Jason Fried: Why You Can’t Work at Work.

[via swissmiss]

Balcony added.

A project by the French artist Julien Berthier [via today and tomorrow].

Elevator-Office.

bat'a's company’s headquarters - photo from the exhibition: "Zlín - Modellstadt der Moderne" at the Pinakothek der Moderne (München)

The Bat'a Shoes company, founded in 1894 by the entrepreneur Tomás Bat’a and his stepbrother Jan Antonín, was sitatued in Zlín, in the east of the Czech Republic. The brothers Bat’a combined clever entrepreneurship, mass production of shoes and social experiment. The town Zlín got a laboratory for communal life and work: a Fordian city.

elevator office - photo from the exhibition: "Zlín - Modellstadt der Moderne" at the Pinakothek der Moderne (München)

At the company’s headquarters (erected by Vladimír Karfík, a former Le Corbusier assistant) Mr. Bat'a worked in an room-sized elevator office, from which he was able to move between stories to observe his workers. The first “lift-office”. In 1931 the Bat'a plants were turning out 150,000 pairs of shoes daily (latest available figures, source: time)
photo from the exhibition: "Zlín - Modellstadt der Moderne"

Bata is still one of the largest shoe manufacture in the world.

model of the elevator office - photo from the exhibition: "Zlín - Modellstadt der Moderne" at the Pinakothek der Moderne (München)

Zlín - The Model Town of Modernism
19.11.2009 -21.02.2010 PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE ARCHITEKTUR

Color Voting.

image (c) Roland Krauss / PPAG

The MuseumsQuartier Wien is one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world. Each year as a contrast to the boring architecture by Laurids Ortner and Manfred Ortner, the courtyard gets furnished by "enzis" - the foam sofas by ppag architects. Likewise, each year people can pick the new color of the outdoor furniture. In 2010 you can choose between "Lush Meadow Green", "Candy Shop Pink", "Strawberry Fields Red" or "Down Town Grey"!

Help choosing the new color! (just pick an image)
It got pink! (2010.3.07)

Dorothee Golz - Digital imagery.

Image by Dorothee Golz, "the girl with a pearl earring", (Jan Vermeer)

In 2005 Dorothee Golz starts a series of photographs that play with the imagery of renaissance paintings. She transfers picturesque masterpieces in modern architectural settings and contemporary body language.

See her images at Charim Galerie Wien
Dorotheergasse 12/1
1010 Wien
www.charimgalerie.at