When much of what is to be built is already built, and much of it is inefficient, surely we should focus more on that existing fabric, rather than constructing new edifices?
If you were to sit down today and create a company completely from scratch, would you copy the processes, practices and structures of today’s organisations, or would you try to do something different?
Imagine a modern café providing a physical place that retrieves the historical values of the European coffee houses, spaces where work and leisure activities were almost perfectly blended together.
It would work as a membership club built on casualty and networking opportunities, where creative professionals from various industries can meet and interact in a non-virtual environment, and be able to design and innovate and build up a social and professional network at the same time.
The new pieces reflect changes in the way work gets done: It’s less about the desk, and more about the coffee-break gabfest. (via The New Work Space: Will Lounge-Like Office Furniture Inspire Big Ideas?)
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Vitra’s New Office Furniture Blurs Line Between Work and Play
Citizen Office taps Naoto Fukasawa, the Bouroullecs, and others, to create a contract furniture collection perfectly suited to the relaxed work environment of the day. (via Citizen Office: Vitra.com)