Volkema might succeed, with 35-year-old Ayse Birsel and her Resolve office system, which redefines open-plan office space at 120-degree angles with a combination of poles, arms and screens.

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It would create three storeys of open-plan office space, leaving the original building untouched.

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One thing is certain, Shanghai is new, Shanghai is open for business, Shanghai wants more corporations renting office space.

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Nonprofit 1871 on May 2 will open its doors to about 100 start-ups seeking affordable office space and a collaborative work environment in a new 50, 000-square-foot center, which is now under construction in the city's Merchandise Mart.

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Meanwhile in Downtown Manhattan, One World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower) is slated to open its doors in 2013, adding 2.6 million in new office space to the mix.

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If Office Depot can open up a retail shop that is also a coworking space, what about a department store opening up space for you to create and customize your own clothing in stores?

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The perfect office was less focused on perfection and more on how to open up a space to inspire an imaginative environment that increased productivity at the workplace.

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Michael Beavin, a programme analyst at the Office of Space Commercialisation in America's Commerce Department, says that the wording of the legislation is open to broader interpretation than Congress intended.

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