“…in corporate terms security of
communications and records is already more important than architecture.
In fact, in some ways, conventional corporate architecture,
conspicuous, lavish and creative, has become a business liability, an
easy target for public displeasure, or an individual with a grudge. As
a result many major corporations not only have ‘hot sites’ but ‘remote
sites’ too, places where their core business can be carried on in peace
and quiet. The German airline Lufthansa has storefront offices in major
cities all over the world, but all its reservations are handled from a
facility in rural Galway in Ireland – as are those of American Airlines
and Korean Air. “