Ideas

Jul 2019

Is Your Workplace a Destination or an Obligation?

If you ask people why they come into the office, you’ll get a wide range of answers. Some come for connection. Some come for structure. Others come simply because it’s expected. Increasingly, the organisations winning the talent and engagement race are the ones designing workplaces people want to come to, not the ones they feel they have to.

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Jul 2019

Why Your Workplace is One of Your Strongest Brand Assets

Your workplace is one of the strongest expressions of your brand. It influences how your team feels, how clients experience your organisation, and how work culture takes shape.

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Jul 2019

Future-Proofing Your Workplace: Designing for an Unknown Future

If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that predicting the future is a risky game. Work patterns shifted almost overnight. Technology advanced faster than many fitouts could keep up.

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Jul 2019

How Workplace Design Shapes Organisational Culture and Behaviour

Culture can seem intangible, but you notice it the moment you walk into a workplace. You feel it in the welcome, hear it in how people greet one another, and see it in how teams gather, focus, celebrate wins, or step in to support each other when it matters most.

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Jul 2019

The Best Workplace Transformations Start with this One Key Question

Before diving into design upgrades, new furniture, fresh layouts, take a moment to pause. The most successful transformations begin by asking one fundamental question.

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Jul 2019

A Lost Art?

Jane Hill, Senior Principal and Architect at Chow:Hill shares her views on the art of developing a project brief.

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Jul 2019

Whatever Happened to the CBD?

The Central Business District, as we have known it, is quite probably a thing of the past. The Covid-19 pandemic has merely accelerated the changing character of downtowns amidst poorly rented lower-grade commercial buildings, infrastructure under-investment, cheaper land elsewhere and remote working practices.

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Jul 2019

Opinion: These Five Things…

Chow:Hill Senior Principal Brian Squair shares his thoughts on five themes in Aotearoa’s property sector with Property Council New Zealand.

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Jul 2019

A-Game Essential in Pandemic-afflicted Construction Climate

In today’s covid-climate, those in the architecture and design industry need to bring their A-Game when it comes to design thinking and supply management. Chow:Hill director, Brian Squair, recently discussed some of the strategies being adopted in response to construction supply constraints.

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Jul 2019

Graduates Cultivate Design Curiosity

At Chow:Hill, we encourage graduates to think differently, a key way to implement innovative ideas and push boundaries within our industry.

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Jul 2019

Kotahitanga Bridge Design to Create Unity

Behind every good design is an even better story. A story that aims to connect and shape people’s experiences of an environment.

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Jul 2019

Student Accommodation Design Trends

Creating collaborative learning and living spaces: Chow:Hill discusses the emerging design trends in student accommodation.

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Jul 2019

Learning Curve: How is Disruption Refining the Purpose of Education?

Jane Hill recently wrote a thought-provoking reflection on the challenges of Learning Environment design.

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Jul 2019

Tertiary Sector Research: Conference Insights

Chow:Hill Director Jane Hill recently attended a series of tertiary-focused conferences as part of Chow:Hill’s research and knowledge development in the sector.

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Is Your Workplace a Destination or an Obligation?

Why Your Workplace is One of Your Strongest Brand Assets

Future-Proofing Your Workplace: Designing for an Unknown Future

How Workplace Design Shapes Organisational Culture and Behaviour