Over the past few years, I’ve been following some remarkable building projects around the world that integrate natural elements in ways I never imagined possible. After spending decades thinking about…
I walked into this corporate building yesterday for a dentist appointment, and honestly, I just stopped dead in the lobby. It felt like stepping into some kind of indoor jungle…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between fixing something that’s broken and actually making it better than it was before. It’s a distinction I never really considered…
Back when I started optimizing my own home office, I was pretty focused on my personal productivity metrics. But spending hours reading research about natural light and plants led me…
My manager called me last month asking if I’d noticed anything different about our team’s performance metrics. We’re all remote, but he’d been tracking project completion rates and noticed some…
I never expected to get so excited about office buildings and airports, but here we are. Last month, I finally made it to Seattle to see Amazon’s famous Spheres in…
I never thought I’d be the guy giving home design advice, but here we are. After years of trial and error – and I mean *lots* of errors – trying…
I’ve been obsessing over London’s approach to bringing nature into urban spaces ever since I stumbled across an article about their “nature deficit disorder” initiatives. As someone who’s spent the…
I never thought I’d spend my evening reading industrial engineering papers about air pollution control systems, but here we are. It all started when I was researching air quality impacts…
The morning sun was hitting the raised garden bed I built for my wife at just the right angle when I noticed something that made me stop and really pay…
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Last week, my eight-year-old granddaughter came with me to the medical complex where my wife has her physical therapy appointments. Standing in that lobby – all shiny surfaces and harsh…
I’m sitting in my home office this morning, looking at the small air quality monitor on my desk that’s showing steadily improving numbers since I installed those plants two years…
I never expected to get emotionally affected by architecture, but there I was last month in the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, watching office workers naturally drift toward the curved glass…
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