Contract Magazine - June 2018 - 20

EDITORIAL

Designing
the
Ever-Evolving
Workplace
We spend so much of our time working that it's important for our
surroundings to be pleasant and healthy spaces for our wellbeing.
As the design of workspaces evolve, and the lines between work
and life blur, workplaces are become more than just offices, bringing
art, food, wellness, and community into business environments.
In this issue, we focus on LinkedIn's New York campus (page 78),
which transforms the myriad amenity areas into spaces for people
to connect. As the world's largest social media networking company,
LinkedIn turned to M Moser to enhance their cafe and multi-use
spaces into a strong sense of community.
If you haven't heard about the innovative New York retail
space STORY, you should. Founded by sisters Rachel and Jenny
Schechtman, this concept store has been rethinking what an
interactive shopping experience can be. The store gets a complete
makeover with a new design, product assortment, and marketing
message every four to eight weeks. The more than 40 iterations
of the store have included everything from yoga and pilates classes
to 3-D printers and laser cutters that customers could play around
with. We visited the store last May-just as it was announced that
Macy's had just acquired it-when it had been transformed into
the "Work/Space" concept, a topic that continues to prompt constant
conversation as businesses and workers figure out open versus
closed environments, co-working, and the merger of home and work
life. STORY starts a dialogue about the future of how and where
we will work with its Work/Place retail-meets-coworking-space
installation (page 86).

A company is only as good as its employees, and a successful,
innovative workplace needs to address the needs of its workers.
For the new headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Company, the use
of art in their workplace is central to that company's ethos. The offices
not only boast a clean, modern design by SOM, it is enriched by
an impressive artwork collection by artists including Candida Höfer,
Hiroshi Sugimoto, and James Turrell, which beautifully enhance
the space. The experience of enjoying art is an important part
of the everyday experience at their company.
Finally, we visit Holder Construction (page 100), an Atlantabased construction and management company that promotes
employee wellness with a thoughtful, human-centric space. Their
goal was to create an environment that appeals to a wide variety
of working styles, foster collaboration, and embody their brand.
Today's most successful workplaces are innovating
to improve happiness, productivity, and wellbeing. Let's continue
the conversation as we use architecture and design to make
our world a better place to live and work.
Neocon and Healthcare Environment Awards
For attendees picking up this issue while visiting Neocon, make
sure to check out our special Neocon preview beginning on page 60,
to help guide you. And for readers who design healthcare, remember
that you have a month to enter the Healthcare Environment Awards,
presented by Contract in partnership with the Center for Health
Design, with a deadline of July 13. The winners are published in
Contract and honored at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference,
which will be held in Phoenix.
Sincerely,
Paul Makovsky
Editor in Chief

JUNE 2018
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