November 24, 2021
The great office door handle problem
Architects and designers have always a had a thing for door handles. It’s the kind of detail they like and one of the most genuinely tactile features of a building. Architects from Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid have worked on the designs of door handles for manufacturers. It was the Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa who described the door handle as ‘the handshake of the building’ in his architectural theory book?The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses in 2005. This was cute before last March but now looks slightly menacing. More →
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November 10, 2021
Working culture should align and balance with commercial objectives
by Siobhan Byrnes • Comment, Flexible working, Property, Wellbeing