To be fair. Now you can run electrical, and data wires without fucking up the ceiling.
And heating cooling needs a plenum. Lighting, network etc.
It's sad we have to scroll down for an intelligent comment.
Those drop ceilings deaden sound and echos too.
without fucking up the ceiling
No, there were two choices for how to fuck up that ceiling, and they chose one. Replacing all the beauty with sterilized, lifeless, office inanity still fucked it up, even if it was more easily functional.
So I run cat5 in ceilings. Would you rather me screw in anchors for the cable hangers into that plaster?
That would be another way of fucking up the ceiling, sure.
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