We’re Growing and Looking for New Team Members!
Workplace Architecture + Design, founded (as Workplace Strategies) in 2000, is one of North Carolina’s most cutting-edge design firms. Built on an inside-out, user-driven, and research-based approach to creating thought-forward design solutions for our clients, our energetic and passionate team Read More »
Meet the Team: Alicia Hardin
Alicia has a lot of titles in the company – President, Principal Designer, and she is also our Founder! When she’s not busy doing all the things in the office, you can usually find her reading the latest book on Read More »
Meet the Team: Samantha Luna
The beginning of a new year is always full of fresh things – fresh opportunities, fresh starts, and for us – fresh faces! We’d like to extend a big “Welcome” to our newest Interior Designer, Samantha Luna! And what better Read More »
Meet the Team: Rodney Garner II
Rodney is one of our newest team members so we were excited to see what some of his favorite things are outside of the normal 9-5 day! Where’s the next place on your travel bucket list and why? Rome, Italy Read More »
Meet the Team: Bonnie Null
With twenty-five years of experience in accounting and payroll in various industries, Bonnie keeps things flowing and paid – which are two very important things in any business! When she’s not crunching numbers or signing checks, what keeps Bonnie busy? Read More »
Meet the Team: Jasper D’Haese
Jasper and his family have been in Winston-Salem since 2018 and he joined our team in February of 2019. He’s been an Architect since 2006 – with 13 years of that experience in Belgium. Jasper received his Master in Architecture Read More »
Meet the Team: Danielle Garrison
What would a company be without the team that makes it complete? Since last year was… well, insert whatever word you’d use to describe 2020, we thought it would be fun to re-introduce you to the people that work to Read More »
We’re Looking for New Team Members!
Workplace Architecture + Design, founded (as Workplace Strategies) in 2000, is one of North Carolina’s most cutting-edge design firms. Built on an inside-out, user-driven, and research-based approach to creating thought-forward design solutions for our clients, our energetic and passionate team Read More »
Changing Perspectives — Designing via Partnerships
Design Partnerships with National Accounts As the COVID19 pandemic sweeps through our country and the world, corporations are busy determining their strategic approaches to business continuity, particularly as states begin entering into the restart phase and employees begin returning to Read More »
Restarting Your Workplace
Where To Start Workplace Architecture + Design has worked with many of the leading corporations and institutions locally and nationally in the design of their high-performance work environments. Since we are familiar with their layouts and design, we also know Read More »
The Inside Story of How Studio Creativity Thrives
By Rachael Schmid The power of a well-designed workspace isn’t exactly news. But for the employee who shows up to work at a brand-new workspace, there are few things more impactful on day-to-day quality of life. In the last Read More »
The power of “Design Fixation”
Your first design idea is always the one you feel most confident about. It may not be your best one but you fixate on it anyway. Thirteen professionals from the United Kingdom were asked how to work their way around Read More »
Breakrooms, the Office’s “New” Hangout…
Office breakrooms have always been where an employee goes for coffee in the morning and lunch in the afternoon, but with their outdated designs, no one wanted to stay for an extended amount of time. Now, that’s a thing of Read More »
Powers of 10 – A Story of Inspiration
In 1999, we (Alicia and Peter) toured a special exhibit on Charles and Ray Eames at the Library of Congress – and found inspiration. Though “Eames” is a well-known name in designer circles, and even in the general public with Read More »
Balancing “We” and “Me”
This article, written by Steelcase researchers and published in the Harvard Business Review, really addresses the balance between the top two factors for productivity and satisfaction: The ability to do distraction-free solo work Support for impromptu interactions Which are, of Read More »
Sound Matters
By far, the most informative, unbiased, and useful report EVER on acoustics in the workplace. This universally relevant topic applies directly to the number one factor influencing employee performance and satisfaction – the ability to do distraction free solo work*. Read More »
Designing a Workplace for Wellbeing
Two great design principles used to achieve the project goal: “How can our environment not just contain how work gets done, but be a catalyst [to evolve] the business?” Seizing the opportunity to make a cultural and philosophical change interwoven Read More »
Make way for the Millennials
A more thorough article with great examples of specific space types – particularly the office commons as the new social hub of the workplace. Our experience is consistent with the overall trend toward reducing square footage assigned to individual work-spaces Read More »
Workplace Trends
Searching for the Holy Grail of workplace design? Does it exist? Probably not, or at least it looks a little different for every situation. This article describes some changes in thought and direction that we have definitely been seeing and Read More »
Activity Spaces Defined
How can our building environments and spaces keep up with the fast-paced, ever-changing workforce? Gone are the days when private offices reigned supreme and when the water cooler was the only casual meeting place where you could share a collaborative Read More »