The design for Alibaba’s Shanghai headquarters by the U.S. firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) reveals a distinctive, modular layout reliant on expansive column-free, long-span spaces and a variety of enclosed areas to accommodate a diversity of workstation layouts to suit expanding, contracting and overlapping teams.
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Architecture firm Dyer Brown has renewed Sappi North America’s Boston, Massachusetts, headquarters by using environmentally friendly finishes, materials, and fixtures to meet sustainability and employee health goals.
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Woodland Park Zoo Seattle, Washington, has found a solution to heat and humidity loss in the Komodo Dragons enclosure with the use of special energy-efficient daylights, without having to build a new enclosure.
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