Private offices typically house the highest paid workers within an organization, and they usually allot more square meterage per person than open plan. While many private offices have remained essentially unchanged for decades, the rest of the workplace has changed dramatically — cross-functional teams, multitasking, creative thinking, group processes – the grown-up equivalents of “plays [...]
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What sort of office should a CEO have?
Traditionally CEO’s have always occupied the largest office on the top floor, where you may only enter upon invitation. However, there is now a move away from this previous statement of power and authority to one that is closer to the worker on the ground floor, hoping to create more of a partnership with employees [...]
How the workplace can improve collaboration
By Linda Trim, Director of Giant Leap. Whether you design, manage or work in them, we can help you create high-performance, sustainable work environments that bring people together to focus, collaborate, socialize and learn. Converging spatial, social and informational trends are creating demand for workplaces that support new patterns of collaboration. Collaboration is one of [...]
A visible success
Strong visibility from one of the busiest arterials in Johannesburg is a key facet of Bryanston 88, the new M/Architects-designed Barrow Properties office development set on a prime site overlooking the N1 ring road at the William Nicol off-ramp Bryanston 88, a building which is hard to ignore, was recently completed by Barrow Construction [...]
Getting the mix right
As a successful construction company, highly skilled and delivering contracting services to the office, industrial, retail and hospitality markets, Probuild appointed I.Scope Interior Architects to undertake the redesign of their existing offices
Photographs by Chad Cocking
Investing in comfort
With offices continually moving away from the dour, staid atmospheres of yesteryear, Leading Architecture & Design approaches the leading manufacturers from across the country to find out what they believe are the latest and greatest trends in office interiors. Q In your experience, what is the latest trend that you have seen emerging in office [...]
Latest Issue - May/June 2012
In This Issue:
- The Alexander Forbes head office campus by Paragon Architects
- The New Jerusalem Children’s Home by 4D+A Architects
- The Quarterdeck by CHT Architects
- The 2012 Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards
- Paragon Architects profile
