Creativity Exchange: Second Home
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Argues that architecture can drive collaboration and shows a working prototype: a converted East London carpet factory filled with 1,000 plants and trees, curving, nature-led interiors, private soundproof studios and communal hubs. Demonstrates ritualized collisions with a 1.5-ton motorised table that drops into an auditorium nightly; tenants range from Santander’s FinTech fund to tiny storytelling startups and every US tech that opened in London that autumn took space. Expands to Lisbon with seven full-sized trees on new floors.
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