Good Design Is Good Business

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A commercial real-estate giant with an interest in adaptive reuse relocated its Universal City office to a larger space in the L.A. metro area.

As as the Portland, Oregon–based strategic creative agency sought a new home for its 150 employees, an opportunity emerged right under its nose.

The world's largest financial institution sought to reinvogorate the company by moving its Mexico City operations out of the suburbs.

A $52 million project has doubled the Minnesota Orchestra's event revenues and created opportunities for valuable community outreach.

With the goal of attracting talented new employees, a global company built a new headquarters building in Austin, Texas.

In its 19th year, Architectural Record’s annual Good Design is Good Business Awards recognizes exemplary architectural solutions that were instrumental in the growth and success of a range of businesses—from startups to not-for-profits to major corporations.

In spite of users’ grumbling about noise, distractions, and lack of privacy, the open-plan workplace—in its post-cubicle incarnation, with flexible, casual seating, and ample places to commune and play—continues to gain dominance in office design.

For the first permanent home of SFJAZZ in its 35-year history, organization founder and executive artistic director Randall Kline sought to bridge that dichotomy.

Roughly five years ago, the leaders of Swedbank decided to move their operations out of the office building they had occupied for four decades in the heart of Stockholm.

You don't need retail savvy to sense the success of the two-year-old women's shoe department on the second floor of Macy's Herald Square.