Research Topic: New York Times Office Culture

I have been researching the new New York Times building by Renzo Piano to learn about their office culture. Their theories of open work spaces, collaboration, and innovation are expressed in the building itself in very advanced ways. I am trying to look past the building itself at this point to focus on the workspaces themselves.

Something that I have found very interesting and that I think really relates to my thesis and the convergence of architecture and ever-changing technologies is the elevator lobby walls.

Each of those little screens is a constantly changing image of current news reports, images, blogs, comments, data, etc. from the Times' website as it is published, as well as images and news from the Times' 156-year archive. Called Moveable Type, each screen also has audio and is a great example of the New York Times ideas on the rapidly changing media environment. Much as radio station headquarters play their stations 24 hours a day, the New York Times commitment to news and New York City is displayed on these walls.

Case Study Analysis 2A

Alison and Peter Smithson, architects of the Economist Building and Hunstanton School, were very involved in their own theories of how design would advance. One of their most famous designs was the House of the Future.


My favorite part is the nylon clothes, because we are all like Superman in the Space Age!

Case Study Analysis 3

Case Study Analysis 2

Case Study Analysis #2

I don't know what is up with Blogger making my board look like this. I will keep trying to get it fixed, but in the meantime I dropped the board on the ftp site.