Do you work in a beautiful building?

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Like a castle or a stately home, or a nice university? Do you feel working in nice surroundings makes your daily grind any better?

I work in a listed building which supposedly resembles an airship from above. It is a beautiful place and it makes working a little bit more bearable. Previously I've worked in scabby city centre offices so here makes a nice change (and makes me feel an ickle bit important)

If I win the lottery though I'm going to buy it, turf the company out and turn it into a nightclub.

― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 14 January 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

God, no. My office is in a grim building at the back of the shopping mall that ate the heart of Epsom. I interviewed for a job that was in one of Nash's columnades and I really wanted to work there until I found out that the actual office I'd be in was in one of the scabby back buildings on Baker Street.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Although allegedly it's a "nice university".

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really, but it's a pleasant red color.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had a view of the Charles Bridge and the castle, etc. in Prague. Yes, it did make it better. Last year I worked in a place with lovely gardens, which also made it better.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My office building is your usual crappy 60s/70s 5 storey block.

I have a fantastic view of Morrisons and B&Q though, so that makes it all worth it.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My office building itself is quite nice - it was built in 1902, and it's next door to the Old State House in downtown Boston. I work in a pretty standard tracklit cube farm, but the views out some of the picture windows are amazing.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

My building is an old TB hospital, hundreds of people have died here in the past.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Big ugly 70's warehouse, converted into a cube farm.. But the grounds are very nice - a lot of green, plus a waterfall & a ravine.. And I actually do take advantage of walking around the grounds at lunchtime. Also, I can walk to the library in about 5 minutes..

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

A falling-apart 100 year old office building in crowded Soho. It does the job, but it's not special in any respect that I can think of. Even the asbestos has now gone.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

To me, that sounds quite romantic, Markelby.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to work in the musty basement of a stately home in Georgetown (DC). It was not better than a clean well-lit office. There were six people and nine dogs.

Now I have a spacious office (with a door!) in a boring building, but a great view into Virginian woods.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have "worked," however briefly, here...

http://www.usareise.com/newyork/Alle_Bilder/Bild19/lipstick.jpg

here...

http://www.senate.gov/visiting/resources/graphic/medium/Russell.jpg
http://www.cureparkinsons.org/images/rotunda.jpg

here...

ihttp://home.gwi.net/~dnb/gallery/times/times_building.jpg

and here...

ihttp://travel.u.nu/dc/oeob.jpg

As of Tuesday, I work here...

http://members.aol.com/smurphynyc/down/1wfc.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - impressive buildings.

My uncle is a Canon (boom boom) and I visited the cathedral in which he works, if 'works' is an accurate description of whatever the hell a canon does. It was jaw-droppingly awesome, I wandered around slack jawed and amazed. Strange that it was just like 'the office' to him.

― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 14 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbneb, what's that OEOB.JPG building?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 January 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the 17th St. face of the French Empire-style "Old Executive Office Building (OEOB)." It is adjacent to "the West Wing."

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

gross.

http://www.struttandparker.co.uk/images/businesssectors/dynamic/subsector8%5Cg_maple.jpg

upstairs from here
http://www.channels.nl/london/streets/warren_street/mvc-002f.jpg

it's in a nice central location and the view out the window of our new hospital is ok.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - or is it the Penn Ave face?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbneb and i work in the same complex, the WFC. woah!

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Gabbneb, I believe that picture is of the Pennsylvania Avenue side; the 17th Street side is much closer to the sidewalk.

A fine, fine building. One of my faves in Washington.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The answer would be "no"

http://home.gwu.edu/~tombot/LAFB.jpg
http://home.gwu.edu/~tombot/DLIFLC.jpg
http://home.gwu.edu/~tombot/NSAHQ2.jpg
http://home.gwu.edu/~tombot/FBIHQ.jpg

Wheee!!!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 January 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in a boring flat-roofed brick office-block built onto the front of a corrugated-whatever warehouse, in the middle of an industrial estate, between a scrapyard, a chemical plant, and a fish-freezing factory.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Tombot, since you posted that photo of NSA headquarters, you will be killed. The helicopters are on the way to your location now.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My building has been described as dismal, hideous and Orwellian by some of Scotland's top architects. So no, I don't.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

eh.

ittp://www.ardenrealty.com/images/bldg/1070_6100_wilshire_b.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, I mean http://www.ardenrealty.com/images/bldg/1070_6100_wilshire_b.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Where do you work Onimo?

― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 14 January 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

http://www.budowle.pl/najwyzsze/grafika/bank_of_america_building_sf_2.jpg

Affectionately known as the 'Turd'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

woah luna, i work a few blocks away from you
ihttp://www.mccarthycook.com/images/BuildingPics/Wilshire/WClarge_ViewFromTarPit.jpg

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to work at the John Deere Headquarters building...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lemoore.navy.mil/weather/images/mcdonalds.JPG

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to work in this building:

http://www.elevator-world.com/gif/9908-2.JPG

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

People say it's beautiful, but I don't think it is.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yogi Bear just had a heart attack.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Giant Ants!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to work in the emerald city for a shitty dot.com
http://you-are-here.com/building/1929_wiltern.jpg
and this thing which was cool but leaky, cold, and impractical for actual usage. i wrote an architecture magazine saying as much, they printed it and eric moss got all weird and insecure on me.
ihttp://www.ericowenmoss.com/umbrella-front.jpg

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck nothing works
ihttp://www.ericowenmoss.com/umbrella-front.jpg

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I work in a two-story brown brick building where only every other office has a window.

So, no, in answer to the thread's question, I do not.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Buildings I have temped in: a pictoral history.

http://giganticmag.com/images/148876.jpg http://giganticmag.com/images/117842.jpg http://giganticmag.com/images/148667.jpg http://giganticmag.com/images/309339.jpg http://giganticmag.com/images/144596.jpg http://giganticmag.com/images/214184.jpg

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I work in a huge 1960's box that contains a giant theatre, a library, offices. But next door is a lovely building, the student union, connected to me by a tunnel.
ihttp://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/1998/62/jpeg/00.jpg

ihttp://web.ics.purdue.edu/~youx/Pictures/LearningCommunity/Christmas.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sla.purdue.edu/buildings/stew/stew.jpg
Where I actually work.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, how do you get pictures to appear adjacent to one another?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Just put a single space between each instance of "ihttp://".

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to have lunch on that terrace of lolitacorpus' building!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I once worked on this building

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ecotone/images/Full%20Size%20Images/Civilization/Ute.JPG

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh.

I work in a hospital that was built and completed in the early 1970s. There are no suitable pictures of it on the Internet, but suffice it to say, it looks predictably like a brown bricked pile of 1970s modernity. The inside is fluorescent white with little touches of 1970s-era pastel colors here and there to break up the white monotony. Every place that's not a room, from the hallways to the offices, is brightly lit. The floor of the hallways consists of shiny linoleum you have to be careful about stepping on if any water gets in contact with it, while the offices have floors carpeted with a brownish-gray berber carpeting, with reddish trim along the sides of the walls.

Oh! And for some unknown reason, it was deemed awhile back, maybe around fifteen years ago or so, that every office had to have a big fake leafy green tree in the corner closest to the entrance. So almost all of us can see this tree from our cubicles. For Christmas, someone always strings lights on it and it serves as our Christmas tree.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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