These views exist if you're looking out the 15th floor window of building that this tech company calls their New York home. Can you guess the problem?
No, it's not that they don't have space on the 15th floor - because they do. But it isn't large enough to be occupied by more than a hundred or so of the company's 2,000-some New York City based employee base, most of whom sit on the windowless fourth floor. All this we overheard a tour guide tell a group of shockingly attentive 5th grade-sized visitors while we lunched on a salad laced with summer squash, succulent melon and a sprinkling of Feta.
So what was to be done about the poor viewless 4th floor-ers? What else could be done, really, but to build them a view in short order.
But there was another problem. Can you guess it?
If you guessed, you can't just build a wall of windows into the 4th floor of a city block sized office building in short order, you would be right. So this commissioned some high definition photographs out the 15th floor window, and printed them on photo paper so large they had to special-order a printer heavy duty enough to accomplish the job. The mural was then laser printed and stuck on the wall where the employees could gaze longingly at it, enjoying a sunny view of the city four seasons a year, no matter the weather outside.
Of course, by the time the special order printer had arrived and done the lord's work, "short order" had come and gone and the company had managed to clear the way for a few extra actual windows.
Go figure.
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