Selgas Cano Architecture Office;(Bharadwaj trivedi)

If you're a friend of the forest, it's hard to imagine a better office environment than the one that architectural firm, Selgas Cano, recently built to work out of, in Madrid.
It's really not much more than a tube, sunken into the ground, with a long window on one side. But as with any good architecture, a little goes a long way: Sinking the building into the ground is an ancient strategy to improve building insulation. Inside, the recessed floors make it seem as if you're completely immersed in the woods, when you're looking up. Here are some photographs.