Office with a view

Neuski

Sweet!

It's a parking lot - but I will give the the "view" thing since you see tree. I see darkness :)

CPLady

Parking lot or not, windows are a bonus. I spent two years working in an interior room "office" with no windows and it sucked.

What a sad state of affairs the American landscape has become. I think this view would depress me more than having no window at all.

Jeff

Office buildings are sad? As opposed to what? Factories as far as the eye can see?

Neuski

I see a lot of green. You have a terrific view.

Those office buildings are sad (it's not what is inside a building that makes it sad, it's the architecture and how it relates to the landscape and larger community). And it is sad that this is now considered the norm and nobody will admit or recoginize the problems.

This is just a typical pathetic arrangement of ugly bland boxes set in vast seas of parking carved out of what was once a wooded landscape. There is no town, no context of community, and nothing worth caring about. It's the typical look-alike suburban landscape that has spread across the country like a cancer with cheap throw-away buildings, car-dependent, and an inefficient use of space. This type of development consumes land and resources the way a Metamucil addict consumes toilet paper. And look at that completely useless berm between the parking lots.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of these places in the post-cheap-energy economy.

Jeff

I tend to agree that they're not pretty, but they exist everywhere because it's where people work. Prior decades focused on manufacturing, and that's not the world we live in anymore. It's also where people live, because they don't live in the city anymore.

Believe me, I'd love to do nothing but telecommute, but much of the world still wants face time. I won't likely be in this location a ton, as I'll likely be at client locations 75% of the time.

I guess I'm just wondering out loud why people are so complacent that they let the world get as ugly as it has, and orient the built-landscape to completely exclude anything other than car transportation. I also believe that it is going to be necessary to learn how to reinhabit the cities once it is no longer possible commute on $10 a gallon gas.

But at least you have a window. You have sunshine and you can pretend you're overlooking the beach or something. That Saturn out there is really a bikini-clad hottie, right?

Jeff

I don't generally spend a lot of time thinking about the world's beauty when I'm heads-down working, whether that be in an office, at home or on a beach.

8dot3

I wish I had a window. I think the unnamed poster's point is that these office buildings belong in a city or town where mass transit can take you there.

It's also where people live, because they don't live in the city anymore.

That's the saddest part. People have a belief that cities are terrible places for people and that just isn't true. We just forgot how to build them correctly.

I'm optimistic that we will soon see a return to walkable communities with higher-but-controlled densities, neatly linked to other areas with convenient public transit and dedicated open space.

Google "new urbanism" if you're curious.

Skydiving Jeff

Wouldn't be a problem if you worked at Charmland.