What does your office/work look like?

[fatphilb]

I think mine probably takes the biscuit for sheer ugliness.

Thankfully being pulled down in two years. You can see it from almost everywhere in Dundee.

What do you call home Monday to Friday 9 to 5?

 

[mambobirdette]

Mine kinda looks like yours, although its not that bad on the inside.

 

[Barbie]

Where I'm freelancing at the mo is really cool - it's a massive 19th century old tea warehouse in Shoreditch which has been split into lots of offices but it keeps all the original features. Also it's got a bar attached to it where they have things like Damian Lazarus doing free Monday night parties which isn't good for my long-term health, welfare and sanity

 

[jjinit]

Just googled my office address and this came up, I aint seen this anywhere near Angel/Clerkenwell But it'll do!!

 

[Buckley]

My office is a three story house with 'Buckley House' writ large above the front door.

 

[x-amount]

Discounting size and uber-grandiose structures, I work in the best office space IMO in the country

 

[jjinit]

Im sure Ken Livingtsone and anyone who works for Citigroup, HSBC, and inside no1 Canada Square would disagree, espcially when talking "vistas"

 

[Beckiboo]

X-amount is that the Lloyds building? My friend cleans your windows

My office is kinda small, I dont work for a big company, we've got the top two floors of a building near Tott Crt Rd!

My desk is really cool though, I look out onto Tott Crt Rd and see eveything going on

 

[x-amount]

Im sure Ken Livingtsone and anyone who works for Citigroup, HSBC, and inside no1 Canada Square would disagree, espcially when talking "vistas"

Can you read? Particular paying attention to

"Discounting size and gransiose structures".?!

And those 2 skyscrapers are nothing short or appauling design and bland bland bland archtecture. They have nothing going for them other than their size. Now, if you had said the guerkin, you would have had a point. Even Tower 42 (nay the Nat West tower) gets the nod on the Docklands monstrosities if only becasue if you look down on it from above, it is the Nat West logo.

Ken's building... well, it's a horrible slug of a *shudders* modern public/municipal building which nearly automatically discounts it from any kind of award. See also the Barbican. Not to mention the fact KL works there!

 

[Robder]

Discounting size and uber-grandiose structures, I work in the best office space IMO in the country

Wow - yes agreed on that one! I love the Lloyds building...walk past it every day!

I'd hate to work in the city though - far to corporate for me. Everyone is boring and looks like a penguin!

I work on Gray's Inn Rd at the mo - still a very boring area but near Farringdon (lovely place) and Leather Lane market - one of the oldest markets in London. It's fantastic for food and sunnies! 8)

I can't wait to leave though...my new office is very funky. It's a big warehousey space in Marylebone with ultra modern features which time warps half way through as it becomes the most amazing art deco furniture shop you've ever seen in your life!
There's a beautiful red chandelier in there I've got my eye on but it's £6000.

I've got a posh glass desk too!...and an itunes obsessed office with really varied, alternative tastes...so no more James Blunt - yay! 8)

...Oh and I'll be campaigning for an office cow kettle.

 

[jjinit]

Can you read? Particular paying attention to

"Discounting size and gransiose structures".?!

can you??

I said regarding "vistas" ie views. In terms of the aesthetical attributes I would say the Gherkin. Lloyds Building looks like a stretchedversion of the Pompideu Centre....Pompideu Centre.........Pompideu Centre............Pompideu Centre

 

[x-amount]

X-amount is that the Lloyds building? My friend cleans your windows

Yup.

I could bore you all for hours on the intricacies of it's design, for example...

*It's entirely modular. It can be built on and expanded like (slightly complicated) Lego. It was originally thoguh the Insurance market would naturally expand, tho it hasn't due to asbestos claims and 9/11.

* When the Baltic Exchange Bomb went off not 50 yards away from it, the only damage to the building was a piece of shrapnel denting a air con pipeline.

* It's design/look was inspired by that of an oil rig (due to Marine being one of the largest classes of business traded in the building)

* It's the largest single open airconditioned space in the world

I'll stop now...

 

[puppylover]

Discounting size and uber-grandiose structures, I work in the best office space IMO in the country

Agree too - lovely building in fact in July I sat in a little cafe in Leadenhall Market having a bacon sandwich and a cuppa admiring this building.... a beautiful piece of modern architecture....

I work in a listed building its a beautiful Jacobean building and used to be a hospital for sick children - cant find a piccy of it on google tho...

 

[Scoobie]

Like I'm going to tell you bunch of internet stalker wierdos where I work

 

[silvia]

x.-amount do you know when was your building constructed and the architec??


I work here

Two weeks ago an it guy killed himself jumping from the higher tower

 

[x-amount]

can you??

I said regarding "vistas" ie views. In terms of the aesthetical attributes I would say the Gherkin. Lloyds Building looks like a stretchedversion of the Pompideu Centre....Pompideu Centre.........Pompideu Centre............Pompideu Centre

Pipe down, you clearly know nothing about good building design (haha) and your silly attempt to sound angry and rude towrds me is nothing short of embarassing and I'd like you to stop.

mwa.

I'd hate to work in the city though - far to corporate for me. Everyone is boring and looks like a penguin

I love it. I'd hate to wear trainers to work, if that makes sense.

It helps creat the Jekyll and Hyde character and makes me appreciate my weekends more!

 

[Robder]

It helps creat the Jekyll and Hyde character and makes me appreciate my weekends more!

Actually there is some sense in that!

...but you still can't beat working in an environment full of creative types who are really focused but also really trashy.

 

[Robbie G]

It helps creat the Jekyll and Hyde character and makes me appreciate my weekends more!

Trust me it is a total shock seeing the X man at work to seeing him at play

 

[jjinit]

oh fook off you lanky pikey c**t!!!

are you pretending to watch any footy this weekend??

 

[puppylover]

I love it. I'd hate to wear trainers to work, if that makes sense.

It helps creat the Jekyll and Hyde character and makes me appreciate my weekends more!

Ditto on the work dress malarky - suit for me every day or at least trousers and shirt or skirt and smart top - makes planning for work very easy in the morning... the less I have to think about/ do in the morning in my opinion is just brilliant..... AND it means you get to "dress up" for going out...