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DESIGNING A HOME WORKPLACE When I first started working from home in 1994, I began in what I now call a "first-step home workplace." I commandeered a den on the first floor of our house and moved in office furniture and computer equipment I already owned, shuffling them around to achieve the best fit given the existing conditions of the room.
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THE TEA ROOMS OF MACKINTOSH Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is famous for his tea rooms, and he deserves to be. The Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street were among his most original buildings and the most complete in their scheme of decoration and furniture. In the Salon de Luxe, the inner sanctum of the Willow, the waitresses even wore chokers and dresses designed by Mackintosh.
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NURSING UNITS EVOLVE Acute-care units in U.S. hospitals face challenges: low satisfaction levels for patients and caregivers, ineffective materials flow, lack of storage, inefficient use of beds, and a shortage of nurses, technicians, and other health workers. Reduced reimbursements don't help, nor does a diminishing supply of operational capital. To top things off, design has often magnified these problems, when it should be helping to alleviate them. But how? What should the acute-care unit of the future look like?
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More Building Culture Historic House Due for Spring Cleaning — Baltimore Sun, 2002.0114Book on Washington Monument Creator — Yahoo News, 2002.0114 A Home Tailor-Made for Bilbo Baggins — Los Angeles Times, 2002.0114 Architectural Firms Are Hiring despite Downturn in Billings — Albany Business Review, 2002.0114 Conservationists Battle for Heart of York — Guardian Unlimited, 2002.0114 Chain of Castles Bears Testimony to Resilience of Welsh Culture — Boston Herald, 2002.0113 The Joy of Living on the Edge — News Observer, 2002.0113 Americans Spurn Modern Houses — Baltimore Sun, 2002.0113 Hotel Plan Attacked as Cheap and Nasty — Scotsman Online, 2002.0112 Owners of New and Old Houses Alike Pump Up Demand for Architectural Antiques — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2002.0112 An Architect’s Playground — Scotsman Online, 2002.0112 Office Space Allows Architects to Share in Their Success — Washington Business Journal, 2002.0111 Food Stores That Fit In — Chicago Tribune, 2002.0110 Stafford Claims Success in 2001 — Fort Bend Sun, 2002.0110 Building Armenian Cultural Center Step Closer — Denver Post, 2002.0109 Instead of a Fancy Restaurant, Raw Wood — New York Times, 2002.0109 Old Train Station Gets New Life — Herald-Mail, 2002.0109 Supreme Court Limits Disability Law in Case of Worker with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome — Manufacturing.Net, 2002.0108 Much Ado about Plan to Raze Shakespeare Stage — International Herald Tribune, 2002.0108 BBC & EH Reveal Mysteries of The Iron Bridge — Architects' Journal, 2002.0108
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