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Offices and cultural buildings both offer the perfect opportunity to design the atrium of your dreams. These central spaces, designed to allow serendipitous meetings of users or to help with orientation in the building, are spacious and offer a lot of design freedom. Imposing scales, sculptural stairs, eccentric materials, and indoor vegetation are just some of the resources used to give life to these spaces. To help you with your design ideas, below we have gathered a selection of 15 notable atriums and their section drawings.
B30 / KAAN Architecten
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RIJNSTRAAT 8 / Ellen van Loon / OMA
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Macquarie Bank / Clive Wilkinson Architects
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Stuttgart City Library / Yi Architects
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Parque Toreo / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
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Rijksmuseum / Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
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Federal Center South Building 1202 / ZGF Architects
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The Hub Performance and Exhibition Center / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
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Intesa Sanpaolo Office Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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Äripäev Office / Arhitekt 11
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Library, Museum and Community Center ‘De Petrus’ / Molenaar&Bol&vanDillen Architects
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UN City / 3XN
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Harvard Art Museums Renovation and Expansion / Renzo Piano + Payette
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CREATE / Perkins+Will
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Polak Building / Paul de Ruiter Architects
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