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Tackling the Problem of Throwaway Design
A Think Tank Panel weighs in on what to do about interior design’s massive waste problem.
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In Portland, the Adidas Village Connects Creativity, Community, and Sport
Following a national design competition, Adidas selected LEVER Architecture and Studio O+A to realize a 460,000-square-foot expansion of its North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon.
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Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture and design firms across the country have shared numerous toolkits and manuals, but will they help build a future rooted in equity?
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Signs of the Times: Wayfinding in the Age of COVID-19
With the pandemic as the impetus, three design firms reimagine the future of wayfinding, graphic communication, and circulation.
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The Future of Materiality: 5 Key Insights from ThinkLab’s Digital Seminar
A host of experts convened to discuss the future of clean, safe interiors—it has little to do with anti-bacterial surfaces and more to do with behavior and experience.
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Studio O+A Revamps McDonald’s Chicago-Area Research Compound
Bold graphics impose a fun aesthetic on the lab, where the fast-food giant tests its equipment innovations.
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Is There Such a Thing as a “Design Activist”?
A recent Think Tank panel hosted by Studio O+A highlighted, approvingly, of the infiltration of activist language and values into design practice.
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Inside Slack’s New San Francisco HQ
Studio O+A crafts the ultimate workplace for Slack by channeling life on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Will the Culture of Good Taste Devour McDonald’s?
Two new sparkling buildings in Chicago—designed by Carol Ross Barney and Gensler, respectively—demonstrate a new design direction for the ubiquitous fast-food chain.
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Technology Special: The Future of the Workplace
In this special section that appeared in Metropolis Magazine's April 2018 issue, award-winning design firm Studio O+A examines and imagines the future of interiors in a tech-driven world.
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Studio O+A Is Putting a Mobile Design Studio in a Repurposed Food Truck
The studio's Food for Thought Truck will travel the country this summer to provide free design services for rural communities.
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Why Technology Can Be the Enemy of the Creative Workplace
“Creativity” is a big buzzword now for workplace design, but we’re killing that with too-smooth, totally connected offices.
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So Long Conference Room! How Microsoft Envisions the Future Office
With the help of Studio O+A, Microsoft’s Envisioning Center lets the company's employees and customers try out current products and experiment with flexible configurations.