How Architects and Designers Shifted Focus During the Pandemic

Time was when architects designed entire office buildings for owners that tenants then filled, with no thought to workers’ comfort beyond maybe the restrooms and the kitchenettes. Not anymore.

The rapid amenitization of offices since the start of the pandemic has affected not just the tenants who occupy the properties, the owners who build them out, and the various firms that service them — think everyone from cleaners to landscapers for terraces to maintenance crews for golf simulators — but another class of commercial real estate: the architects who design the amenity spaces.

Read more in this article from Commercial Observer.