Project Files: Bacardi, Barcelona
New offices for the “rum of the bat” and its brands. In 1864, when two brothers from Catalonia, Spain, bought a tin-roof distillery in Cuba to commercially pursue a pioneering rum-making technique, fruit-bats were nesting in the rafters. A symbol of good health, good fortune, and family unity according to Cuban and Catalonian lore, […]
The Impact of Adaptive Reuse on Economic Development
How Adaptive Reuse is Attracting Talent and Encouraging Economic Investment in Communities Adaptive reuse has a special place in the collective heart of IA. Call us sentimental, but when you’ve been in business since 1984, you learn to appreciate the pillars (both literal and figurative) of the community. As it stands, we’re lucky to be […]
Workplace Design: Integrating the Logo
As a design feature the logo is a compelling candidate. A logo symbolizes an enterprise’s identity; it stands for the brand and all that it promises. As designers and interior architects, incorporating a clients’ logo into a workplace design can be done in many ways, some subtle, others highly creative or quite pronounced. Here are […]
Not All Clinics Are Created Equal
Access to on-site medical care is a benefit being considered by more and more employers every year. Hear from IA’s healthcare team as they identify four of the most surprising differences between a typical medical office and the corporate on-site clinic.
Walls: Beyond the Obvious
Walls offer an additional medium for organizations to tell their stories and celebrate culture and brand. We take a look at a few of the inspired walls IA has created for a variety of clients.
Project Files: ASICS – A Japanese Tradition
Strategically located in downtown Boston, the new 18,000-square-foot second-floor headquarters, dubbed the Creation Studio, spans five contiguous buildings combined into a single floorplate and houses multiple departments. The space features 8 product workrooms (each customized for the team it serves) that simultaneously function as showrooms and magnets for attracting top creative talent.
Inclusivity and Hybridization
As a global firm that works across all continents and market sectors and that boasts in-house expertise in varied specialties, IA has strategic insight into the forces propelling culture forward. A key facet of a designer’s job is being a futurist, identifying common threads that manifest somewhat differently in each industry and region.
One Strategy: Two Locations
After 40 years at Cambridge and 25 years at Rockville, it was time for a dynamic workplace strategy and design that would implement new work modes to further the company’s business objectives, build culture, and optimize future real estate needs.
IA’s Global Practice: What It Takes
Kim Parsley, Seattle Managing Principal, sits down with dIAmeter to discuss the ins and outs of conducting IA’s robust global practice.
"On all sides, the team must be willing to work outside the normal eight-to-five work day."
Saving the Earth With Fungi
Emerging from their culinary role, are mushrooms the industrial material of the future? Are building materials made from fungi really viable?
