"The whole point," says Nick Kirkham, "is that work should be fun, creative fun; I've always hated conventional developers' office blocks, designed like filing cabinets, that make life a drudge.
A comparative study of the occupant comfort (neutral) in a conventional high-rise office block and a contemporary environmentally-concerned building for Sheffield UK climate conditions was carried out.
That it has a lot of curves, in defiance of the conventional logic of office blocks and modern building components, which tend towards rectangles, as indeed is painfully visible on the side elevations, when applique curved fins clash with the gridded patterns of the glazing underneath.
With the Larkin building, in Buffalo, Wright reinvented the American workplace, creating a towering brick block whose light-filled central court anticipated the conventional office atrium.
In a recent case, architects Kohn Pedersen Fox had to use a shadow study to prove that their odd design for an office block near the World Trade Centre site in New York wouldn't block out any more sunlight than a conventional shape.
Conventional office attire.
Technology shift sparks a rethinking of conventional office space.
What price a sporting administration office block?
Perhaps purchase an office block or two?
The office block is the press and broadcasting centre.
