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The Death of the Office (As We Know It)
CONTRACT MAGAZINE • MAY 2010 • BY GEORGIA COLLINS
“Virtual" in the computational sense of the term, literally means "created. simulated. or carried on by means of a computer or computer network." By this definition, virtual work is nothing new; computers have facilitated our work for many years now. So what is different about virtual work today?
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Closing the Design Gap
THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN STRATEGIES • SPRING 2010 • BY ELLIOT FELIX
How does the design gap come to be? How is it that our environments so often underperform, functionally and even emotionally, leaving a range of basic human needs unmet?

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Cost model: School refurbishment
BUILDING • 19 FEBRUARY 2009 • BUILDING, ANDREW HARRISON (DEGW), JOHN MCEVOY AND NICK CHRISCOLI (DAVIS LANGDON) •
Continuing this week’s focus on the renewal of the school estate, Simon Rawlinson and Paul Zuccherelli of Davis Langdon review one of the biggest challenges facing the BSF programme.
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Space for Personalised Learning West Hill Pilot, London
WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS.COM • 28 FEBRUARY 2010 •
The Space for Personalised Learning team provide West Hill Primary with a newfound ecosystem of space and flexibility.
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DEGW - Creator of Google's workplace concept - is now in Istanbul
EMLAKKULISI • MIDMAP.ORG • ARKITERA.COM • NTVMSNBC • HABERLER • TASARIM • YDUARCH.COM • FEBRUARY 2010 •
DEGW, Levent`de ilk ofisini açtı!
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2020 visions: How work and the workplace will change in the coming decade
New York Post • FEBRUARY 22, 2010 • BY BRIAN MOORE
The New York Post checked in with various experts, including Andrew Laing, PhD, Managing Director, DEGW North America, and got a range of predictions, from “smart desks” and sexual harrassment via hologram to fundamental changes in the ways workers will function and interact
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DEGW appoints new director
FM World • 22 FEBRUARY 2010 •
Nigel Oseland has recently left Alexi Marmot Associates and joined DEGW as director of strategy.
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John Worthington - ziet een nieuw type stad ontstaan
DE ARCHITECT • DECEMBER 2009 • BY AUTEUR HARM TILMAN
Volgens u hebben steden een andere opzet dan vijftig jaar geleden. Wat is precies een 'networked metropolitan region?'
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Top 10 EDUCAUSE Review articles from 2009
EDUCAUSE Review • JANUARY 2010 • BY ASHLAN SARFF
Shirley Dugdale, Director of Learning Environments, DEGW North America, article on Space Strategies for the New Learning Landscape, makes the ten most widely read online EDUCAUSE Review articles from 2009.
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Bringing Co-Working to the Streets: An Interview with DEGW's Antonina Simeti
I (heart) Public Space • JANUARY 2010 • BY MEGAN CANNING
I (heart) Public Space, the staff blog of the Design Trust for Public Space, interviews DEGW's Antonina Simeti about Breakout!, a festival of co-working sessions in public spaces.
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Financial-Services Firms: Banking on Big Design Changes
Hq. • DECEMBER 2009 • BY ANDREW LAING
Mobile-work strategies save space, while fundamental shifts in architecture facilitate collaboration and cut carbon footprint.
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Tree House Headquarters | JWT New York
Hq. • DECEMBER 2009 • BY HQ EDITORIAL STAFF
Advertising power JWT uses a trunk/branch concept to connect employees, foster creativity
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This is an office?
New York Post • 26 OCTOBER 2009 • BY CHRIS ERIKSON
The New York Post delves into how the workplace of the 21st century is shaping up with words from Andrew Laing, Managing Director, DEGW North America.
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Beyond the cubicle: JWT
New York Post • 26 OCTOBER 2009 • BY CHRIS ERIKSON
When Rosemarie Ryan became president of JWT New York in 2004, she swept into the office deterimined to change the company's culture. When she caught sight of its Lexington Avenue headquarters, she knew she has to start with the office itself. DEGW worked with architect Clive Wilkenson to conceive and create the new space.
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60 Seconds with Frank Duffy
New York Post • 26 OCTOBER 2009 • BY CHRIS ERIKSON
Frank Duffy, Founder of DEGW, talks about what's wrong with the "modern" office
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Thinking companies
D-LA REPUBBLICA DELLE DONNE • OCTOBER 2009 • BY MICHELE CALZAVARA
"The invisible cloud of electronic connectivity that now surrounds us all, wherever we are, means that the use of buildings and cities over time has become a critically important variable in environmental design.
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Rethinking the Future of Office Design
Architect Magazine • OCTOBER 2009 • BY HANNAH MCCANN
Information technology has changed—and continues to change—how we work in the 21st century. What does this mean for office design? Andrew Laing has an idea. The managing director of design consultancy DEGW North America has partnered with office product manufacturer Humanscale for a traveling seminar series, "Directions for Change in the Design of the Workplace." What's it all about? Laing—whose next presentation will be at the New York Humanscale showroom on Nov. 10.—spoke with ARCHITECT about it.
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DEGW featured in The Straits Times Singapore: "Workspace - The Next Frontier"
THE STRAITS TIMES • AUGUST 24 2009 • BY ROBIN CHAN
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JWT's Offices: Designed for Telling Tales (and BS-ing with Friends)
FAST COMPANY • AUGUST 2009 • BY CLIFF KUANG
Behind the scenes at the recently completed New York headquarters of the agency formerly known as J. Walter Thompson.
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A Film Celebrating the Completion of the JWT New York Headquarters
CWE Newsletter • AUGUST 2009 • BY CLIVE WILKINSON ARCHITECTS
DEGW collaborated with Clive Wilkinson Architects to create a transformative work environment, invigorating the way that JWT looks, feels, and operates. This film by Clive Wilkinson Architects celebrates the completion of the 250,000 SF New York Headquarters of JWT.
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A Walk with Frank Duffy
URBAN OMNIBUS • JULY 2009 • BY ROSALIE GENEVRO
Frank Duffy, Founder, DEGW, and Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, Architectural League of New York, reflect on the buildings of Lower Manhattan, critically assessing what our use of commercial space can tell us about our changing city.
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Should architects become more active in politics?
BD THE ARCHITECTS' WEBSITE • MAY 2009 • BY FRANK DUFFY + EMMA DENT COAD
Yes, architects need to get involved, says Kensington & Chelsea councillor Emma Dent Coad, but Frank Duffy counters that architects should spend their time on good design ideas not the nitty-gritty of politics.
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GlaxoSmithKline: Human Resources and Innovation Hubs Drive Organizations Renewal
ECIFFO • SPRING 2009
Human resources and Innovation Hubs drives organisational renewal. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world's second largest pharmaceutical company, announced that it wanted to double its growth in its Consumer Healthcare business over five years. To help, it installed new workspaces - 'Innovation Hubs' - for brand-centred cross- functional teams.
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New Environments for Workers
URBAN OMNIBUS • 30 APRIL 2009 • BY ROB KELLEY
Rob Kelley recaps DEGW's "Work and the City," a talk about how the changing nature of work is transforming our workplaces, buildings, and cities.
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Ground Zero towers face 20 year delay, says report
BD THE ARCHITECTS' WEBSITE • APRIL 2009 • BY ANNA WINSTON
Richard Rogers and Norman Foster’s towers for New York’s Ground Zero site may not be completed for another 20 years, according to a leaked report commissioned by the city’s Port Authority
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Q&A with DEGW's Bernice M. Boucher: 'Technology is changing the face of the workplace'
BUILDING DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION MAGAZINE • APRIL 2009
Bernice M. Boucher joined DEGW, an international design consultancy specializing in work and learning environments, in 2008 as director of North American operations. Previously, she served as workplace strategist for Deutsche Bank in the Americas and as global account manager and finance industry team leader at Steelcase, where she earned the company's Stewardship Award. She holds a BA in fine arts (in design) from George Washington University and participated in the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Executive Education Program.
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Sentirse como en casa
EL MUNDO • March 2009 • by Alicia Velasco
Que la gente vaya a trabajar con este espíritu es el objetivo de DEGW. Esta empresa se dedica a adaptar la oficina a los diferentes estilos de trabajo y el resultado pasa, en muchos de los casos, por incluir desde cristaleras para que los trabajadores se sientan en contacto, hasta grandes zonas de relax y descanso con cómodos sillones y juegos.
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REPORT 01 | Flächenoptimierung
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser,
erfolgreich beraten heißt für uns aus der Vergangenheit zu lernen, aktuelle Herausforderungen zu erkennen und gemeinsam mit unseren Kunden die Chancen des zukünftigen Wandels zu nutzen. Im Blickwinkel der derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen bedeutet dies, eine kurzfristige Handlungs- und Entscheidungsfreiheit zu ermöglichen, um zeitnah und effektiv auf sich ändernde Marktsituationen reagieren zu können.
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Stimulating Environments Enhance Creativity
PROYECTO CONTRACT MAGAZINE • MARCH 2009 • BY ROSA MILLET
Qué es exactamente DEGW?
Somos una consultora de diseño internacional especializada también en la planificación de los espacios de trabajo. Fundada en el año 1973, actualmente dispone de doce oficinas situadas en Europa, Asia Pacifico y Norteamérica. Sus siglas son las iniciales de los cuatro arquitectos que la fundaron: Duffy, Elly, Giffone y Worthington.
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Space Strategies for the New Learning Landscape
EDUCAUSE REVIEW • MARCH/APRIL 2009 • BY SHIRLEY DUGDALE
This is an interesting and challenging time for planners of physical spaces in education. In the past decade, learning has become richer and more complex: technology is generating myriad new ways of learning and the tools to support them; students are seeking more collaborative and immersive experiences; the demands of interdisciplinary research are stimulating new academic relationships and interactions; and learning is just as likely to happen in virtual space as in physical space. With the support of distributed access to digital resources and mobile devices, learning and discovery can happen anywhere.
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A Case Study in Master Planning the Learning Landscape Hub Concepts for the University at Buffalo
EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY • SPRING 2009 • BY SHIRLEY DUGDALE, ROGER TORINO and ELLIOT FELIX
This case study describes concepts for three types of learning spaces that grew out of a Learning Landscape planning process. The process was part of a master plan study for the three campuses of the University at Buffalo. It involved research into user needs and aspirations about future pedagogy, development of learning space strategy, campus-scale planning principles, and concepts for exemplary spaces.
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Firm to help plan future of campuses
OTAGO DAILY TIMES • 25 MARCH 2009 • BY JOHN GIBB
The University of Otago is using international consultants to help research and prepare campus master plans to guide development of the university's campuses in Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington.
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What if all the students dry up?
THE GUARDIAN • 24 MARCH 2009 • BY PETER KINGSTON
Let us suppose that instead of the UK being a net importer of students, this situation were reversed. What would happen to our universities over the next 20 years if the flow of young people coming to study from overseas dried up and increasing numbers of home students chose to go abroad for their higher education?
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BBC shortlists nine for £200k fit-out job
BUILDING • 2 MARCH 2009 • BY DAN STEWART
The BBC has shortlisted nine architects to tender for an interior design job at its Broadcasting House development in central London.
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