2024-05-03T00:32:51-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/141527698/an-analysis-of-donut-shaped-buildings-in-modern-work-culture Justine Testado 2015-11-20T17:54:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/t7/t7ax0mgq2deb38ht.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>That&rsquo;s not to say that all circular buildings represent some emergent 21st-century order. It is interesting, though, that past precedents have usually been buildings designed for spectatorship: sports stadiums or, more resonantly, panopticon prisons, where inmates&rsquo; cells are arranged in a ring so they&rsquo;re visible to guards in a central observation tower. Take away that tower and you have the Apple campus.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Circles are an emerging form of office buildings (e.g. Apple HQ, Zappos, Government Communications HQ) and organizing people (<a href="http://www.holacracy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Holacracy</a>), as they convey positive qualities like transparency and open collaboration. But, as one New Zealand artist warns in his work, what sinister undertones linger within these structural concepts?</p><p>More on Archinect:</p><p><a title="Construction update: More (unofficial) drone footage of Apple's spaceship campus" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/135672288/construction-update-more-unofficial-drone-footage-of-apple-s-spaceship-campus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Construction update: More (unofficial) drone footage of Apple's spaceship campus</a></p><p><a title='"The Other Architect" explores alternative practices and radical research projects' href="http://archinect.com/news/article/139882440/the-other-architect-explores-alternative-practices-and-radical-research-projects" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Other Architect" explores alternative practices and radical research projects</a></p><p><a title='Is "individual expression" in architecture at risk?' href="http://archinect.com/news/article/135577259/is-individual-expression-in-architecture-at-risk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Is "individual expression" in architecture at risk?</a></p><p><a title="Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/104941214/anti-surveillance-camouflage-for-your-face" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face</a></p>