One of my peripheral pastimes this year has been waffling between missing the office, where I used to spend a majority of my time, and actively hoping I’ll never have to go back. But if and when we do return to those glassy corporate towers, I wonder if or how things will be different. The design collective Office of Things — co-founded in 2015 by a group of architects spread out across the U.S. — has been grappling with the existential questions of office life since even before the pandemic began. The firm wanted to “create a space that sets you away in a different world, and to use that experience to create calm and refuge,” says Lane Rick, the project lead, who runs the New York chapter of Office of Things with Can Vu Bui. Gift ThisA French Artist’s Papier-Mâché Mushrooms

Source: New York Times December 17, 2020 13:52 UTC