Minimalist Transformation: 1960s Office Block Turned Into Penthouse with a Rooftop Pool
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The coldness of an office block is almost inevitable, regardless of who designed it or when they designed it. More often than not, office architecture and design aims to encourage an environment of professionalism, both between colleagues and among potential visitors. To that end, everything inside office spaces tends to be utilitarian, free of unnecessary ornamentation and therefore drained of any distinguishable personality. These days, the bland and almost dystopian office blocks of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s have been replaced by somewhat more comfortable workplace environs. Subsequently, most of those concrete structures full of long, institutional white hallways have either been demolished or renovated to suit modern tastes.
The austere skeletons of these buildings can be transformed into many things, but would you ever expect to see one morph into a stunning minimalist residence that would make Le Corbusier jealous" In Antwerp, Belgium, architect Hans Verstuyft did exactl...
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