CannonDesign

Zurich North America’s HQ outside Chicago is rooted in one of the most expansive employee engagement efforts in history, and the extensive data it generated. Photo courtesy CannonDesign
The traditional model of signing long-term leases, committing extensive capital to an inflexible solution, and then calling it a day is no longer v...

Rice University’s New Emerging Science & Technology (NEST) Center includes collaboration portals located across its floorplan designed for spontaneous interaction and defined by bright green, writeable glass panels. Photo courtesy CannonDesign
Simply putting researchers and clinicians in the same building with hopes that serendipitous collaborations will ensue will often not yield the out...

The relationship between workplace design and company culture isn’t all that different from a tango.

The relationship between workplace design and company culture isn’t all that different from a tango.

Responding to these shifting expectations, building owners and design teams working in other markets now regularly embrace leading ideas from the w...

CannonDesign recently shared new images of two collegiate sports projects with interesting ties to college basketball past, present and future.
...
Cities change constantly, but given the numerous disruptive factors spanning technology, policy, climate and more that will impact 2018 – it could...

Pixabay Public Domain
The Golisano Center for Community Health offers integrated care to adults and children.

Connecting personal values to company values is important to millennial workers.

Now more than ever, owners are becoming extremely focused on leveraging BIM to deliver their projects.

Rendering for the new Afganistan International Organization for Migration.
The communications challenges don’t even begin to compare to the inherent challenges of designing for a developing nation, writes CannonDesign's Mi...

Pixabay Public Domain
We consistently recommend that workplaces share collaborative spaces and quiet, private spaces, writes CannonDesign's Chris Lambert

Warehouse Office Community Space. Images courtesy Cannon Design
CannonDesign's Robert Benson insists that the industry needs to start looking at traditional office spaces differently.

Image: University Student Living.
The city wants to add 18,500 student residence beds by the year 2030. CannonDesign's Lynne Deninger identifies three strategies that will help scho...

Ohlone Community College’s Academic Core project in Fremont, Calif., introduces three new academic hybrid buildings that build community and enhance learning. Rendering courtesy CannonDesign
Even in the face of funding challenges and historic precedent, there are emerging examples of how partnership between two-year academic institution...

All images courtesy CannonDesign
Fighting cancer, Design-Led Construction (DLC), and health sciences education are among the new efforts and developments, writes Cannon Design's De...

Rendering of an interior environment at University of Utah’s Lassonde Studios, a first-of-its-kind hybrid building that brings college housing together with a 24/7 entrepreneurial garage. Images courtesy Cannon Design
Educational institutions are focusing on new learning strategies that engage students in activities, enable collaboration across STEM disciplines,...

Allegheny Health's Wexford Health & Wellness Pavilion. Image courtesy Cannon Design.
Lou Astorino shares four examples how a unified approach can directly help C-suite leaders achieve their organizational goals.

Image courtesy CannonDesign
Properly inspecting footballs is not unlike commissioning protocol, writes CannonDesign's Brett Farbstein.

Image: University of Minnesota Health Clinics and Surgery Center, courtesy CannonDesign
No longer coasting off of reputation, leading organizations are using new ambulatory care centers to re-brand for the future of healthcare, writes...

Image: Pixabay
Just as we looked at that boarded up warehouse and thought it could be something other, office towers can be reborn, writes CannonDesign's Robert B...

Cannon Design used strategic solutions when developing the new Zurich North America headquarters. Image courtesy CannonDesign
Rather than be confused by the constant stream of opinions, leadership teams contemplating workplace investments should start with powerful employe...

Graphic depicts an example of a primary care model of the future. In many primary care settings, a team consisting of a primary care clinician, medical assistant, registered nurse, and administrative assistant are responsible for a panel of patients, helping to facilitate interactions with other members of an extended care team that may need to be involved. Illustration: CannonDesign
As healthcare systems shift their care models to be more responsive to patient-centered care, ambulatory care teams need to be positioned to operat...

Photo: CannonDesign
In a recent article for Fast Company, CannonDesign's Meg Osman details how insurance giant Zurich used a workplace pilot program to empower its emp...

Photo: CannonDesign
The new report, "Flooring Applications in Healthcare Settings," compares and contrasts different flooring types in the context of parameters such a...

The breakthrough simulation center features moveable walls and a modular ceiling grid that allow doctors and military personnel to easily reconfigure the shape and size of the space. Photo: CannonDesign
The breakthrough simulation center features moveable walls and a modular ceiling grid that allow doctors and military personnel to easily reconfigu...

Photo: Christopher Barrett Photography
Focusing on recent work at Follett and Zurich, CannonDesign’ Meg Osman reveals the power of research, strategy, change management, and measurement...

The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah combines student residence space with 20,000 sf of incubator space, where students can develop ideas and potential launch companies. Rendering: CannonDesign
Performance-based funding models and the adoption of advanced technologies like augmented reality for teaching are just a few of the predictions of...

If you’ve been following news about workplace design in the popular media, you might believe that the open workplace has run its course. While ther...

A recent study by Carnegie Mellon took a look at the impact of providing feedback in an energy dashboard form to workers and studying how it impact...