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Why Office-to-Residential Conversions Are So Tough & What It Reveals About Our Legacy Office Environments
Brendan Gregory Brendan Gregory

Why Office-to-Residential Conversions Are So Tough & What It Reveals About Our Legacy Office Environments

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘅𝗲𝘀? Past mistakes designing offices for the "machine of work" rather than for people helps to explain what makes office-to-residential conversions so difficult.

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