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Seeing the Better City

Seeing the Better City (image: book cover)

Read Time: 9.5 minutes

While big data, digital mapping and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools, using them without on-the-ground personal observation risks creating places that do not reflect authentic local context—the key to the method addressed in "Seeing the Better City" by Charles R. Wolfe.

Thoughtful, Sustainable and Community-focused—Studio Matthews for Design with the 90%

Thoughtful, Sustainable and Community-focused—Studio Matthews for Design with the 90%

Read Time: 7.5 minutes

The third exhibition in the newly launched rotating exhibit space at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center (Seattle), “Design with the 90%,” was a collaboration between the Discovery Center, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York) and award-winning local design firm Studio Matthews.

Interior Architects' Stotz and Badgley to Give Webinar on EGD

Interior Architects' Stotz and Badgley to Give Webinar on EGD

Read Time: <1 minute

IA Interior Architects' Director of Experiential Design, Annelle Stotz, and Studio Director, Amanda Badgley will be giving a free webinar entitled "The Successful Integration of Experiential Graphic Design: Building a Brand-forward Workplace" on Thursday, October 18 at 2 pm EDT. The talk will address the increasing and varied presence of EGD in the built environment and how to plan and build a successful experiential implementation.

Understory at Amazon Spheres

Finalist 2018
Finalist 2019
Understory at Amazon Spheres

The Spheres is the latest addition to Amazon’s downtown Seattle headquarters, and offers employees a work environment shared with over 40,000 plants, bringing them closer to nature as they work.

To explain this groundbreaking new building, Amazon established a free, public visitor center at The Spheres, called Understory. The name refers to the lush habitat between the rainforest floor and canopy and provides a fully immersive, 360-degree experience where visitors can get up close and personal with the science, engineering and plants behind The Spheres.

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