Rethinking office space
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Rethinking office space
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#2I think I should point out that this is traditionally a sign of a peak of a company, sometimes called the Edifice Complex.
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#3I think I should point out that this is traditionally a sign of a peak of a company, sometimes called the Edifice Complex.
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!¹
¹not speaking for my king^H^H^H^Hemployer
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#4I'd work in a filthy basement in the middle of Kansas for a company/project that’s worth it.
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#5I'd work in a filthy basement in the middle of Kansas for a company/project that’s worth it.
I work for Google in Mountain View, and I'd prefer to work in a filthy basement in Kansas. The commute would be better, and the cost of living lower...
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#6well, that's certainly some tremendous architecture. however... conspicuously missing from the office space album is pictures of actual offices. maybe i just didn't see them.
but as far as revolutionary concepts go, how about just giving your employees an office with a window and a door that shuts?
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#7Looks like want to cover big parts of mountain view with a see-thru tent, and turn north-of-101 into a new downtown. Life under the dome. I absolutely hate it.
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#8These really curved, artsy spaces remind me of Xanadu House and similar poorly received architectural experiments of the 70s. It often seems to me that designs of this type tip too far away from function and too much into form. (Plus what's the long-term maintenance requirements?)
But if anyone could pull it off, it's probably Google!
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#9I think I should point out that this is traditionally a sign of a peak of a company, sometimes called the Edifice Complex.
This is the first time Google is developing an office complex from scratch and it's somehow "Edifice Complex"?
Mind you this is a $400 billion company.
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#10well, that's certainly some tremendous architecture. however... conspicuously missing from the office space album is pictures of actual offices. maybe i just didn't see them. but as far as revolutionary concepts go, how about just giving your employees an office with a window and a door that shuts?
It's crazy, theres 10 minutes of inspiring (read: empty) talk and all of the renderings show completely empty buildings with just a bunch of floors that you can walk down one side and fall to your certain death.
Also, America, no wonder your commute is long, theres a 10 lane highway surrounded by a bunch of single-family homes. If you want to put more people into the same space, what you usually do is go up in height.