The modern tendency for office buildings is large, open rooms with expansive windows. This gives a fantastic sense of space and light, very different from older buildings in which you might have worked – which can feel more cramped and dingy. However, the airy open-plan office can come at the expense of comfort and the…
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Brise soleil: turn buildings into machines for living and working
Brutalist architecture is often decried these days as the epitome of ugliness and drabness that exhibits a general lack of feeling for its inhabitants. The fact remains, however, that the avant-garde architects at the forefront of this building style – Le Corbusier, for example – were actually most motivated by the idea of making life…