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• s  (of rooms or buildings) having large rooms with few dividing partitions

• After almost a year of failed pitches, Paananen managed to convince Finnish operator Radiolinja that ring tones could help workers in open-plan offices distinguish their own .
• To provide sunlight that reduces reliance on electrical lighting, environmentally conscious designers tend to favor open-plan workplaces over offices with doors that close.
• For the new study, Lidia Morawska, a physicist at the Queensland Institute of Technology, and her colleagues analyzed printer emissions in a large open-plan office environment.

News & Articles

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• Grand opening held for C&E Lofts
  Exeter Realty took the 96-year-old, 137,000-square-foot Chittenden & Eastman Building and turned the former furniture business into 104 open-plan loft-style design apartments.
  June 21, 2013 - Finance and Commerce

Quotes

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• Zara Phillips in Times Online
  What I want is lots of open-plan space, and great entertainment and dining areas,Phillips says. "And Mike loves a barbie, so there'll definitely be one of those. I'm not planning on riding much, although I probably won't be able to keep...
• Paul Berry in Irish Times
  It is open-plan, and bringing the garden into the living room was important. That's why these doors took time to find,says Berry. "The digging-out [to increase height] was something. I insisted on that height. The original height was awful...
• Camilla Rutherford in Telegraph.co.uk
  I really wanted to live in a house that worked for a family,says Camilla, 32, who is a model (she's been on Tatler's front cover) and actress (in Gosford Park and Stardom). "But huge, open-plan spaces make it difficult to concentrate -...