Cool Offices

When designing new workspaces, architects and interior designers are faced with the challenge not only of creating versatile and dynamic environments, but also of turning the company's image and corporate identity into three-dimensional reality. Today's workspace design is also increasingly characterized by a greater ecological awareness, as seen in the optimization of materials and alternative energy systems of the work included herein. This volume is a select sampling of twenty ground-breaking design programs, each of which is a masterful reworking of the concepts of space, material and color. Presenting work by accomplished architects as well as up-and-coming names, this is an invaluable reference on the current state of office design.