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The main area of change is in the newly
created double-height reception gallery, which incorporates the
boardroom and bar over a bridge spanning between the two. Directly
in front is the cafe. A mezzanine has been created to ease the
route between 10th and 9th floor leading down to the (30 foot-long)
bar. The completion of the processional route is the 32 person-boardroom
which, is formed by a suspended plaster shroud wrapped in glass.
This two-story room, chapel-like in scale, frames a view of the
entry-bridge above.
Much of the construction is metal stud
frame, clad in plasterboard, decorated matte white, with glazing
housed in an aluminum system. A series of Reglit amoeboid constructions
inhabit, without blocking out the light, the open-plan space
around the perimeter The reception and resource galleries are
designed in contrast. The first is light, the second dark, the
first colored by (red) pigment, the second by a multiplicity
of colored light reflected in the hard metal and graphic surfaces. |
