Jan 22nd 2014, 15:37, by Valentina Palladino
Some 50 years ago, Bell Labs was bustling and full of life. The Eero Saarinen-designed facility was a hub for scientists who helped contribute to innovations like touch-tone dialing, the microwave, and the cellphone. Its complicated yet functional layout allowed workers to collaborate by running into each other in its sprawling hallways, sharing the occasional cigarette on its ashtray-equipped balconies.
But that was over a half-century ago — since 2007, Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, has been empty. It was shut down when its owner, French telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent, consolidated research facilities, leaving all of its 1.9 million square feet vacant and waiting for either destruction or revival. Not only is the...
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