Born between 1997 and 2010, they’re often referred to as Millennials and are very concerned about work/life balance. We’re talking about Gen Z, a group of people who are still undervalued at a corporate level but who are estimated to represent 27% of the workforce by 2025. They are the first global generation to be […]
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The 2022 office in 6 trends
Office and working styles are in constant evolution. The years 2020 and 2021 have seen a radical change in office design due to the pandemic and its impact on people’s movements. The year 2022 is shaping up to be in line with the last two years, putting the ideas we’ve seen emerge in this transitional […]
Designing a lounge area, the new “beating heart” of the modern office
In the middle of lockdown we worked from home. Later, with the lifting of some restrictions, some of us returned to the office. Many, however, adopted new hybrid working formulas, thus not returning to the office life we knew before. As a consequence we’ve become somewhat accustomed to the home atmosphere, to working in complete […]
What is multisensory design and how to implement it
Everyone is different and perceives the environment in various ways. How we approach work, relationships and other activities is also based on this perception. Sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste: each element is linked to one another, triggering different reactions in each individual. Today, more and more architects and designers are taking the five senses […]
The influence of working environments on productivity
“The brain is like a super-computer” True, but not entirely. An electronic computer, no matter how advanced, is indifferent to its environment. An individual’s performance, on the contrary, is more or less linked to the context in which he or she operates. We’ve already talked about this subject in previous articles: design and well-being are […]
Back to the office: how and why to make it more attractive for employees
RTO, or Return to Office. It may seem like an easy event to manage, but it’s not. Or at least not for everyone. Companies with a large number of employees, where remote working has been going on for more than a year, face a challenge they have never faced before. Today, the physical workplace must […]
From indoors to outdoors: open-air workspaces
The pandemic has changed us and our working habits day by day. Trends that were previously confined to particular sectors have started to take hold on a wider scale, accelerating a transformation that has been underway for some time in many parts of the world. One example is represented by open-air offices, or outdoor workspaces. […]
The new Ugolini S.p.a headquarters, from interior to landscape design
63,000 square metres of land and 12,500 square metres of built surface: these are just some of the numbers involved in the creation of the new Ugolini S.p.a. headquarters, a historic Italian company that has been producing refrigeration machines for soft drinks and ice cream for over 75 years. The project was entrusted entirely to […]
Leather furniture for timeless elegance
Leather in furniture has always been a synonym of luxury. In over two thousand years its history has been intertwined with that of the most powerful men and women in the world: the thrones of Arab sultans, the triclinia of Roman patrician families and the sofas of European royalty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. […]
Coffee table: the additional furniture piece that makes all the difference
In the design world we often find useful multi-purpose pieces of furniture that fit into every context that aren’t given proper recognition. In a discreet way they create harmony in the environment, filling those physical or perceptual gaps that can spoil a perfectly good design. The coffee table is one of those pieces: we often […]