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Should workplaces embrace biophilic gyms to boost employees' health and wellbeing?
by Kim Megson | 10 Feb 2017
Companies can inspire productivity, profit and improved health and wellbeing among their staff by introducing biophilic amenities such as green fitness centres into their workplaces. That is the view of Despina Katsikakis, a leading workplace design consultant, who claims that the cost of such changes is “negligible when compared the benefits it brings for the organisation, its staff and the economy.” She made the comments during a panel discussion recently
'World's first biophilic gym' to launch as London pop-up
by Kim Megson | 19 Dec 2016
Landscape architect Lily Jencks has designed “the world’s first biophilic gym” for fitness concept Biofit. Described as “an organic gym concept for big city life,” the pop-up health club will open in west London from 9 January to 3 February 2017. With a brief to “bring the outside world indoors”, Jencks has created an environment where gym-goers can work out amid natural vegetation, colours, materials, shapes, scents and sounds. Biofit
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Designed to restore neglected land and renew the identity of Iraq’s capital city, Baghdad Sustainable Forests promises a new way of living surrounded by nature. Gensler’s Ian Mulcahay tells us why he thinks the project could become a model for the repair and enhancement of urban centres
Designed to restore neglected land and renew the identity of Iraq’s capital city, Baghdad Sustainable Forests promises a new way of living surrounded by nature. Gensler’s Ian Mulcahay tells us why he thinks the project could become a model for the repair and enhancement of urban centres
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