I had to visit a doctor's office last week, I have one checkup a year that I can afford that monitors some "you're getting old" things. The doctor I go to moved offices last year, and they're now in an office that was built just to be a medical office. Not that the last one wasn't designed to be that as well, but it was just one of those generic banal 90s building with the hip roof and carriage awning. Inside that building was a big waiting area with a bunch of glass fronts where the receptionists for each doctor sat, and big heavy wooden doors with the little glass slot in them. What I would consider to be a normal office for that type of profession, nothing you'd even think twice about.
This new building put me off immediately. The exterior is of course, that class of ugly that modern structures use, but that's everywhere so that was not really a thing. But you walk in, and instead of a nice, open reception area it's all confined with kiosks where you sign in. It felt close and strange, like it was intentionally designed to feel crowded. You get more than 4-6 people in this area and it's going to be overcrowded. That was odd, but it took me a while to realize what really made me feel creeped out.
The floor I was visiting just felt wrong when I stepped off the elevator. This morning, I realized because of the way it was set up. It's not a professional office, like you've come to think of that. It's intentionally winding halls, everything behind doors including the elevator area, big roll-back doors in the patient rooms with that trendy wavy glass, and it has a bunch of these tiny little offices for people, including the receptionist. Offices that are packed to the gills with furniture that you'd see in a model house, not office furniture. Even the waiting room tries to look like someone's living room instead of a medical office. Big windows everywhere with this minimalistic furniture. It's one of those things that's just hard to describe but you just jitter in your seat because you feel like this is going to waver and fade into something else when you're not looking. In essence, it's trying way too hard to be friendly and homey, and it fails because it's like a cake that has too much frosting on it and too sugar in it to hide the fact that it's actually crap.
I had to visit a doctor's office last week, I have one checkup a year that I can afford that monitors some "you're getting old" things. The doctor I go to moved offices last year, and they're now in an office that was built just to be a medical office. Not that the last one wasn't designed to be that as well, but it was just one of those generic banal 90s building with the hip roof and carriage awning. Inside that building was a big waiting area with a bunch of glass fronts where the receptionists for each doctor sat, and big heavy wooden doors with the little glass slot in them. What I would consider to be a normal office for that type of profession, nothing you'd even think twice about.
This new building put me off immediately. The exterior is of course, that class of ugly that modern structures use, but that's everywhere so that was not really a thing. But you walk in, and instead of a nice, open reception area it's all confined with kiosks where you sign in. It felt close and strange, like it was intentionally designed to feel crowded. You get more than 4-6 people in this area and it's going to be overcrowded. That was odd, but it took me a while to realize what really made me feel creeped out.
The floor I was visiting just felt wrong when I stepped off the elevator. This morning, I realized because of the way it was set up. It's not a professional office, like you've come to think of that. It's intentionally winding halls, everything behind doors including the elevator area, big roll-back doors in the patient rooms with that trendy wavy glass, and it has a bunch of these tiny little offices for people, including the receptionist. Offices that are packed to the gills with furniture that you'd see in a model house, not office furniture. Even the waiting room tries to look like someone's living room instead of a medical office. Big windows everywhere with this minimalistic furniture. It's one of those things that's just hard to describe but you just jitter in your seat because you feel like this is going to waver and fade into something else when you're not looking. In essence, it's trying way too hard to be friendly and homey, and it fails because it's like a cake that has too much frosting on it and too sugar in it to hide the fact that it's actually crap.
