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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by ehnto on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:13AM (#17917199)
Trees and greenery in general take a space from "concrete wasteland" to "human living space" for me. I have no idea why we build plazas as big concrete slabs. Who thought that was what people wanted?

Who has every thought to themselves, gee, I sure wish there was more flat concrete to look at.

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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by jrockway on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:58AM (#17917447)
> Who thought that was what people wanted?

You don't have to pay someone to mow the concrete slab, I guess. (And in the winter, don't shovel the snow, just make a sign that says: "warning, slippery!")

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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by monocasa on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:42AM (#17918957)
It's supposedly so that events are easier to setup as "it's a more free form space". IMO it doesn't really make it all that much easier, and looks like shit when an event isn't going on.
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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by PascLeRasc on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @01:10PM (#17919943)
Skateboarders do, but then we can't even use the space because of hostile design.
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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by betterworldb on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:54AM (#17917957)
It's modernist design. And it sucks.
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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by gjhicks on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:08AM (#17918654)
Maybe bad modernist design or the out-of-favor brutalist design. Modernist design does not favor large slabs of flat concrete. Really, no form of design does. So, it's really just bad design.
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Re:The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light by monocasa on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:40AM (#17918940)
Even brutalism wasn't for big empty slabs for a plaza.

I've heard that cities are going that way to make pop up events easier. I don't think it really makes it that much easier though, and it looks like shit when an event isn't going on.

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