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The headquarters of Unilever –a huge company selling basic products which have come to feature largely in our lives– is located in a picturesque town on the Rhine with under 50,000 inhabitants. For the interior of the new building the architects came up with the concept of the Agile Workplace that is ‘a flexible space facilitating teamwork, staff commitment, health and well-being’.
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Photo: a+t / César San Millán

Originally this was one single seventy-six square metre apartment which has been activated by implementing two actions: firstly, by connecting the basic elements (cooker, ironing board, bed, steps) with the living space using roll-down devices and secondly, by raising the common area (bathrooms, utility area, wardrobes) 60 centimetres.
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Following in the footsteps of the Googleplex, built by Clive Wilkinson in Mountain View in 2005, Camenzind Evolution was to come up with the Swiss version of the fun work space three years later. This is a 12,000 m2 shell with capacity for 800 employees, located on a reclaimed industrial estate.
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Photo: Nic Lehoux

This is the site of a clothes store which was the scene of a fire. The owner purchased the fire-damaged building and planned four apartments for himself and his family. The initial aim was for them to look like two- or three-storey houses rather than apartments.
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Photo: a+t / César San Millán
A design for a new neighbourhood with 650 dwellings. The main intention of the design is to create a new housing neighbourhood that is strongly connected to its surroundings. Thus, unlike most parts of the huge Ypenburg development of 12,000 new dwellings, it does not become an isolated fragment of housing. The building blocks integrate with the neighbouring areas to the east by continuing its orthogonal pattern of roads and blocks. As the new housing blocks move toward the park area on.
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The option for this Google sales office –occupying 16,000 m2 over several storeys of the Central Saint Giles Building, a complex of office and residential units designed by Renzo Piano in 2010– was to recreate the interior of a London townhouse, in its most stereotypical version.
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Photo: Tomio Ohashi, Mikel Sanz

The interior of this small house in the Foz Velha area of Porto contains a series of flexible flowing spaces which link the functions of living, eating and cooking on the ground floor with sleeping on the first floor and working in the small office under the roof.
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