Month: October 2025

There will be multiple dining options and coffee bars throughout the building, with the main food exchange on the second floor.

Some of the conferencing spaces will have views of a 1.5-acre park being developed next to the campus. The building will have multiple conferencing spaces.

The new renderings offer a glimpse of the open-air work floors, which will feature collaboration spaces.

The Commons will serve as a communal gathering space for employees, designed in the same earthy hues as some other areas of the building.

Renderings of the lobby show elements of nature, a focus of the overall design. The workspaces evoke “an interior park,” Ece Calguner Erzan, a principal at one of the design firms, said in the October 1 press release.

Previous renderings of the building’s exterior show rooftop gardens and terraces that the bank will use for events and where employees can get some fresh air. The project’s landscape designer, Michael VanValkenburg, is behind Brooklyn Bridge Park and Maggie Daley Park. He is also responsible for the 1.5-acre park.

The electrically powered building will sit on three acres in the city’s Victory Park neighborhood. Employees will have access to bike parking, lockers, changing facilities, and underground parking for vehicles.

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Upon entry, I was handed a free bottle of New Zealand-sourced artisan water and swiftly ushered through a tour of the futuristic space. I imagined this is how it would feel if Elon Musk opened up SpaceX.

The space had dim lighting, rounded furniture, and an ultramodern interior design juxtaposed with floor-to-ceiling windows and lush plants sprouting from beneath the floor. Most of its services were offered in private rooms, while others, like its cold plunge tubs, were in the center of the space.

While walking through the facility, I passed a woman casually working on her laptop — inside a hyperbaric chamber, which is basically a pressurized oxygen pod with a mask and tubes. I felt like an alien touring a modern human zoo. Terrifyingly confronting.

Finally, I was brought to the AI massage room by a human (I can’t believe I have to specify this), where I found a contraption much more basic than the rest of the space suggested. It was essentially a normal massage bed with two robot arms jutting out and an iPad-sized tablet positioned under the face hole.

After I suited up, the attendant returned and told me to lie facedown on the table for a bodyscan. Then, about a minute later, the tablet projected a high-definition 3D image of my body, which was a jumpscare I was not prepared to see.

According to the attendant, this helped the robot know where I was and allowed me to control its movements more precisely. Once everything was set up, she left me alone with my new mechanical masseuse and encouraged me to tailor my experience with the tablet.

When the robot turned on and placed its hands, roughly the size and weight of human fists, on my back, I immediately tensed up. I sent up a silent prayer that all the “pleases” and “thank-yous” I’d ever said to ChatGPT might buy me some goodwill with the machines.

Despite the initial discomfort, I slowly relaxed as the robot swept up and down my back, mimicking a Swedish massage. I’ve had a few Swedish massages in the past few years, and to my surprise, it did kind of feel like a human. That’s when the glow of the touchscreen 10 inches below my face became impossible to ignore.

My 3D body was still on-screen, now with two orb-like icons tracking the robot’s movements. Alongside it were options to adjust intensity, pause, or stop. The interface walked me through each moment: what part of my body it was working on, what technique it was using (lengthening, relaxing), and for how long.

Naturally, I started exploring. I found options to change visuals and music, which turned my massage into a dissociation session on the tablet. The playlists covered everything: hip hop, chill EDM, indie rock, rain sounds, and even Brat Radio. The ability to skip songs was intoxicating, thus prompting my eventual foray into “Coconuts” by Kim Petras.

The room was dimmed, but I got to choose my visuals on the tablet, such as sticking with the 3D scan or switching to rainfall, snowfall, rippling water, or just a plain black screen. By then, the novelty had faded, so I tried to mimic the ambiance of a typical massage by putting on relaxing music and the black screen.

My body finally adapted to the robot, and it was genuinely relaxing — though I still flinched when it pressed near my spine and vital organs. When it was over, I (shockingly) found myself preferring the touch of a human who could adapt in real time.

While I loved skipping the awkward small talk in favor of uninterrupted “me” time, I preferred the intuition, emotional presence, and diversity of a real masseuse’s touch.

The tablet was a fun novelty, but as someone who already spends most of my day staring at screens, I kind of wished for an hour away from one.

At $99, it’s a solid option for people who want solitude and full control over their massage experience, but I’m not sure I’ll be going back.

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