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The best use of workspace requires the analysis of human behaviour . Designers use their creativity, experience and knowledge to deliver results that would show an improvement for desired human behaviour at work testing a variety of spacious elements. As workspace designs are becoming more complicated, expectations increase accordingly. The psychology of human in the workplace raises many questions and improvements for the next generation of office design. While the focus on collaborative behaviour was high in the last few years, the concern was raised for those who finds it challenging and need more relaxed and quit space. Thus, open-space design slightly changed and innovations were brought within offices to increase individual spaces within the workspace, thus it is more common to see work cubes that would separate space and provide individual space in today’s working environments . The issue was to find a balance between collaboration and concentration. The s...

One well known architect Bestor B. is well known for creating pop culture style designs in various types of buildings. She has also took a part Beats Electronics workspace as it faced a challenge of making a space for 600 employees from only 16 employees at the beginning.  The company mostly known for its headphones - marketed as Beats by Dre - was bought by Apple and consequently all operations were undertaken and relocated in Culver city. An architect Bestor has decided to remodel 2 floors with a limited budget and create modern, urban style that would reflect companies’ culture. The whole process of accomplishing a full transformation in the warehouse has taken 12 months. An architect decided to retain some of the existing architectural features such as columns and also removed existing walls. Also, in order to add drama and style to the organisational space, Bestor and other architects created an open-design office that has common area where all people can colla...

If you decide to plant more plants just to make the office space more cosy you should also know that it will be good for your business in general. According to University of Queensland research, plants can increase employee productivity by around 15 per cent. According to co-author Alex Haslam, having green colours in the office has a hidden meaning behind – it indicates that employer care about its workers and their welfare. Moreover, office plants can make the space more enjoyable and comfortable to work in, which results in business profitability. The study by University of Queesland has discovered that there are obvious long-term effects of green surroundings that make an influence on employees’ productivity. The study was implemented in the UK and Netherlands. Few offices that were comparatively small and with minimalist interior design had more greenery as perceptions of workplace satisfaction, air quality and concentration were monitored for a couple of mon...

Minimalist designs with stainless steel design is a popular feature in luxury properties . Movable floor has also became a popular choice allowing to change the pool in to a different space such as party room, while a game room can be transformed to a cinema room. According to many home  interior designers, the pool size matters as it is an attribute of wealth status for most people. Thus, whether it is a mansion or an iceberg style home , meaning that house is bigger under the ground than above, the size of pool is an essential set to show the enormous wealth. Luxury property developers also pay attention towards various other amenities such as inside gym, luxurious spa, a wet bar, Swarovski-crystal waterfall, Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, ice fountain as well as plenty of seating places with bubbles and jets. Property designers’ advice not to overplay with gold-leaf mosaics and LED lights, as less is more approach works better when designing a pool area. Moreover, ...

According to Griem , interior architect , one of the most important finishing touches while planning home interior are flooring design. Firstly, it is important to consider the functional and practical aspects of the flooring. In countries where warmer climate prevails, a hard surface should be used as the indoor and outdoor activities merge and thus cleaning would be easier when the floor is made of tiles, natural stone or similar hard material. Because of the advanced technologies, there are variety of styles of floor tiles to choose from, including images of natural stone. The trending floor style is large floor tiles that reminds of slabs. Some people prefer porcelain tiles as it appears to be very realistic and natural. Another choice is wood that provides a feeling of warmth. It is also advised to use hardwearing wood flooring, it provides an organic look. Also there are variety of colour lights to choose from as well as the lengths and widths. 

The contemporary office design features an open-space interior design. Most of the reasons behind it is the rapid expansion of new technology that allows us to communicate and work with less restrictions than ever before. Although there are plenty advantages of an open-plan workspace, including increased flexibility, collaboration, creativity, there are some disadvantages also. People who work in open-space office complain that they are distracted much easier and more often by their colleagues, moreover, employees say that the lack of privacy affects their work effectiveness also. In order to deal with such issues, some organizations have thus created special spaces in the offices where employees can work on their own without any distraction. For example, one of the new Coca-Cola's offices in London, have considered the negative aspects of hot-desking and designed their offices in a way that each employee has its own desk. As a result, it should provide employees with more p...