I was dropping my friend Sarah’s daughter off at school last month when I accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in the basement hallway of Roosevelt Elementary. Honestly?…
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…
Three months ago, I found myself standing in a 1920s bank lobby in Portland, watching restoration specialists carefully remove dropped ceiling tiles to reveal original coffered plasterwork that hadn’t seen…
I’ve been tracking my home office productivity metrics for years now, and one pattern kept nagging at me: my best work days consistently happened when I spent time on my…
So I went down a bit of a research rabbit hole last quarter that started with me trying to optimize my own workspace and ended with me buried in academic…
Last week, I found myself reading about something called regenerative air preheaters after running into a problem with the greenhouse I built for my wife three years ago. The heating…
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…
So I’ve been following this regenerative design stuff on Instagram for a while now – you know how the algorithm works, you start with houseplant content and somehow end up…
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…