Design
In the 'Workplace of the Future,' We Hang Like Monkeys from Vertical Gardens
This visionary office attaches to existing buildings to fill them with light, hope, and zucchini.
What's worse than chatty coworkers interrupting your flow? How about a dude harvesting zucchini from a vertical garden falling and crashing through your desk in a hollering heap?
OK, so that's looking on the dark side of Sean Cassidy and Joe Wilson's architectural dream, "Organic Grid+," the winner of Metropolis Magazine's recent competition to design the "Workplace of the Future." Installing green walls probably would soothe office workers with computer-monitor fatigue. And it might be a nifty in-house method of providing healthy lunch to the workforce (as long as said workforce doesn't mind the occasional caterpillar on the keyboard).