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Bob Fox, publisher of the industry magazine Workspace Design,
calls the Google philosophy to “give its employees a city.”
Fox, an architect who runs the Washington, D.C., firm Fox
Architects, remembers the vastly different jobs of the early nineties. “We would basically design 10x15 boxes as offices and 6x8
workspaces for individuals,” he told The Huffington Post. “Now
the cafe-type third space has become commonplace.”
He links this rise to those of wireless networking and the digital cloud, breakthroughs that threaten the existence of traditional office buildings. Architects with MKDA, a New York-based
corporate architecture firm, pitch a version of a third space in
every consultation they have. “It doesn’t always get approved,
but we’re finding that even traditional firms ask us to do more
than we expected,” MKDA president Michael Kleinberg told The
Huffington Post, adding that his clients tend to excuse the cost
as a basic investment in productiv