How can museums be more inclusive and welcoming of the world around them? It starts with thoughtful approaches to planning and design, says architect Erin Flynn, a leader in the cultural practice at Cooper Robertson, with success through a wide-ranging focus on diversity, starting in the earliest phases of programming and conceptual design.
A recent survey of corporate real estate professionals by Colliers and CoreNet Global suggests a marked trend toward smaller office workplaces, with roughly four in five respondents expecting to reduce their overall office footprint by 10 to 50 percent and planning to move up to half of traditional leases to flex leases within five years.