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It's the first question Google employees here must resolve when they want to go to the cafeteria or game room: Stairs, slide or fireman's pole?
The next dilemma for so-called Zooglers: homemade pastry or exotic fruit juice?
It's all part of three free meals a day, with regular snacks, that Google serves at its new European tech centre.
Then there's the phone call dilemma.
Should you use a former ski gondola that has been converted into a private phone booth?
Shut yourself inside a blue igloo or giant purple egg?
Put the call on a video monitor?
Or just take it outside and walk along a rushing alpine river?
If you want to tap into the maximum creativity of everyone you hire, Google figures it might just take a whimsical mishmash of colours, shapes, textures, nooks and crannies to do so.
"To be effective in a short innovation cycle, you cannot just be sitting at your desk," explained Matthias Graf, the company spokesman in Zurich.
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Architect Anthony Eckelberry has completed the redesign and expansion of the Wolfgang Puck Express restaurant in Orlando Florida.
A new dining room structure was added to the building and the existing space was remodeled for better customer flow and visual appeal.
The restaurant now has double the previous seating capacity.
The restaurant's contemporary design features the brand's deep chocolate brown and accent green colors, sumptuous leather booths and banquettes, light wood table tops, and two family-style tables, making Wolfgang Puck Express the perfect gathering place for friends and family, whether for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Other design features include black and white photos of Chef Puck and fresh ingredients that are commonplace in the kitchen.
Floor-to-ceiling glass doors offer a complete view of the bustling dining room from the new and expanded patio with brick columns and awnings.
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In the constantly evolving building industry, there is more pressure than ever for builders to adhere to green-building standards and to qualify for The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System project points.
To easily make at least one aspect of a builder's project eco-friendly, Quick Crete Products Corp., a national leader in the precast concrete industry, has created Ecocast, made from 70 percent post consumer and industrial waste.
The result of extensive research and development, Ecocast is a mix of Recycled Aggregates and other green construction materials such as pozzolans, meeting the strict standards required to help builders achieve LEED project points.
"We are absolutely committed to creating sustainable-building solutions for our customers, as well as for the environment," said Rick Crook, CEO of Quick Crete Products Corp.
Ecocast can be used in a vast array of projects from luxury hotel facades to perimeter security protection.
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Powell Dobson, one of Wales' leading architectural and urban design practices has opened a new office in London in response to a growing demand for its services in the South East of England.
The 1,500 sq ft approx office, on Forest Road in Kew, will enable Powell Dobson to service its established London client base and play a pivotal role in attracting further new business.
The move has been spearheaded by joint managing director Howard Wainwright, supported by recently appointed Ian Howells.
The Kew office will be staffed by a mixture of the existing Powell Dobson team, who have relocated from Cardiff to London, together with new staff who have been recruited.
At capacity, the Kew office will be 15-strong.
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Eight Cornell architecture students in an Arch 501 studio received real-world experience this semester, working on a new community music center to be built in Valencia, Spain.
Students visited the site over spring break and met with architects in Valencia.
"We wanted to share all of our doubts and our concerns professionally with the students, with a real site, real conditions and the environment of what the project would be," said Anton García-Abril, principal architect of Ensamble Studio in Madrid, who taught the studio with colleague Debora Mesa Molina.
"We're working with the real needs of the city of Valencia.
Reality in urbanism and architecture is so strong that we don't need to create any fiction around it."
"We believe in the enormous talent of the students," García-Abril said.
"Architecture is something very difficult to teach.
You just can't transmit your point of view and your experience, but you can get them to take a lot of cultural interest and give them a little bit of guidance and stimulus to see how architecture works.
We can show them how we look at life through our architectural vision."
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