New and flexible ways of working do not mean that one is relegated to working in a ‘non-place’. As working practices become less reliant on the personal office and become increasingly based around networks and shared spaces, the pleasure derived from rich and characterful spaces becomes amplified.

Construction is the most powerful way to make connections between structures of different ages and to impart a real presence to a place. By engaging with and reinforcing the best aspects of an existing situation, or even making surprising new interventions, construction can have spatial effect and impart a heightened capacity for inhabitation.

 

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