I said it before and I'll say it again, this one turned out way better than I anticipated. Foster & Partners never disappoints! I just realized this building has a strong similarity to one of Foster's earlier works, the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt. Both beautiful buildings in their own right!
Comcast Corp.’s new tower will open later this year, a $1.5 billion steel-and-glass wonder with no private offices, no desk phones, and 300 meeting rooms linked by a scheduling app.
But the tower’s first incarnation has been in a more prosaic place: a former suburban office complex 30 minutes from Center City, in Horsham, that Comcast and its consultants redid to replicate a floor in the new building.
Called the “mock-up,” the high-ceilinged suburban office has panoramic photos of Philadelphia glued onto the walls, a mind-bending detail so Comcast employees think they are really in the tower’s 36th floor when they visit.
The goal is to find the layout that fuels the most creativity and collaboration. Comcast has cycled more than 1,000 employees from eight divisions through the site, surveying their reactions and observing how they interact in the so-called open floors where everyone sits together without private offices.
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I honestly thought that the spine would be done by now! 
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