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xxxxxLocated on the third floor of a narrow brick-faced office building in SoHo, the lobby of Rang Phueng Design is a comfortable place to wait. There are a number of paintings hung on the walls, brightly colored though somewhat fantastical cityscapes. A large aquarium on one wall, clean and carefully tended, hosts brightly colored marine life swimming through a number of plants and coral. The table amid all the large cheerfully blue-and-silverygrey microsuede couches has a sampling of architectural magazines as well as popular ones, magazines and newspapers generally actually up to date. The receptionist desk is a large black wood one, though it is unmanned. Off to the side a small table has a little refreshment stand set up, a Keurig coffeemachine with a large selection of tea-coffee-cocoa choices and a minifridge beneath the table with juice and water and soda.
xxxxxThrough the door in back of the lobby is an enormous workshop space, wide and airy. Spacious drafting tables take up much of the center of the room, a number of glass-topped desks edging the sides though only one of them against the back windows actually boasts a computer. Walls painted white and paneled in glass turn most of the wallspace into whiteboard, generally covered with notes and measurements. The back wall's large windows look out onto the streets.
xxxxxTwo side doors lead to office space at the side. One leads off to a moderately sized office space, dwarfed by the workshop beside it and furnished simply but comfortably for working out of. The other space is unfurnished, though often cluttered with storage boxes in plenty.
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- Getting all the paperwork done to get this place set up, as well as the actual cost of the office space itself, was all taken care of for Hive by the Mendel Clinic as his bonus when the Clinic was finished being built, in lieu of just cutting him a more traditional check.
- Aside from the carefully tended decorative saltwater tank against the wall, there is a single goldfish in a much smaller aquarium sitting on the receptionist desk. The goldfish (unnamed, though generally referred to by such monikers as Hors D'oeuvre or Appetizer) has actually died and been replaced several times by Hive and Jim, each without telling the other and hoping that they don't notice the switch.
- There are photographs around the walls of the work Hive has done -- the Clinic, the Commons, the rebuilt segment of the Hellfire Clubhouse, a shiny new office building downtown; these photographs are paired off opposite paintings of the same places done in a much more surrealist style.
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