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A common area for sharing stories and laughs with family and friends, your living room should be a comfortable, stylish space that lends itself to long chats and memorable moments. Give your space a top-to-bottom refresh, or simply swap a few key piec…

Located in the busy Sertório Avenue the site was already occupied by a two story building on its front and a storage warehouse on the back of the lot. This was the site chosen by the ThyssenKrupp company to establish its GSS division – Global Shared Services – in Latin America. This division, which has offices in cities such as Essen and Bochum in Germany, Gdansk in Poland and Thane in India, aims to standardize and efficiently run administrative functions worldwide in finance and accounting, human resources, IT and real estate management. With occupation planned in three different phases, the building, which employs today around 100 employees, will be able to absorb up to 235 people. For this, a retrofit design became necessary.

A movement is growing against cultural appropriation, but we mustn’t let it spell the end for historical references in architecture, says Phineas Harper. Compared to other art forms, architecture gets an easy ride in the court of public opinion. Filmmakers, pop musicians and fashion designers know, one ill-judged move and they’ll be hung out to dry by a

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