Moving on up the corporate ladder... sort of

 Fact of the Day:

It is generally considered a giant step to get your own corner office in a skyscraper, an enviable view of the ants that lay beneath you. These corner offices are often reserved for shift supervisors and upper management... but in Minneapolis' tallest tower, getting a corner office JUST isn't that special. Designed by Philip Johnson, The IDS Tower constructed in 1973 was a monolistic behemoth towering over what was originally a very short skylyine decimated by urban renewel. Johnson became a premier architect in several of the US' architectural movements including modernism, minimalism and pop art. He is most notable for helping design the Seagram Building in NY which emphasized functionality and bringing architecture further away from older schools of design. The sleek glass curtain of the IDS Tower is considered among his most iconic works, emphasizing simplicity in form. However, one unique aspect of his design is the staggered corner setbacks that he termed "zogs". This created a number of corners for each floor, 32 in all PER floor. Although I do not know the current use of these floors or their layouts, it is possible to have 1662 corner offices (52 occupied floors * 32 corner offices). Getting a corner office just isn't as cool as those traditional rectangular prisms.