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I hope you did a health and safety assessment and were wearing a hard hat before you made this video.

Nice video..thanks for share….

... and it still has that ‘New Office’ smell. :)

That’s some office. I guess Big is the new Small. :)

I really like all the sound-proofing… way to think ahead. Nothing bugs me more about my current office than hearing the muffled sounds of conversations & office machinery from the business next door.

I’d imagine that sound-awareness is a product of working in a shared open space for so many years ; )

that’s ballah. congrats on all the success!

Congrats on the new space. I read the “The Way I Work” piece on you in Inc awhile back. Do you think the new office will change the way you work?

Why is it not surprising that you guys chose contractors that are particularly tidy. When the current Threadless office was being done, it looked like a bomb had gone off for 95% of the build out.

Awesome. Can’t wait to see the finished thing. You guys should let me come up and do a high quality 360 tour of the new digs. ;)

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Kudos on having sections of your windows that actually open. That makes such a big difference in a workspace. Can’t wait to see the finished digs.

Really nice space, but the video got me dizzy…

I wonder what’s the cost @ US for constructions like this, from an empty floor to a full office space. – Just wondering!

What? No rebar?

I’m bummed…

Looks awesome. I cannot wait to see it when it’s done! Who knows, maybe even attend a seminar or two :-)

Just curious, what did you shoot the video with? Looks pretty clear. I’m in the market for a flip-cam (or the like) but am just getting my feet wet with pros/cons. Thanks!

I can’t tell you how uninterested I am in your office space. I’m sure it’s immensely interesting and personally satisfying to you – hurray. How about back to something useful to your subscribers?

@Jason

I can guarantee you, the hardest those construction workers work, is when the boss is on site filming.

(So if you want them to finish early, stay on-site every day and film).

@37signals

Why do you tout the Basecamp export to XML “feature”, and make it seem like you did this and made a customer happy, on the Product Blog?

Linked in the article is the original request from the customer (Jasper van der Kolk).

The problem is that if you read the response by Jasper, he actually states:

“Still a little bit disappointed that .csv output is not a standard feature of Basecamp. For my company it will definitely mean we have to look for other project management tools. Which is a shame”

With that statement above, you probably don’t want to advertise this as a feature request you “satisfied” for a customer … because you didn’t.

Good to see architects who knows what they are doing :) ... I am working at a newly built office (not mine – kind of renting out some space in another company) where no thought was put into sound-proofing of a private cabin during planning stages … when I looked at the cork in the walls in the video, I was like – he could have paid more attention to this part rather than wasting time in color and veneer selections of the walls where I can hear whats going on from all 5 sides (including Mezzanine ceiling :)).

Really appreciate you sharing all this. Cos I know what kind of detailing to expect from the architect/designers when planing my own office in future.

@Thom: I’m not a 37S employee, but I think the reason they export to XML is because the data in Basecamp is intrinsically hierarchical. Flattening it out to CSV is not really well-defined.

Nice video quality. Wonder what camera that is.

@Mike Toreno

I’m less concerned with why it’s XML vs CSV … want I’m more concerned about is that they publicize this on their marketing web site (Product Blog) as a feature request they completed in response to a customer request, and how the customer is greatful … when in reality, the customer is still unsatisfied with the feature.

@thom

why are you so concerned w/ 37s publicizing a feature request on their site. just because you saw one customer unsatisfied doesn’t mean that it’s completely useless. besides this is a video post of their office, i’m sure there are better places to rant.

@Matt

“just because you saw one customer unsatisfied”

It’s important what that one customer was the original person requesting the feature!

The most popular “Construction on the new office” video in the Internet… provided to you by 37signals. You must be really excited to organise your new office – truly deserved!