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The project of head office CBE

German architectural group Henn Architekten has won competition on the best civil-engineering design of head office Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in Addis Ababa.

Unusual way of the organisation

Thin office building will be executed with optical effect of «presence of hollow structures» at change of a point of the review. For the account of such unusual way of organisation of base level of a building, some problems are reached — increased the areas of ground floors illuminated by natural light, interesting appearance of a design is created, is involved additional attention of visitors of the centre which bottom part it is planned to use as a trading complex that will cut expenses on building operation.

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

At ceremony of rewarding of the architects who have presented the project — the winner of the tender, the president of bank has declared, that «the new approach to building and use of the main offices, the interesting and modern structure, planning with the account of last achievements of architecture and use of harmless technologies — all shows it, that the bank of Ethiopia leaves on the international level on all indicators».

The project of head office CBE

German architectural group Henn Architekten has won competition on the best civil-engineering design of head office Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in Addis Ababa.

Unusual way of the organisation

Thin office building will be executed with optical effect of «presence of hollow structures» at change of a point of the review. For the account of such unusual way of organisation of base level of a building, some problems are reached — increased the areas of ground floors illuminated by natural light, interesting appearance of a design is created, is involved additional attention of visitors of the centre which bottom part it is planned to use as a trading complex that will cut expenses on building operation.

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

At ceremony of rewarding of the architects who have presented the project — the winner of the tender, the president of bank has declared, that «the new approach to building and use of the main offices, the interesting and modern structure, planning with the account of last achievements of architecture and use of harmless technologies — all shows it, that the bank of Ethiopia leaves on the international level on all indicators».

My workspace

I have seen some beautiful workspaces in magazines and on some of the blogs I have visited. Unfortunately, mine is not really one of them. I have a tiny space I carved out of our family room that my kids tend to invade for their own use. More often than not, I find myself picking snack wrappers they have left on my little desk and staring at basketball screen-savers on the computer. Yes, it is more of a storage center for my decorating books and magazines and even my intended "inspiration board" is more functional than beautiful...

When I find my space "invaded" I creep into Paul's office to work on the computer and tend to do any design planning at the kitchen table. Perhaps I am just like my kids: playing musical desks and just wanting to be where everyone else is... Oops, gotta go: Paul is kicking me off his computer...guess I'll go kick the kids off mine!!!