Rio 2016: with the Rio Olympics now in full swing, we’ve rounded up some of the best and worst logos that have been produced to promote the summer event, including the favourite logos selected by legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser and critic Alice Rawsthorn (+ slideshow). (more…)
Foster + Partners’ Apple 2 Campus is racing towards its December 2016 completion date. As seen in this drone video captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts, the exterior of the spaceship-like main building is nearly finished, with many of the campus’ other buildings, such as the auditorium, the research & development center and the 100,000 square foot corporate fitness center, also approaching full realization.
As the buildings reach the late stages, the construction crew has moved on to landscaping features, including a garden and pond in the center of the ring-shaped main building, and the green spaces that will cover the complex’s underground parking decks. Solar energy farms and PV panels lining additional parking structures have also been installed.
Employees are expected to move into the new building in early 2017. You can learn more about the project, here.
News via MacRumors.
A descendant of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán is outraged after discovering that his great-uncle’s cremated remains have been used to create a diamond ring. (more…)
It’s International Cat Day! To mark the occasion we’ve rounded up some of the best architecture and design for felines – including a series of cat houses by Los Angeles-based architects, a veterinary clinic dedicated to cats and a Seoul home where the owners’ pet has its own loft. Browse all our architecture and design for cats »
As night falls, a building appears to be lightly perched on a heavy base, floating and glowing in the trees.
In rural West Tisbury, MA, a graphic novelist needs a place to park and a place to work. The place to park is a black box with a continuous strip of polycarbonate to let in light and expose the framing “branches” that support the upper floor. What sits on top is a cedar shingled, light filled studio in the trees, with tall walls with large windows on the East that frame views of the surrounding foliage and low walls with small windows on the West to gain privacy from the adjacent main house.
The local building restrictions on “detached bedrooms” only allow partitions for a bathroom. Thus, the bathroom “core”, placed in the center of the room, plays the role of dividing the open living layout into two distinct zones of living/working and sleeping, allowing occupants to circulate around both sides. While not on a wall with windows, light from a large operable skylight and high vaulted ceilings still give the bathroom a very open feel. A private narrow deck in the back, provides a place to pause and reflect with the nature that the studio sits in.
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After 17 years of working various jobs and leaving for various reasons (mostly voluntary departures), I have discovered that no matter how polite your resignation letter is or how non confrontational and positive you are when you present it, it seems to be very difficult to leave a job without your employer having some hard feelings. In an effort to reverse this trend, when departing my most recent job I decided to go against conventional wisdom and give a 30 day notice instead of the customary two weeks.
Ok, who am I kidding? I gave one month’s notice because I had a corporate level position and the company policy stated that in order for me to get paid out for my vacation I had to give a one month’s notice. But anyway, the fact remains that I did it.
What I found was that, while I expected a one month’s notice to be two weeks of extra awkwardness for all parties involved, I found that it helped to ease some of the sting of my departure and build goodwill with the former employer.
And so I undertook the task of figuring out why. What I came up with was that when you quit a job there are certain stages that your employer goes through.
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These stages are as follows:
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They can’t believe that you are quitting. They can’t believe that you would leave such an awesome company. They can’t believe that anyone else would hire you.
How dare you quit. How dare you leave such an awesome company right in the middle of budget season. How dare you leave your team. How dare you try to better yourself. You are a horrible person.
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So you’re not joking? So you’re really leaving? Oh. Are you sure you’re not going to change your mind? Is there something we can offer you to get you to stay?
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We need to get updates on all of your projects before you leave. And can you finish putting together those budgets? And can you find and train your replacement in the next week or so? Make sure you leave your contact info in case we need to ask you a question about a project after you are gone.
You see the thing is, when you only give two weeks notice, you only get to step 2 in this 4 step process. So when you leave they are still busy being angry and don’t fully accept the fact that you’re leaving until a week after you’re gone.
Then they notice the pile of work that you left behind that they have no clue what to do with because they didn’t speak to you during your last week because they were angry at you. Somehow, in the grand scheme of things, this makes you look bad despite being obviously your employer’s fault.
However, when you give a month’s notice, you make it all the way to step four. The result is that you leave behind a more up to speed and prepared employer who has had a chance to get some much needed closure. Now you at least have a chance that he or she will give you a decent reference in the future.
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