Goodbye office air-conditioning

While at an international energy conference, I met a researcher who is fond of not only doing energy research but also drawing architectural spaces. He mentioned that the air-cooling of old buildings fascinated him because they never needed any air conditioning. But he also emphasized how much of the global temperatures are changing, hence, building designs are evolving with it.

And here’s the thing.

Offices didn’t run with air-conditioning until the 1950s.

From Will Work for Air-Conditioning:

By 1951, the Empire State Building was air-conditioned, and in 1953, the Woolworth Building followed suit — though only in a third of its offices. When the Chrysler Building joined the party in 1954, “it was becoming apparent that A.C. was a must in the modern American office,” Mr. Basile said.

With the pandemic reorganizing everything about our lives, most of us bid farewell to the office air-conditioning in 2020 but some are now eager to go back just so they get freezing again.

How about you?

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