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How do you create a workplace that can expand gracefully as a company grows? San Francisco-based Studio O+A confronted that design challenge head-on when working for a repeat customer: wireless [...]

In the late 1880s, The Frye Co. was a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of work boots for local millworkers; today, it is a 'leather lifestyle' company offering its top-selling $350 women's riding [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While aspects of music and fashion from the 1980s may seemingly be cool again, original postmodern interiors and architecture from the decade can feel dated. When New York-based [...]

Black-and-white minimalism is not unusual in interiors. But for a law firm, the look is highly unconventional. And an egalitarian floor plan that eschews traditional hierarchies is still rare in [...]

As a communication designer, Michael Vanderhyl likes to design everything and, thereby, tell a story. Over the course of more than 40 years, the San Francisco-based designer has created countless [...]

Shortly after the first school year began last August, teachers at the new South Harbor School in Copenhagen, Denmark, discovered an interesting problem: They were having trouble keeping track of [...]

Shoehorned behind the existing building by Mario Botta, the new addition to the revamped San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) makes a virtue out of a tight footprint. The [...]

From the Gensler office in Oakland, California, on the top floor of a 20-story building, visitors take in an impressive panorama of the city, as well as San Francisco across [...]

Founded in 1982, the same year that Sun Microsystems, Adobe, and Autodesk got started, the tech company Symantec is one of Silicon Valley's stalwarts. Symantec is best known for its [...]

The grandeur of San Francisco's first large-scale luxury hotel, the Palace Hotel, is unquestionable. Built in 1909, the nine-floor, 556-room hotel is known for its ornate, refined Garden Court and [...]

Any architects designing an important embassy building in Finland--homeland of design icons Eero Saarinen and Alvar Aalto--had better bring their A-game. Inspired by classic modernism as well as the country's [...]

'Bringing the outside in' is not typically a concept associated with healthcare design. That may change with the arrival of more medical facilities such as the Sutter Health/Palo Alto Medical [...]

If you think that ornate, highly detailed movie palaces are a thing of the past, think again. Hong Kong-based design firm One Plus Partnership is dazzling modern-day Chinese audiences with [...]

Financial backer of Etsy, Moleskine, Nasty Gal, and many other startups, Index Ventures is a venture capital firm with design smarts as well as business smarts. Based in London, Geneva, [...]

The quarterly leadership meetings at the global firm IA Interior Architects include an initiation of sorts for newcomers. Firm leaders fly from around the world to one of the company's [...]

Medical tourism is a business that is estimated to generate revenues upwards of $38 billion annually worldwide, as people travel to faraway places for more affordable procedures and better quality [...]

When the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, located in the suburbs of Perth, Australia, opened its facility earlier this year, it was a momentous occasion. Previously known as the [...]

Pinterest is a website that enables people to share their love of design: Everyone can be a tastemaker or style guru of their particular passion. Given the diversity of visions [...]

Stripe is a tech startup that is completely of the moment: A competitor to PayPal, it is a software company that enables online credit card payments. However, its new, laid-back [...]

Menlo Park's Sand Hill Road is famously home to many venture capital firms--the economic engines that power California's Silicon Valley and the Bay Area by providing funding for startup companies. [...]

Imagine you are a banker who has just traveled from your corporate headquarters in Virginia, leaving your suit behind to attend a training seminar at the San Francisco office in [...]

'Clever details make this project stand out. It has a sophisticated palette that is a departure from the typical startup a esthetic, with textures that are both raw and refined. [...]

'This well-executed protect' sets an aspiration. Lively and modern it helps relieve dental visit anxiety. Its design shows sensitivity to the streetscape by both blending in and standing out, and [...]

For an American firm opening a sales office in Milan, one thing seems clear: you have to ratchet your style quotient up a notch. And for Autodesk, the leading maker [...]

The offices of many tech startups are bare-bones, but the founders of Giant Pixel, a company that programs gaming applications, wanted their first office to reflect their love of midcentury [...]

Just an hour north of San Francisco, Sonoma County is an agrarian paradise with gently rolling hills populated by grazing cows, wineries overlooking orderly rows of grapevines, and farm stands. [...]

Technology has made it easier to work from just about anywhere, which presents companies with a double-edged sword: They have unprecedented flexibility in their office layouts, but also the challenge [...]

Lighting is so integral in setting tone and creating ambiance that it seems logical for a global company specializing in commercial lighting systems to create just the right mood in [...]

Start-ups naturally operate in a way that fosters collaboration and a group ethos: When you have four people crammed around a single desk working through the night to get a [...]