It's so silent inside the quietest room on Earth that you can hear your eyelids shut when you blink. Tucked away in Minneapolis' Seward neighborhood, Orfield Laboratories has made a name for itself in ...

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It’s known as the quietest place on Earth, and soon you’ll be able to check it out. Starting next week, Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis will begin new group tours of its quiet chamber. The company ...

Steven J. Orfield's firm, Orfield Laboratories (OL), has spent 50 years in architectural design, research, and testing, dedicated to the premise that what matters in design is the end user, because ...