A couple weeks ago I posted “The top ten reasons for sitting in the corner of a room.” While researching corners online, another form of corner came up… the street corner.
A search for corner on the cartoonbank yields alot of comic strips with people standing at the corner of a building. This type of corner is interesting, because it’s the exact inverse of a corner in a room. The corner of a room is negative space. Where the corner of a building is positive space. The corner of a room is an enveloping feeling. The corner of a building is a pointing feeling.
The corner of a building implies a turn. There’s that side and this side. So it’s not really pointing. Because you can go around the turn. Whereas in a room it’s like there is one focal point you can exist in. Oh that’s the difference. The focal point in a building is a physical object. The focal point in a room is a space you can exist in.
Also interesting is the fact that the corner office of a building is considered to be the most prestigous office.
The corner space in the context of a room = low ranking
The corner rooom in the context of a building = high ranking
Weird, your thing says there’s a comment on this entry, but there’s not. Annnnyway . . . I like having the corner desk in an office, as long as if faces TOWARD the door, not away from it. As for the corner office . . . I wouldn’t know, ’cause I’ve never had one. ;o)
a comment was left here that was meant to be left for another post, so i moved it. Sometimes the number of comments sticks in the database when i moved comments or delete them. they say it’s better to have you facing the doorway of an office room rather than having your back facing the doorway. Energy-wise, but also it just makes pratical sense.
I’m more for the practical sense aspect, although I won’t discount the energy/feng-shui thing, either. For me, it’s just a matter of, if somebody’s approaching, I want to know. I mean, you have eyes for a reason, right?