I wonder how much of the success of Disney is being a competent commercial real estate operator that realized that safe, clean, and sterile costs the same as safe, clean, and beautiful and said “We choose beauty.”
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It’s such a contrast after spending so much of my life in spaces which competent professionals spent years of their lives intentionally making look like nowhere in particular.
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(I also think this is a virtually free arbitrage in office design.)
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Replying to @patio11
having built out multiple spaces: beautiful costs much much more
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Beautiful *is* expensive, but I’m always amazed at how much money people manage to spend making coworking spaces look completely generic. It’s crazy.
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I feel like you’ve got a choice in a hallway between multiple cans of paint which all cost approximately the same and that it’s just a tear of organizational culture. Soulless Beige is the gentleman’s C.
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There’s at least 10 decisions in that hallway besides paint that make discernible differences, but the industry has mediocre defaults on most of them. Ask me how I know.
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Request for blog post. ;)
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Not on that specific point but the metapoint is made herehttps://dangerouslyawesome.com/2019/09/polished-concrete-floor …
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