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By Kim Velsey 4/03 4:08pm

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The desk of Steve Rubel, Chief Content Strategist at Edelman.

Where I Work: LinkedIn Series Plays To Our Obsession With Productivity

You know that you’re in trouble when you start fantasizing about work, and not even work per se, but being more productive at work. This has, we are a little embarrassed to admit, been happening to us with increasing frequency. Maybe if we woke up earlier? Or should we go to bed even later? There’s a lovely quietude at 2 or 3 or even 4 a.m., a clarity and focus that comes when the world is asleep and the streets are quiet, but rising late means starting each day feeling like a slugabed.

On the weekend, the problems expand: work from home, go to the office, try to focus amid the distracting chatter and cutthroat outlet competition of a coffee shop? Would we be more productive if we logged more hours in front of our computer, or less, the tonic of relaxation reviving our creative energies? The cruel catch-22 of it all is that thinking and worrying about productivity makes us even less productive. Read More

By Matt Chaban 11:28am

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Villareal on Sixth

Avenue of the LEDs: Leo Villareal’s Largest Installation Is Inside a New Durst Office Lobby

Sixth Avenue is a haven for corporate art, from Robert Indian’s Love to Curved Cube outside the Time Life Building, to say nothing of the massive galleries spanning the entire block between 51st and 52nd streets inside the UBS Building. The Avenue of the Americas is also home to mostly older office buildings, still very splendid and class A, but many in need of updating. It has become a hub of new elevators and air conditioners and reconfigured lobbies.

At 1133 Sixth Avenue, the Durst Organization is merging these two currents, popular public art and a sparkling new lobby, into a striking whole. The centerpiece of a new Gensler-designed lobby is an installation by light artist Leo Villareal, Volume (Durst). At 90-feet long, 12-feet high and 6-feet deep, the dazzling sculpture is Mr. Villareal’s largest three-dimensional work yet. Floating near the top of the lobby, it not only enlivens the space but the avenue, as well, fully visible through the two-story windows facing out on the plaza between the International Center for Photography on one side and a bank on the other.

“I love the chance encounter,” Mr. Villareal said at an opening reception for the lobby Tuesday night. Read More

By Guelda Voien 9/13/11 1:28pm

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Tara Stacom of Cushman & Wakefield.

The Fall Season in Downtown

“I’m more bullish today than I was in 2007,” said Cushman & Wakefield’s Tara Stacom of  1 World Trade and the outlook for the 1,776-foot tower that will offer 3.1 million square feet of Class A office space. “I did not think one of the first tenants would be a million-plus feet.”

Signing the lease with Condé Nast in May of this year was, for lack of a less hackneyed term, a game-changer for downtown Manhattan, especially as the area emerges not only from the Great Recession but from the malaise that characterized so much of the area since 9/11. Read More

By Tom Acitelli 8/25/11 2:07pm

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Those were the days. And they still are!

Ctrl-C Everlasting: Tech Firms Keep Moving to Silicon Alley, We Keep Writing About It

God bless the Silicon Alley trend piece. We’ve done one (and then another about a colony of the alley); and, incidentally, we cover the industry regularly every day here. No matter how much ink is proverbially spilled in deference to the tech industry’s growth, we as New York reporters can’t seem to get enough of the nerds-are-among-us-and-they-need-space-to-work angle. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 7/06/11 4:59pm

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7-hanover

Braving Bad Juju, International Business Times Moves Into Newsweek’s Old Newsroom

The International Business Times inherited the old Newsweek newsroom at 7 Hanover Square over the weekend.

A general interest global business news site, IBT has flown under the radar since their launch five years ago. But perhaps not for long. Executive editor Jonathan Davis pointed out that the space is far too big for their staff of roughly 50 reporters, suggesting a hiring spree is on the way. (What warms a new office better?) Read More

By Pamela Engel 6/29/11 1:15pm

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915 Broadway, which was shunned by Guardian America

Guardian Bypasses Old Observer Space, Picking Onion as Neighbor

Apparently The Observer‘s old space wasn’t good enough for lefty rag The Guardian—they’re now close to signing a lease at 536 Broadway, according to Real Estate Weekly.

Although the American website of the British newspaper previously  considered leasing the old Observer space at 915 Broadway in the Flatiron, it’s now heading downtown to the corner of Broadway and Spring Street to look at a smaller space that’s between 8,000 and 9,000 square feet. Read More