Thoughts Become Things
How to Train your Carbon Footprint to Fetch Coffee
Let’s face it: buildings are big, bold, and a bit bossy when it comes to energy use. It’s even more of an exaggeration when you think of places like New York City because in the land of skyscrapers, every open space in the grid is constantly being filled up just to contain the population. A higher density of people means a higher rate of carbon emissions. It’s that simple. Between the vehicular traffic, demands for electricity, and daily construction happening on every other block, it’s a no-brainer that urban use of fossil fuels is to blame.
The Architect’s New Assistant, A.I.
Our society has modernized itself greatly over the last few decades, broadened by an overwhelming growth of technology and an undying spirit motivated by success. Though even while propelled into the future, there is still a pesky stigma going around that sets many of us back. It’s more of a generalized fear than anything, a repressive idea that is actively separating people from excelling, closing their minds to alternate ways of engagement and production. This stigma is that artificial intelligence will eventually surpass us all, replace us even, especially within our professions and lifestyles. However, that jaw-dropping theory is a mere misconception.
The A.I. Revolution in Architecture Isn’t What You Think.
Our society has modernized itself greatly over the last few decades, broadened by an overwhelming growth of technology and an undying spirit motivated by success. Though even while propelled into the future, there is still a pesky stigma going around that sets many of us back. It’s more of a generalized fear than anything, a repressive idea that is actively separating people from excelling, closing their minds to alternate ways of engagement and production. This stigma is that artificial intelligence will eventually surpass us all, replace us even, especially within our professions and lifestyles. However, that jaw-dropping theory is a mere misconception.
Your Fintech Office Is Just a Fancy Internet Café. That’s a Problem.
Strip away the kombucha tap, the exposed concrete, and the oat milk fridge, and what remains in many fintech offices is a dressed-up internet café. There is reliable Wi-Fi, decent coffee, and a constant hum of Zoom calls. It gets the job done, but it does not say much about who you are or where you’re going. In a sector built on momentum, that silence speaks volumes.
This One Paint Color Can Manipulate Tenants into Staying Forever
Let’s be real. No color, no matter how trendy, tranquil, or timeless can single handedly convince a company to stick around. If tenant retention were as simple as slapping on a coat of Commitment Gray, commercial landlords would be swimming in lease extensions. “Problem solved,” right?
The Art of Office Seating
The way a space is designed informs the distances we keep hold—who we naturally gravitate toward, how easily we can switch between heads-down work and spontaneous brainstorming, and even how hierarchy plays out in the room.
Your Office Aesthetic is Giving ‘Corporate Beige’ and Clients Can Smell It
Design that tries to be safe can actually work against you. Explore how to build spaces that feel like your brand instead of a catalog background.
Your headquarters might be killing the planet, time to turn over a new leaf.
Sustainability is no longer just a trend—it’s a fundamental necessity. As industries across the globe set net-zero goals, the pressure is on to create office environments that not only reduce environmental impact but also boosts employee well-being. Enter biophilic design
Preparing a Return to Work: Covid-19 Considerations
As states begin to reopen, so too will businesses prepare for a returning workforce. With new health and safety guidelines, many offices will have to change how they operate, how they organized, and how they are used. In order to make sure our friends and clients are able to open and operate their businesses safely we want to share some important areas to address. These questions should help businesses gauge their readiness and prepare a master plan.
6 Feet + the New Office
As business prepare to reopen, they will have to take new health and safety guidelines and requirements into account. As these rules will grow and update as we learn more about COVID-19, we hope to provide solutions that will greatly help the office in the short term, in reopening, as well as the long term for continually operating a healthy workplace environment.
Covid-19 Design Solutions + Recommendations
As COVID-19 has brought about drastic changes to our daily lives, our goal as an Architecture firm is to provide as much health and safety information as possible and to work further on developing solutions to share, given the circumstance.