To feed my curiosity about the rise of closed-concept floor plans, I reached out to 11 interior designers and overwhelmingly, they all agreed: Homeowners are embracing closed-concept layouts.

Open, creative offices are all the rage but are workers more productive without walls? The New Yorker magazine takes a skeptical look.

There are quite a few critical decisions that will underpin the structure of an office layout such as the division of public and private areas and the relative arrangement of empty space. The Top ...

Closed office refers to a layout where employees are spread into different smallish rooms or cubicles. Over the last years, the concept of open office made huge strides internationally, ...