RCN Builds New World Headquarters. 2001

The budding telecommunications conglomerate RCN has begun work on a new international seat to take the place of the company's formally passé Princeton offices.

The project attempts to bolster the company's corporate image which adheres to the fashionable style of iconoclasm that has served the dot-com revolution so well. To this end, or perhaps despite it, RCN has chosen a fine piece of real estate in Princessville and has commenced radical reshaping of the landscape to give the new headquarters a view over the adjacent office parks. The grand meadow and drainage that adorned a former office complex on the site has been raised over fifteen meters to provide the altitude required for the view.

And amidst the set of forces that have inspired the concern to assail new heights, "the new revolution of technology," a particularly architectural desire can be seen. The generic corporate headquarters that in yesteryear may have allowed for large groups of workers to share a single space, and which has been obsoleted by contemporary telecommunications which speeds communications without any requisite shared real estate, can be seen at RCN to be finding a resurgence.