“The workplace is like the city in microcosm – people are attracted together for social contact and the stimulation of wider opportunities,” writes Norman Foster in the editorial of the October issue of the magazine. Today, the field of workplace and industrial design has undergone rapid transformation, driven in part by the Covid-19 pandemic, but also by a vanguard of patrons. These patrons, alongside architects, designers, artists, scientists, and scholars from diverse disciplines, have led efforts to enhance the quality of these environments. This evolution is reflected in the work of the 2024 guest editor, whose designs span from the groundbreaking ground scraper for the Willis Faber & Dumas headquarters in Ipswich (1975), to the iconic Apple Ring Building at Cupertino (2018), and the forthcoming JPMorgan Chase 270 Park Avenue tower in New York (2025). With this issue, Foster offers a series of insights and different perspectives on the future of industry and workplaces, with the hope that “such fringe examples will no longer be outliers, but they will dominate the mainstream and become the new generation of workplaces.”

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Langue : Anglais

N° revue : 2024--