Re-doing floor texture, decided to use alpha channels so that the posters are easily distinguished or identified.
Making the side of the sphere 90% transparency so that the cones can be seen. Didn't like this effect because you could barely see what you could stand on.
Used a more opaque percentage, and it gave a better effect because the space was identified quite easily.
Rendered finals. 
Office is nearly done, just have to do a texture for the hemisphere platform, so that it is more eye-catching - may include an alpha material.
Looked at different combinations of texture, so that the building would just not be the same from one side to the other. In the above shot, I tried making the colours blend from one end to the other. It looked a bit tacky, however, I liked how the seat came out, it kind of pointed out that this cylindrical object could actually be sat on.
Changed textures again, looked at repetitions (note how the first 2 cones in front are differently textured, even tho its the same texture).
In the end, I only altered the furtherest cone in colour because it gave a very clear contrast to the surroundings, showing where the office ends.
Looked at blog site placement.
Evaluated structure as a whole. I didn't like how the posters bent and revealed a space, and I modified it.
Made it into a block formation, so that the Putahi directory was not in such a major position, but is still able to be accessed by walking to.
Realised the block formation would hide the Putahi Directory away, and some people may not realise it's behind the blog site object.
Surfing the blog site.
Slimmed the edges of the blog website, allow room for the Putahi Directory to be in line with all the other posters.
Office from far away. I decided to alter the poster shapes. My office is made up of spheres and cones, and it tried to stray away from the conventional, so therefore I decided to change the poster board shapes also, to stay with this theme.
Curved poster. Because of how I made the shape, the texture was on the wrong way, and there was no way to fix it.
New poster shapes.
I liked the new poster shape, because it connected the top and the bottom, your eye follows it quite easily.
Decided to compromise, because a curved poster texture was impractical. The new shape displays information easily and straightforward, and also allows the eye to connect top and bottom of the office.
The posters in a row.
Starting to implement posters of my journals and also starting to script the posters to link to their respective sites.
Started looking at alpha channels and transparency on the base floor. It looked quite nice because it gave an illusion that the cones were being used as part of the structure also.
Right hand side : this blog is being able to be surfed on through second life without opening the browser.
The posters definitely made the structure look very heavy, and discarded this idea.
I preferred the sort of lightness in the structure.
The second life browser allowing you to surf the blog. The snapshot shows the page on the blog "T & T".
My colleagues and I collaborated together to have a Putahi directory, a poster which would allow you to teleport to anyone else
Started looking at using only the hemisphere foundation as my dynamic space.
Put all my posters relatively same height, and left my broswer window a bit bigger. It looked a bit out of place though, so I resized it below. I left it because it had a nice simple thing going throughout the posters, same size, space between, angle etc.
Used the texture below also to see what would happen with colour tints in the texture.
Quited liked how the building's texture was better now - and fitted with the landscape quite well.
Didn't like the aesthetic the orange tint gave to the office. Moved on to dark and light textures, and ignoring the warm and cold coloured textures.
Started looking closer to pattern, repetition and rotation to see what had the best aesthetic. Above is normal.
Rotated 90 degrees.
Rotated 180 degrees. (virtually no difference to the normal version). Stuck with the normal look, because when the texture was rotated 90 degrees, it looked a bit wiry, whereas the normal one looked like it was weaved.
I also looked at darker textures because the lighter textures did not have as much of an impact in normal sunlight (blended too well into the landscape).
However, I started looking at different sunlight modes (midnight, sunrise etc), and realised the dark texture did not have a desirable effect each time. I moved back to the light texture to see its effect.
I quite liked the contrast here, in comparison to the daytime, where its colour made the structure blend into the landscape a bit too well. I moved on to a texture that was halfway - not dark and not too light. I used a combination of opacity and layer effects to achieve new textures from existing ones.
Above texture was done using a darker brown layer with an opacity 70% and multiply effect.
I liked how this texture brought the structure out, and made you able to notice it.
View from afar.
Even darker texture.
90% opacity, overlay effect.
Structure in sunset light mode.