019 in Bologna, Italy. n
Kristen Coleman is a Vice President at Novità PR. She can be reached at [email protected]. Confindustria Ceramica is the Italian trade associa-tion for manufacturers of ceramic tiles, sanitaryware and tableware; Ce-ramics of Italy is its trademark, and
Novità PR is its public relations firm. For more information visit ceramica.info or follow Ceramics of Italy on Facebook (@CeramicsOfItalyNA) and YouTube (@LaCeramicaItaliana) as well as Twitter, Pinterest and Insta-gram (@CeramicsOfItaly).
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concurrentsENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGYNew Conference a Success – And a Modelby Sally Augustin, Ph.D.
There’s a new workplace design-related conference – and you’ll find it’s worth the time and money required to attend its future sessions.
The first Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) conference was held September 19-21 in Tampere, Finland. Designers and researchers (and sometimes a single person is both!) with a wide range of backgrounds, from around the world, participated in this inaugural event – which lead to interesting, and sometimes powerfully useful, conversations.
The conference organizers described the event they coor-dinated well on their website (http://www.tut.fi/en/twr2018/welcome-to-twr-2018-tampere/index.htm): “This conference aims to bring together work environment researchers from all relevant disciplines, both from academia and practice. This includes, but is not limited to, physical work environment (e.g. facilities management, real estate, architecture and design, building physics (HVCSE), bio-technology), social work environment (e.g. HRM, behavioural sciences, organisational science, business, health, environmental psychology), digital work environment (e.g. ICT, virtual reality), and work environ-ment management (management, economics, FM, CREM). Presented research can focus on an individual, organisational or urban scale. The conference will provide delegates insight in both current topics and future interests. During two days, we will be discussing and analysing research on the work en-vironment from many different perspectives, with researchers from around the world in parallel sessions…Besides parallel sessions, the conference will also provide the opportunity to discuss further enhancement of the field in special sessions/workshops aimed at jointly identifying future roadmaps for related sub-themes; this in order to provide the opportunity to
form and join transdisciplinary, international research initia-tives…Social, physical, technological and managerial aspects of the workplace interact with worker behaviour and with each other. Hence, a transdisciplinary approach is required to advance our knowledge and practices. Until now, different aspects of the workplace are mostly studied within separate academic and professional fields. That’s why we initiated this new Transdisciplinary Workplace Conference.”
Tours of innovative Finnish workplaces were scheduled both before and after several days of more sedentary ses-sions.
One of the most positive, important and valuable aspects of this conference was the professionally diverse set of prac-titioners and researchers involved. As a person who was a finance major but now has an environmental psychology consulting practice, I was particularly thrilled to see all of the financially oriented workplace design-focused material presented at the Finnish conference.
In the end, to be replicated and respected in the world-at-large, design needs to support desirable financial outcomes, and the practitioners and researchers meeting in Finland often – more often than at other conferences – discussed the links between finance and design.
The next TWR conference will be held in Weimar, Germany, in 2020. See you there! n
Sally Augustin, PhD, is the editor of Research Design Con-nections (www.researchdesignconnections.com). Research Design Connections reports on research conducted by social and physical scientists that designers can apply in practice. Insights derived from recent studies are integrated with clas-sic, still relevant findings in concise, powerful articles. Topics covered range from the cognitive, emotional, and physiologi-cal implications of sensory and other physical experiences to the alignment of culture, personality, and design, among others. Information, in everyday language, is shared in a monthly subscription newsletter, an archive of thousands of published articles, and a free daily blog. Readers learn about the latest research findings immediately, before they’re available elsewhere. Sally, who is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is also the author of Place Ad-vantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wi-ley, 2012). She is a principal at Design With Science (www.designwithscience.com) and can be reached at [email protected].
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r-d connectionRESEARCH-DESIGN CONNECTIONPersonality-Aware Workplace Designby Sally Augustin, Ph.D.
Lindberg, Tran and Banasiak used an online survey to study how personality influences responses to office design. The research team defined extraver-sion as “the degree to which one is outgoing and social, while neuroticism is a measure of negative emotionality (versus emotional stability and even-temperedness) and is positively cor-related with anxiety and unhappiness.”
The Lindberg led team determined that “difference in exposure [to others, as in an open workplace] had rela-tively little effect on perceived control for individuals in the low neuroticism category, but individuals in the high
neuroticism category felt much less control in an exposed work space than in a more enclosed work space.” Additional findings related to extra-version and office design: “While the results were not significant [they are very close to significant]…individu-als scoring high on extroversion rated their performance in enclosed and exposed work-space environments similarly…while individuals scoring low on extroversion [these people were relatively more introverted] rated their performance in enclosed environments higher than their performance in ex-posed environments.”
The researchers concludes that their “findings question the widely held architectural design assumption that physical proximity and open office designs are desirable for social interac-tion and, consequently, improved communication and innovation.” n
Casey Lindberg, Diemtrinh Tran, and Meredith Banasiak. 2016. “Individual Differences in the Office: Personality Factors and Work-Space Enclosure.” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, vol. 33, pp. 105-120.
Sally Augustin, PhD, is the editor of Research Design Connections (www.
researchdesignconnections.com). Research Design Connections reports on research conducted by social and physical scientists that designers can apply in practice. Insights derived from recent studies are integrated with clas-sic, still relevant findings in concise, powerful articles. Topics covered range from the cognitive, emotional, and physiological implications of sensory and other physical experiences to the alignment of culture, personality, and design, among others. Informa-tion, in everyday language, is shared in a monthly subscription newsletter, an archive of thousands of published articles, and a free daily blog. Readers learn about the latest research findings immediately, before they’re available elsewhere. Sally, who is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is also the author of Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Archi-tecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Do-ing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wiley, 2012). She is a principal at Design With Science (www.designwithscience.com) and can be reached at [email protected].
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PRODUCT INTROS>Crossville, Inc. launched the Astral Plane porcelain tile collection. This stone-look product offers “un-precedented” visual depth achieved through multidimen-sional graphics applied during the manufacturing process. “The nuanced appearance echoes the look of stone within natural landscapes,” said Crossville VP of Market-ing Lindsey Waldrep, “This makes it an ideal foundational element for designers who’re focused on integrating the relationship between human-kind and nature into interior design.” The collection’s four hues, designed to answer cur-rent color trends and provide lasting appeal for installations in the long-term, include Altair, an ecru hue with cream highlights; Magellan, a strong, nuanced gray; Pavo, a deep, lush brown; and Draco, a charcoal hue dark like the night sky. Astral Plane comes in three rectified field tile sizes—24”x24”, 12”x24”, and 6”x24”—that are ideal for mixing and matching.
Two mosaic options, a 2”x2” and a random mosaic, invite creativity and versatility. The covebase and bullnose trim allow for fully finished looks. Read More
>Formica Corp. unveiled new DecoMetal® Laminate products. Joining the exist-ing popular line are six new designs, including three new colors: Matte Bronze, Matte Graphite, and Matte Rose Gold; and two new patterns, Oxibronze and Labyrinth. Labyrinth provides design-ers the opportunity to play with geometric patterns to create a custom look. The Labyrinth pattern also brings added design options as a large-scale geometric avail-able in two new colors: Matte
Bronze and Matte Rose Gold. Oxibronze (pictured) is inspired by nature’s living metals. It features an organic fluid effect emulating a metal-lic woodgrain. This design is hand-finished using a layered process of polishing, staining and re-polishing real brass foil to ensure each sheet has a unique and uniform patina. These new designs bring a touch of glamour to vertical applications such as walls, furniture, retail fixtures, sig-nage, exhibits, and displays. Read More
>GAN’s latest collection by Patricia Urquiola, MIRAGE, is designed to be halfway be-tween a carpet and a piece of art. Ms. Urquiola imagined a textile product that induced optical illusions by combining geometry and colors in move-ment. Produced using the hand-knotted technique with
New Zealand wool, MIRAGE is an atypical carpet, not only because of its irregular shape, but because it generates a special effect both in the person who contemplates it and in the space it occupies. It is available in three color palettes: blue, orange and nude. Each one features three main colors and ten color gradients (thirty differ-ent shades in each piece in total), combined in chromatic superpositions that create an illusion of continuity. “There had to be balance and con-nection between the colors and geometries that had neither a beginning nor an end,” said Ms. Urquiola “An-other thing that concerned us was respecting light, both natural and artificial, and understanding how the color variations responded to light and reflected it.” Read More
>Haworth and Kvadrat have partnered to provide a textile offering that coordinates with Haworth’s global prod-uct portfolio. To celebrate, Haworth has debuted two new textiles through this part-nership, Floyd and Melange Nap. Floyd is a discreet and precise upholstery textile offering an optimal combina-tion of manmade and natural
Crossville: Astral Plane
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materials; designed by Åsa Pärson. Melange Nap is a woolen upholstery textile characterized by exceptional depth of color and surprising details; designed by Akira Minagawa. Haworth also launched a prize giveaway for U.S. residents who can enter to win a Haworth Poppy™ chair upholstered in Floyd or Melange Nap, or a Kvadrat Melange Nap bag. Read More
>Ligne Roset announced the North American launch of two innovative high-end so-fas created in collaboration with French-born designers: -Marie Christine Dorner’s latest design, L’Imprevu, is French for ‘the unexpected’ as in the unexpected guest. This sofa, offering various depths, transforms from a two-unit sectional to a two unit queen sized bed. For
commercial interiors, this transformation can also cre-ate a ‘conversation pit.’ The contemporary design is sold, always, as an asymmetric right-armed sofa. It’s the pair-ing of two, three, even four units together that creates a beautifully simple (looking) puzzle. She also creates the option for an added ottoman. Ms. Dorner persuaded Ligne Roset to invest in a special robotic sewing machine that allowed her to achieve her design visions of quilted pat-terns. L’Imprevu offers literally millions of color/upholstery combinations. -Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s Sintra is a more traditional sofa with a classic base for elegance and appeal. Although firmly anchored to the ground, this stream-lined, sloping seating design remains airy with a base in
natural (or anthracite-stained as pictured) solid oak. A reinforcing cross member in mechanically-soldered steel, concealed beneath the seat, avoids the inconvenience of a central support leg, which otherwise would have been required for support, allowing the sofa to look elegant from all angles. Read More
>Tarkett officially launched its latest Cradle to Cradle™ certified rubber flooring collection, Pentagonals. The Johnsonite collection won a NeoCon Gold Award in the Flooring, Hard Surface category earlier this year. Its designs were inspired by one
of the world’s most intriguing geometric puzzles —search-ing for five-sided shapes that tile the plane, or fill a surface without overlapping or leaving gaps. Only 15 such penta-gons have been discovered, and Tarkett selected three of them to debut in this new collection: -Shell (pictured) creates a random or linear pattern on the floor. -Monument is a stately shape that creates direction and a sense of movement on the floor. -Diamond echoes the cut of a precious stone, creating a dazzling floor design. Because Pentagonals are
Haworth partnership with Kvadrat
Ligne Roset: L’Imprevu by Marie Christine Dorner
Ligne Roset: Sintra by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Tarkett: Pentagonals Shell
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officenewswirecrafted from Johnsonite’s time-tested rubber flooring, practically limitless color and texture combinations are available. Pentagonals is available in 142 solid colors and a variety of marble-ized patterns and speckled colorways. A host of different textures add to design options and improve safety. Tarkett also launched an online visualizer for customers to create personalized flooring layouts with Pentagonals. For more complicated designs, the company’s Designer on Demand program is available to assist with custom layouts. Read More
>Tarkett also showcased two new carpet collections at BDNY for the hospitality market. Style’s Life, a new Desso line which represents a well-traveled life, aims to capture WHERE we’ve been, WHAT we’ve seen, and WHO we want to show the world; and Blume, the newest Tempt Concept Collection, shows vintage-inspired florals with a dramatic pop of color. Style’s Life designers Amanda Gala and Lisa Herreth based their patterns on travel souvenirs assembled and reimagined like a painter’s canvas. Designs from the collection are available in any of the following constructions: Ax-minster broadloom and tiles, Injection Dyed broadloom and tiles, Colorpoint, Handtufted, and Infinity. Blume features
blush and crimson blended with cream colors to create an ethereal hint of a flower without the stigma of being old fashioned. The carpet is brought to life using Tarkett’s Vivid tufting technology, a 12-color cut-and-loop CYP machine, to add depth and create the feel of a hand-carved carpet. Read More
NOTEWORTHY>Paul De Cock was promoted to President of Mohawk Industries, Inc.’s Flooring North America segment. He succeeds Brian Carson, who left the company on Nov. 12 to pursue other interests. For the past ten years, Mr. De Cock has served as president of the floor covering division of the company’s Flooring Rest of World segment. In that position, he successfully led businesses manufacturing the company’s major product categories, including carpet, laminate, LVT and wood. After Mohawk’s 2005 acquisition of Unilin, he served as President of the company’s North Amer-ican hard surface business, where he grew the Quick-Step brand in the U.S., integrated the 2007 Columbia wood flooring acquisition and in-creased sales across all chan-nels. After returning to Europe in 2009, he transformed Unilin’s flooring operations from laminate manufactur-ing into a total hard surface business and expanded direct sales through greenfield and the acquisition of distributors in ten markets worldwide. In 2013, he led the integra-tion of Pergo into Mohawk,
improving manufacturing while enhancing the premium brand’s value through perfor-mance and design innovation and product extensions. Prior to the company’s IVC acquisi-tion, Mr. De Cock and his team designed and installed the first automated LVT line in Europe. Most recently, he managed the acquisition of Godfrey Hirst, the larg-est carpet manufacturer in Australia and New Zealand, and the subsequent consoli-dation with Mohawk-owned distributors in those markets. Read More
>Julie Dillon was promoted by ESI to Senior Vice Presi-dent of Sales, US Northeast & Canada Regions. Ms. Dillon has been with ESI for ten years and has been instru-mental in growing her market above the industry average. In her new role, she will be responsible for sales leader-ship, an increased positive customer experience, and market distribution expan-sion. She will report to Todd Holderness, Executive Vice President of Global Sales. Ali Churchman, Vice President of Sales, Canada, will report to Ms. Dillon. Read More
Tarkett: Style’s Life (Top) and Blume (Bottom)
Julie Dillon
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officenewswire>Alicia Zaro was promoted to Studio Manager, Inte-rior Architecture & Design in Ware Malcomb’s Los Angeles office. In this role, she will lead the firm’s Interior Architecture & Design Studio in Los Angeles and manage select projects. Ms. Zaro joined Ware Malcomb in 2014 and has since been on a fast growth path at the firm. She brings extensive interior archi-tecture and design expertise to the Ware Malcomb team, contributing strong design, programming and visioning. She is well versed in all facets of interior design, including space planning, schematic design, design development, and overall project manage-ment. She has managed a variety of interiors projects including creative office, education, retail, hospitality, public, financial and enter-tainment. Read More
>FXCollaborative announced new Senior Associates and Associates. The new Senior Associates: -Max Carr is a project archi-tect on a new mixed-income residential building in Man-hattan. With an integrated and far-sighted approach to a building’s design, he directs
projects through all phases of design and construction. -Sisto Tallini brings a combi-nation of conceptual thinking and a deep understanding of craft to translate the needs of the client and the design team into a successful built project. He is currently a se-nior designer on two residen-tial buildings in Manhattan and Arlington, VA. -Austin Sakong has worked extensively on educational projects, including renova-tions, new building design, and master plans for K-12, higher education, and inter-national institutions. As a proj-ect architect, he is overseeing construction administration for the repositioning of two flagship buildings on Pace University’s campus in lower Manhattan.
The new Associates: -Viktoria Diskina is an architect and urban designer
with a focus on educational, institutional, and residential projects. She is a project architect/project manager on new mixed income residential buildings in Manhattan and Washington, DC., and most recently, a project manager/design leader on a temporary ground mural art installation
at 85 Broad Street in down-town Manhattan. -Cameron Ringness is the project designer on two future museums for New York City–the Statue of Liberty Museum and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. Constantly sketching, visualizing, and exploring, she designs spaces for all ages and cultural back-grounds. -Kimberley Petredis is a proj-ect manager/senior interior designer on two new mixed-income, high-rise buildings in Manhattan. Her work–space planning, furniture and finishes, detailing, and documentation is informed by an understanding of materi-als, context, code, and cost management. -Justyna Mrowiec-Chun is a designer on the new offices for Cornell’s ILR School, and our future office space at 1 Willoughby Square in down-town Brooklyn. She excels at building successful client relationships throughout all phases of the design process.
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FXCollaborative Senior Associates (L-R): Max Carr, Sisto Tallini, Austin Sakong
FXCollaborative Associates – Back row (L-R): Viktoria Diskina, Cameron Ringness, Kimberley Petredis, Justyna Mrowiec-Chun, Richard Barba-rino. Front row (L-R): Shalini Abeyaratne, Tyler Cukar, Rajas Karnik.
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officenewswire-Richard Barbarino works through design both techni-cally and aesthetically in all project phases, and places a high priority on materials selection, research, and de-tailing. He is an architect on a new mixed income residential tower in Manhattan. -Shalini Abeyaratne is on the design team for new offices for Cornell’s ILR School and a new security building for the Statue of Liberty Museum. As an architect and man-ager, she brings project goals and initial ideas into reality, frequently exceeding spatial and functional requirements while maximizing aesthetic qualities. -Tyler Cukar is an urban designer/planner on multiple large-scale master plans in Philadelphia and New York City. He provides expertise in regional growth strategies, district revitalizations, and transit networks and sta-tions, all with an emphasis on social equity and community building. He is the author of Orchestrated Urbanism: The Race Built City, an FXPodium white paper. -Rajas Karnik is a project architect on 1 Willoughby Square in downtown Brook-lyn. He is responsible for taking projects from con-ceptual design to built form and overall coordination with the client, consultant team and other agencies. He is a cofounder of FXOne, our LGBTQ group, and founder and president of Build Out Alliance. Read More
RE-SITED>Rory Carder joined Gensler Phoenix as its new Director of Workplace. Ms. Carder has more than 20 years of experi-ence with a strong back-ground in interior design and business operations. As an award winning and seasoned designer, she has worked on approximately eight million sf of interior projects and led multiple teams throughout every stage of the design process. She was previously President and Managing Director for DAVIS where she helped lead the office’s growth from 12 employees to more than 40. She is involved with the Young President’s Or-ganizations, NAIOP, ULI, and has been featured as one of the ‘Most Influential Women in Commercial Real Estate’ in AZ|RE 2014. Serving as Director of Workplace, Ms. Carder will be responsible for interior design solutions, de-sign conceptualization, client relationships and operations management. Read More
>Mary Mahany joined Consigli Construction as a Project Executive in Pleasant Valley, NY. In this role, she will be responsible for team management and delivery of projects from preconstruction to closeout and assist with business development in the
Westchester market. With 17 years of industry experience, Ms. Mahany was most recently at Turner Construction in New York where she managed proj-ects focused on the healthcare, corporate and residential con-struction markets. Read More
>Taylor Rink joined Inscape as Regional Director of Sales for the Central Region. Based in Chicago, he is responsible for promoting sales of Inscape’s products along with the growth and development of dealers in his territory. Mr. Rink has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience in the contract furniture industry, most recently as District Man-ager for a leading furniture company where he consis-tently exceeded annual sales quotas. He is a member of IIDA and CoreNet Global and Young Leaders and volunteers with the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Read More
>Teresa Rodriguez joined LPA as managing director of the integrated design firm’s fast-growing Dallas office. In her new role, she will lead LPA’s Dallas Interiors studio, with an emphasis on work-place design. She will also take a broad role in other types of projects, reflecting her experience leading teams of designers on high-profile Texas developments. Ms. Rodriguez has worked in the Texas commercial design industry for more than 18 years, helping to create stunning and sustainable spaces for a wide variety of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, higher education facilities, and healthcare cen-ters. She is LEED accredited and has extensive experience in large-scale commercial architectural projects, in addi-tion to corporate design. Read More
EVENTS>The Beverly Willis Archi-tecture Foundation will host its annual two-day Industry Leaders Roundtable Retreat Dec. 3-4 at Perkins+Will in Coral Gables, FL. This year’s event is titled “Women Up: Successfully Navigating the
Rory Carder
Mary Mahany
Taylor Rink
Teresa Rodriguez
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officenewswire#MeToo Business Environ-ment” and will focus on edu-cating senior leadership team members at architecture, engineering and construction firms about gender diversity in the workplace. This program coincides with the Art Basel event and offers individuals an opportunity to network with other architecture firm leaders, HR directors and academics on best practices to change the gender culture of their firm. Speakers include Pat Bosch, Design Director at Perkins+Will; Suzanne Pennasilico, Chief Human Resource Officer at SOM and Vivian Lee, principal at Richard Meier & Partners Architects. Read More
>IIDA NY Rochester City Center on Wednesday, Dec. 5 will present a Lunch & Learn CEU program, “Acoustics – Speech Privacy and Sound Masking in Modern Architec-ture.” It will be held at Merkel Donohue in Rochester, NY, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm. Speaker Blake Auchincloss, Architec-tural Solutions Consultant with Steelcase, will discuss how the trending shift from private offices to open-plan, and the new phenomenon of mobile
work, have increased the need for productive and private workspaces. As technology evolves and privacy invasion becomes of greater concern, it is even more important for employees to feel safe within their work environment. Event attendees will learn about acoustic principals and sound masking technologies that can be used to address these issues. Read More
>The World Architecture Festival 2018, happening this week Nov. 28-30 in Am-sterdam, shared its “Top 10 Must-See Highlights.” These include: -The MaterialDistrict Pop Up pavilion in the main Festival Hall; -Keynote speaker Jeanne Gang, founding principal of Studio Gang, whose speech ‘Beyond Binary’ will address the inherited binary notions of identity; -The ROCKWOOL Workshop on Re-thinking cities; -The annual Architectural Review Emerging Architecture (AREA) awards, now in its 20th year; -A keynote talk by Sir David Adjaye, founder and principal at Adjaye Associates;
-Soluis’ Technology Hub, where visitors can experience the immersive Reality Portal™, featuring architectural projects from around the world; -Closing keynote session by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas; -The Water Research Pro-gramme, a new initiative supported by WAF founder partner GROHE, featuring the winning entrant, a community-led water management system in Peru; -The International VELUX Award for Students of Archi-tecture, a biennial competition which encourages architecture students to explore the theme of daylighting; and -‘The World Building of the Year’ winner, tol be announced at the WAF Gala dinner on Fri-day at the Beurs van Berlage building, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage at the end of the nineteenth century. Read More
>The World Architecture Fes-tival will also feature a wide variety of “fringe events.” These include: -WAF Welcome Reception on the eve of the core WAF program; -WAF Street Takeover on Reguliersdwarsstraat for a night of festivities; -Architect Tours, including boat excursions as well as bus tours of the central waterfront, the Eastern and Western Docklands, and the Amster-dam School of architecture; -Architecture Film Festival, presenting the four winning entries from the 2017 Arch-FilmFest international film competition; and -WAF’s sister event, INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, which will run alongside the ar-chitectural festival, showcasing 2018’s most innovative interiors projects from more than 500 award finalists. Read More
World Architecture Festival highlights - Top (L-R): MaterialDistrict, Soluis Reality Portal; Bottom (L-R): Inaugural Water Research Prize, International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture.
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businessBUSINESS AFFAIRS> AIA’s Architecture Billings Index score for October was 50.4 compared to 51.1 in September. With continued strength in new project inquiries, billings are expected to remain steady into the coming months. The project inquiries index was 58.6, down very slightly from 58.8 in September, and the design contracts index was 52.8, down from 54.1 in September.
“The effects of the 2018 hurricane season are the probable cause of the temporary contraction in billings in the Southern region,” said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker. “This de-crease in demand for design services is limited, and the region should rebound over the next several months.”
The regional three-month moving average ABI was highest in the Midwest (57.8), followed by the Northeast (51.8), South (48.4), and West (46.9). By sector, mixed practice scored high-est (52.7), followed by multi-family residential (52.3), institu-tional (52.0), and commercial/industrial (48.9). www.aia.org/press-releases
>ASID will host a live webinar this Tuesday, Nov. 27 to present findings and insights from its 3rd Quarter 2018 Interior Design Billings Index report. It will be held 1:00-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Economist Jack Kleinhenz of Kleinhenz & Associates and Susan Chung, ASID Director of Research & Knowledge Management, will their analysis, including:
-A rundown and analysis of the market segments and geo-graphic regions that enjoyed a positive 3Q18;
-A look at the key indices from the report and what they sug-gest for the design industry over the next six months; and
-An evaluation of how interior design practitioners interpret the economic climate. Read More
>IIDA released its inaugural IIDA Index, an analysis of eco-nomic health for the commercial design industry. An industry first, the Index, developed with Designer Pages, was created to enable commercial design and architecture firms to assess competitive positions, identify market trends, and analyze new business opportunities based on project scale, geography, and market sector.
The results compare project starts in 2017 to 2016, based on responses from participating firms in 74 offices and nearly 11,000 of their projects across the U.S. The diverse group ranges from small boutique firms to some of the largest in the country. IIDA Members and non-members may purchase access to the IIDA Index Report, while the participating firms have exclusive access to an online dashboard that provides benchmarking information in more detail.
Project data is represented by a diffusion index that assesses growth using a neutral indicator of 50. A value above 50 indi-cates expansion; a value below 50 indicates contraction. The Index categorizes projects by region, project size, and market
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HMiller 32.9 38.4 33.9 32.0 40.1 35.9 -21.4% -3.0%
HNI 37.7 44.2 37.2 36.1 38.6 41.5 -16.9% -3.0%
Inscape 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.2 3.1 3.6 -60.9% -10.9%
Interface 16.3 23.4 23.0 25.2 25.2 21.9 -38.1% -10.4%
Kimball 15.7 16.8 16.2 17.0 18.7 19.8 -22.4% -2.9%
Knoll 19.0 23.5 20.8 20.2 23.0 20.0 -22.0% -7.2%
Leggett 38.0 43.8 44.6 44.4 47.7 47.7 -23.8% -0.2%
Mohawk 126.8 175.4 214.3 232.2 275.9 247.5 -55.8% -8.1%
Steelcase 16.4 18.5 13.5 13.6 15.2 15.4 -15.2% -2.6%
USG 42.9 43.3 43.1 40.4 38.6 32.7 -1.4% 0.5%
Virco 4.4 4.9 4.4 4.1 5.1 5.5 -23.8% 3.6%
SUM 351.4 433.6 452.8 467.3 531.0 491.4
DJIndust 24,286 26,458 24,271 24,103 24,719 22,405 -9.9% -4.2%
Industry Stock Prices
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businesssector, including Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Workplace, and Everything Else (defined as all other commercial projects).
According to the report, the commercial interior design industry experienced moderate to steady growth in 2017 compared to 2016, with an overall index of 59 in the U.S. Additional key results include:
-Robust industry growth in the Midwest with an overall indicator of 75, as well as in the East (70)-Indications of momentum in Education projects in the West (82)-Encouraging segment growth in Hospitality projects (67) in the Midwest-Steady workplace project growth in the South (65)
“We’re pleased to provide the architecture and design com-munities the unique opportunity to leverage the Index to draw comparisons, make informed business decisions, and ultimate-ly shape the future of our industry,” said IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl S. Durst. “In addition to providing valuable insight to industry firms, the results serve to under-score the strength and dynamism of the commercial interior design industry more broadly.”
Viewing the Index data in the context of U.S. financial indica-tors further confirms the commercial interior design industry is growing at a steady rate. IIDA noted that real GDP for 2017 increased 2.3% and the index value for all market segments is 59, which indicates that growth in commercial interiors exceeded GDP in 2017. Read More
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Do you love drafting and details? Have strong math and computer skills? Transwall Office Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of architectural wall systems in West Chester, PA has an immediate opening for an AutoCad Draftsperson.
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> Creating detailed specific drawings of layouts and elevations,
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