10/07/2022
When I started my career, the economy was booming and every *dot-com* out there had tons of money to spend on architecture. My first employer, the newly established , had so much work these h z to give significant projects, in their entirety, to inexperienced architects like me who were fresh out of school. So on my first day of work I was told to meet the boss at 44 Wall St. for a kickoff meeting with a company called Javelin Technologies, and to then design and build a space for them.
For my first office space, I wanted a seemingly random pattern of desks, to avoid the monotony of lining up 40-50 of them in a grid. I then designed low staggered walls with light-boxes that would be oriented in only one direction but would help organize the space, and bring electrical and data to each desk. We then cut a curved opening in the slab between the two floors in an arc shape to project the image of a flying javelin and hung pendant lights through them.
Do you think the design has stood the test of time?
(It was completed in 2000.)
