Clive Wilkinson Architects championed open offices for big companies such as Google and Microsoft. Now, as the pandemic has led to a massive overhaul of work life, they envision something completely ...

Kelso Harper: Do you hate your open-plan office? Are you even in an office anymore? COVID changed how we use office spaces, and now many employers are starting to rethink their design. Today, we’re ...

From open plans to hybrid zones, every design choice sends a message. Here’s how the right balance between openness and privacy builds real trust in today’s workplaces. Workspaces influence employees’ ...

Maybe open office spaces have initiated the halcyon days of productivity, or perhaps they’re a harbinger of workplace productivity doom. It all depends on whom you ask. Open offices were meant to be ...

Osaka, Japan - Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel framework for measuring occupancy in open-plan offices with unprecedented precision. This innovative system uses computer ...

Frank Lloyd Wright first came up with the concept of the open-plan office in 1906, in the Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, United States. The innovative nature of this approach, at the beginning ...

An open-plan layout—also known as open concept—is a design term used in residential and commercial architecture that refers to large, open spaces without enclosed rooms or walls (in office spaces, it ...