“How can we redesign our work environment to better suit the needs of today’s generation?” This is the question that inspired Fosbury - Sons’ founders, Stijn Geeraets, Serge Hannecart and Maarten Van Gool, in their quest to create a holistic, elegant, and people-oriented workplace. After successfully launching their “shared offices” idea in Antwerp in 2016, it is the peaceful suburb of Boitsfort in Brussels that now hosts their new communal workplace. This is actually the first out of three new sites they will be opening in Brussels within the year in order to bring, as they like to say, “work to life”. Thinking outside the box is the knack of the company that named themselves after Dick Fosbury, an athlete who defied the norm and totally changed the world of high jump competition by introducing his own style. “I’ve worked for large organizations, I drank my coffee every day from a plastic cup, surrounded by clutter...I started to wonder, why does the office look like this?” argues Geeraets who believes that society’s perception of ‘working’ is already shifting towards a sense of autonomy, commitment without restraints, and the notion that time is our own to master.

“我们如何重新设计我们的工作环境，以更好地适应当代的需要？”这就是启发福斯伯里的问题

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If truth be told, we live in a time of communal thinking where the thin line between work and life is becoming even more blurred. People work and travel all around the world and the conventional 9-5 almost no longer exists. In this time of nomadic professionalism, a new type of workspace needs to cater to the unplugged, unattached creativity of a whole generation of people who are driven less by pay raises and more by respectful working conditions and inspiring surroundings. A sense of togetherness where privacy is guarded and networking is highly encouraged through common working spaces and relaxing living spaces is exactly what Fosbury - Sons provides to freelancers, startups and larger corporations in need of a foothold to branch out from. Their Boitsfort office building covers 7,000 square metres of such workplace ethics, spread over seven of the nine floors -and three underground parking lots- of a modernist masterpiece of the seventies, located right next to the scenic Sonian forest.

如果说实话，我们生活在一个共同思考的时代，工作和生活之间的界限变得更加模糊。人们在世界各地工作和旅行，传统的9-5几乎不再存在.在这个游牧职业的时代，一种新型的工作空间需要迎合整个一代人的不插电的、独立的创造力，他们更多地受到尊重的工作条件和激励环境的驱使。通过共同的工作空间和放松的生活空间，高度鼓励保护隐私和建立网络的团聚感，这正是福斯伯里所做的。

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The building itself once served as the headquarters of the cement company CBR, designed by Constantin Brodzki, the post-war architect who worked on the Oscar Niemeyer-designed United Nations building, in the United States. Brodzki, still very much into the scene at 94, considers this to be “the most modern building in Belgium”, and the architecture of the construction is an ode to the architect’s love of modern techniques he brought back with him from the USA. Its sculptural forms were so unusual at the time that they inspired a whole generation of designers while earning him a place in the ‘Transformations in Modern Architecture 1960-1980’ exposition at MOMA, making him the only Belgian architect to win the accolade. During the restoration of the monumental building, the 756 organically shaped, oval concrete modules of its facade and their amber tinted glazings were kept intact, preserving the building’s impressive, Doric profile. Walking in through the discreet entrance, the warm feel of the luxurious, contemporary office interiors meets the powerful framework that preserves the building’s austere identity, in what is a happy marriage that evokes a new modernist reading, perfectly fitting of our century. The reception desk once selected by Brodzki himself is still here, restored, as is the spiraling concrete staircase he conceived back in 1970, together with its imposing lightness.

这座建筑本身曾经是水泥公司CBR的总部，由战后建筑师Constantin Brodzki设计，他在美国奥斯卡·尼迈耶设计的联合国大楼工作。布罗茨基，在94岁的时候仍然在现场，认为这是“比利时最现代化的建筑”，建筑的建筑是对他从美国带来的现代技术的热爱的颂歌。它的雕塑形式在当时是如此的不寻常，他们启发了整整一代的设计师，同时也让他在MOMA的“现代建筑的转变”展览中占有一席之地，使他成为唯一位获得这一殊荣的比利时建筑师。在修复这座不朽建筑的过程中，它的正面756个有机的、椭圆形的混凝土模块及其琥珀色的格子被完整地保存了下来，保持了建筑物令人印象深刻的多利克轮廓。走进谨慎的入口处，奢华的现代办公室内部的温馨感觉，满足了强有力的框架，保留了这栋建筑朴素的身份，这是一段幸福的婚姻，唤起了一种新的现代主义解读，完全符合我们这个世纪的要求。接待处曾经由布罗茨基自己挑选，现在还在这里修复，1970年他构想的螺旋式混凝土楼梯，以及它那壮丽的轻盈。

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Design agency Going East of Anaïs Torfs and Michiel Mertens is to be praised for this nod of respect to the building’s original DNA. Materials were preserved, cupboards, furniture, built-in units, door handles, radiator caps, and wooden window casings were repaired, and structures were highlighted. New technology has met organic materials in a flowing and effortless manner, while the warm grey shades of the rough concrete have joined golden toned timber flooring, creating a serene working environment where there is no room for hostile, impersonal cubicles and harsh, artificial light. Large green plants share the light flowing freely from the large windows, while artworks curated in collaboration with Brussels galleries Rodolphe Janssen and Veerle Verbakel, artists Perry Ronberts and Florian Tomballe, and the Private Art Support Foundation, stand in place of the whiteboards and photocopied masterpieces usually found on office walls.

设计机构前往东面的Ana‘s Torfs和米希尔梅滕斯是值得赞扬的，因为这是对建筑物的原始DNA的尊重。材料得到保存，橱柜、家具、内建单元、门把手、散热器盖和木窗壳得到修复，并突出了结构。新技术以流畅和毫不费力的方式遇到了有机材料，而粗糙混凝土的暖暖的灰色阴影加入了金色的木材地板，创造了一个安静的工作环境，没有空间容纳敌对的、无人情味的隔间和刺眼的人工光线。大型绿色植物共享从大窗户自由流过的光线，而与布鲁塞尔画廊(布鲁塞尔画廊)、鲁道夫·詹森(Rodolphe Janssen)和韦尔勒·韦尔巴克尔(Veerle Verbakel)、艺术家佩里·朗伯茨(Perry Ronberts)和弗洛里安·汤巴勒(Florian Tomballe)以及私人艺术支持基金会(Private Art Support Foundation)合作制作的

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The lobby on the ground floor offers a bar for casual meetings, while the seven floors above provide several open workspaces, together with private office spaces called ‘Suites’ and shared private rooms called ‘Ateliers’. A restaurant by Coffeelabs, a bar on the eighth floor with a panoramic view over the forest, 15 highly equipped meeting rooms and an auditorium that can accommodate up to 75 people, make for a very alluring take on public office spaces. There’s even a pool table for lunchtime bets. This inspiring workplace where individualism is celebrated together with teamwork, has managed to create an interactive cosmos where different professionals can work, meet and exchange ideas: Kind of like a LinkedIn space for the 600 people and 250 companies it can host. It seems like networking is the new career move to make, and this building supports just that.

底层的大堂提供一间酒吧，供休闲会议使用，而上面七层提供了几个开放的工作区，还有称为“套房”(Suites)的私人办公空间，以及名为“Atelier”的共用私人房间。一家咖啡餐厅，八楼的一家酒吧，可以俯瞰森林，15间设备精良的会议室和一个可容纳75人的礼堂，在公共办公空间上非常吸引人。午餐时间甚至还有一张台球桌。在这个激励人心的工作场所里，个人主义和团队合作一起得到了庆祝，创造了一个互动的宇宙，不同的专业人士可以在这里工作、见面和交流想法：就像LinkedIn为600人和250家公司提供的空间。网络似乎是一个新的职业发展方向，而这座建筑正是支持这一点的。

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