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Open-plan office designs (e.g., tables with no visual barriers) reduce short-term building costs, compared to cubicles or private offices, but result in persistently lower productivity, dramatically fewer face-to-face interactions among staff, and a higher number of sick days. [1]
Research is sometimes required to plan office layouts strategically, often done by identifying the factors that potentially affect space occupants — collecting and analyzing data in regards to how space is used, current building standards in furniture or ergonomic furniture, future demand of space or growth between business units. [9]
The general European mentality towards innovative forms of office design in the 1940 and 1950s was that of caution and hesitation following the devastating effects left from WWI and WWII. Before the 1950s, the majority of offices in Europe operated with closed-door offices and scaled-down versions of the massive bullpen offices that were found ...
The plan is to turn the 117,000-square-foot office building, which served as the headquarters for Traction Co., the company that built Cincinnati's 19th-century streetcar system, into a boutique ...
In architecture, open building is an approach to the design of buildings that takes account of the possible need to change or adapt the building during its lifetime, in line with social or technological change. Open building design seeks to co-ordinate inputs from different professions, users of the building, and other interests associated with ...
The company's bid was the most office-focused with plans featuring 10.6 million square feet (980,000 m 2) of commercial space and 3,000 residential units. [131] The proposed buildings would total over 12 million square feet (1,100,000 m 2) of space with 13 acres of open space and also include 379 units of affordable housing. [141]
The building was masterminded by Indian architecture firm Morphogenesis following an international design competition. Surpassing the Pentagon was not part of the competition brief, Gadhavi told CNN.
Wisconsin officials are seeking plans for a 55,000- to 65,000-square-foot office building at 2701 W. Wisconsin Ave. It also needs 200 parking spaces.