Equinox
AudenThe offices of Harcourt + Trask are in a renovated coach manufactory in Belgravia, and they’re almost too sleek, a too effortless-mix-of-old-brick-and-new-glass, and sometimes Auden finds himself wincing when he walks inside. The two stories of the office have been renovated in such a way that the second floor is not a full floor, but is instead something more like a rectangular gallery above the first, meaning that someone on the first floor can look up through the opening in the second floor and see the exposed Victorian roof supports and the sloped ceiling—all painted a near-painful white. He supposes the intention was to create the illusion of air and light—same with the glassed-in meeting rooms with their modish, brushed steel chairs and tables—and perhaps it would wor
