Where Comfort Is Obvious, and Wiring Less So

LIFETIME TELEVISION may be ahead of the digital curve, but when it came to designing a new Manhattan operations center, replacing old quarters inside a dark basement in Astoria, Queens, it decided to keep all its technology behind the scenes. The employees would be the stars of this production.

“We
knew we had to build a technical facility,” said Gwynne McConkey, the
senior vice president for operations, information systems and
technology for Lifetime Television and the Lifetime Movie Network. “But
equally important was to create a space that was welcoming to the
people who worked there.”

The idea was to separate the main work area from all the technology