What We are Reading
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Plenty of Plants: Greens are good for you (OnOffice) How New York has changed over time: 13 Before & After Photos That Show The Changing Face Of New York City (Guest of a Guest) Well-being plays in a person’s success: The Importance of Work-Life Balance and Health (Huffington Post) It’s rooftop season: 10 Incredible Hotel Rooftops From Around The World (Contemporist) Please prepare for departure: LaGuardia Airport’s New $4.2B Terminal Cleared for Landing ( Commercial Observer) Workspace Design Checklist: 7 Factors of Great Office Design (Harvard Business Review) What’s in store for the future: How will Generation Z disrupt the workplace? (Fortune) Don’t go Blaming your office: Creative Office Design Won’t Make You Better At Your Job, But This Might (Fast Company)

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Interesting Articles from Around the Internet
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Preparation Is Half The Battle: The Top 5 Questions to Prepare for in an Architecture Job Interview – ArchDaily Famed Collaboration: Zaha Hadid Teams Up With Pharrell And Adidas For A New Sneaker Design – Co. Design How To Get Healthy: Ways To Give Your Staff the Tools for Optimum Health at Work – Work Design Magazine Summer Fun: What to Expect at Next Month’s NYC Summer Streets – Untapped Cities A Look at Local History: A Piece Of The Original Penn Station Is Still Standing On 31st Street – Gothamist Add These To Your Summer Reading: 14 Literary Classics You Didn’t Know Could Help You Become a Better Entrepreneur – Entrepreneur Hefty Price In the Hamptons: Take a tour of the most expensive house for sale in America – Business Insider

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Weekend Update
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While we were all enjoying a good game and some spicy hot wings, here’s what you may have missed this weekend: Record Setting Social Media: Social Networks Report Record Numbers Around Super Bowl Conversations (Tech Crunch) Bluescape & Haworth: Tech wall centerpiece of collaborative space (Grand Rapids Business Journal) Local School Tackles A Global Issue: The New School Submits Bold Plan to Tackle Climate Change (The New School) Stand More to Live Longer: Take a stand against sitting in the workplace (Marin News) 3D Design: Lilian van Daal’s Biomimicry chair shows off “a new way to create soft seating” (Dezeen) The week in luxury: A map of NYC’s priciest apartment sales (The Real Deal NY) Work Smart: The Exact Music to Break Through Open Office Distractions (Fast Company)

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Weekly Roundup
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Here are some notable, entertaining and interesting stories we enjoyed this week. Happy reading! The Best of Last Year: The 10 Coolest Office Spaces Of 2014 (Fast Company) Business Tips: How to Be Totally Present and Productive (Entrepreneur) Winter Blues Begone: Three Ways to Make Winter at Work More Bearable (Bloomberg Businessweek) Top of the Heap: Foster + Partners named world’s most admired architect for ninth year in a row (Dezeen) “Fabulous” New Beginning: Fab CoFounder Bradford Shellhammer Is Launching Design Sales Site Bezar (Fast Company) Advice for Creating Seller-Doers: Take the “Selling” Out of Sales (ENR) Healthy & Happy: Creating Healthcare Environments That Improve Health (Healthcare Design) Why the Doorman Is Lonely: Nearly one-quarter of NYC apartments are non-primary homes (NY Times)

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