Corporate Environments: Market Trends & Expert Insights
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MILLERKNOLL
Dividends Skyline is an architectural recalibration of the open-plan environment.
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FUTURE OF WORK
ALLWORK
HR consultants say that when done intentionally, microshifting can reduce burnout and decision fatigue, giving workers permission to unplug between bursts.
INSIGHT
Rather than being anchored to fixed office assets, the workplace is framed as a more fluid ecosystem combining physical, digital and cultural experiences.
GENSLER
Scenario planning helps forecast future needs, but the only way to truly future-proof your workplace is to allow for it to adapt, flex, and grow as the business does.
WORK DESIGN MAGAZINE
Incorporating principles like soft fascination, fractal patterns and restorative stimuli into architectural design allows us to counter the cognitive fatigue caused by overstimulating modern environments.
hybrid workplace strategies
ALLWORK
When we invest in the two-way benefits of these relationships, we create a culture that’s collaborative, adaptable, and ready for what’s next. That’s how we future-proof this industry.
WORK DESIGN MAGAZINE
For employers, it’s time to stop equating “presence” with “productivity” and start focusing on purpose. Why do people need to come in? What can they only do there? And how can the workplace amplify—not distract from—that work?
WORK DESIGN MAGAZINE
INTERIOR ARCHITECTS
The solution lies in thoughtful, integrated redesign that maximizes the flexibility and functionality of existing spaces. Through purposeful, future-ready design practices, companies and property owners can create workspaces that adapt to fluctuating occupancy.
Enticing people back to the office requires meeting employees where they are. Providing workpoints that enhance the adaptability and convenience they have come to expect and rely on is key as they build their careers and contribute to the success and productivity of the organization.
EDUCATION
GENSLER
Modern training centers play a crucial role in attracting the next generation of skilled professionals. Thoughtfully designed spaces not only showcase the craft, but they also elevate the learning experience through dynamic environments rooted in innovation.
GENSLER
Business schools are placing a heightened emphasis on workforce preparedness and a growing commitment to student support and well-being. These priorities are reshaping campus design and driving the creation of interdisciplinary, flexible learning environments that foster both professional readiness and holistic student success.
GENSLER
The institutions that lead the way will integrate human technical skills into an ecosystem of third spaces — bridging formal education with the development of intellectual and emotional skills, and allowing students to engage in team-based, real-world work that emphasizes human connection. Spaces that practically teach students how to adapt, problem-solve, and persuade, while learning how to use AI, will be most critical.
ED SPACES
Students need spaces where they can engage in animated discussions about literature, work together on multimedia projects, and learn from peer collaboration. The new model embraces controlled noise levels and varied activity zones rather than enforcing uniform silence.
HEALTHCARE
MEDICAL CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN
Hospitality design in healthcare can transform patient and family engagement where every interaction becomes intuitive and immersive to reduce anxiety, support healing and enhance the patient experience.
GENSLER
Healthcare design is already evolving away from a one-size-fits-all approach, so this type of virtual/physical hybrid model at home would accelerate the demand for personalized and specialized medicine even more.
MEDICAL CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN
More patients are turning to technology, influencers and AI for advice. Health systems can boost technology for patient engagement. Patient portals and a strategic use of telehealth can also reduce wait times and broaden care delivery
DIRTT
Emergency departments across the U.S. are facing an unsustainable capacity crisis. Visit volumes continue to rise as aging populations, chronic disease, and limited access to timely outpatient care push more patients toward the ED as a default access point. Systems need new capacity, and they need it fast.
interior architectural soltuions
DIRTT
In aging schools there’s no way to make a change to accommodate that. Building conventionally with drywall, classroom sizes are static even if we don’t need them to be. But building spaces using layered modularity offers versatility.
DIRTT
Designing workplace that supports neurodiversity is not just about being inclusive. It’s about the benefit that choice, variety, and control can bring to everyone, not just people on the spectrum.
DIRTT
DIRTT is working to make a product that truly could be pulled apart and repurposed over and over again to keep it out of the landfill,” says Whited. “In an ideal world, that's what we would do with virtually all products.”
DIRTT
Anyone who has worked on a healthcare construction project knows about long timelines. From early design to occupancy is several months if not several years. The challenge of designing a relevant healthcare space often lies in the fact that the future is unknown.