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Hysan Place, Hong Kong designed by KPF

Shoppers can also take skip-stop elevators, or express, skip-stop escalators superimposed on the front façade of the building, à la the Pompidou Center in Paris. -- ARCHITECT Magazine

Source: Klaas Verdru archdaily.com

ARhus Knowledge Center, Roeselare, Belgium, 2014 designed by BURO II & ARCHI+I

The site will become a new multifunctional inner-city area with private and public functions including everything from housing, homes for senior citizens, shops, offices and exhibition areas to a knowledge centre with a library. The knowledge centre is going to be an open house, a public information forum and meeting place for people of all ages. -- ArchDaily

Mathieu Gafsou archdaily.com

Rovereaz Housing, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014 designed by LOCALARCHITECTURE

On the street side, facing north, the building reveals a relatively closed facade, with a verticality enhanced by the undulations of the facade material. A slight fold interrupts the facade’s rhythm and underlines the bending towards Rovereaz Road. The glazed staircase leading to the apartments partitions freely the volume of the building. -- ArchDaily

Source: James Ewing archdaily.com

The New School University Center, 65 5th Avenue, New York City, New York, USA, 2014 designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Connections between classrooms, studios, library, cafés, auditorium, and student residences take the form of stacked staircases and “sky quads” that facilitate the chance encounters vital to the cultivation of discussion and debate at The New School. -- ArchDaily

Source: Julien Lanoo archdaily.com

INTECS SPA Headquarters, Rome, Italy, 2014 designed by Modostudio + Studio Cattinari

The building is composed of a series of floors, linked through connections clearly readable on the exterior facade. These connections create stairs, terraces or slopes, hosting conference rooms or outdoor auditorium, providing a functional layout extremely varied and flexible. -- ArchDaily

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Believe in Better Building, Osterley, Isleworth, Isleworth, Greater London TW7, UK, 2014 designed by Arup Associates

The first multi-storey timber commercial office in the UK, it demonstrates the use of offsite prefabrication and timber construction to achieve a unique workplace in half the normal time-frame. 

An open staircase rises through the triple height atrium to the rooftop terrace and restaurant. At first and second floors the stair width is increased to incorporate breakout spaces, providing not only circulation, and visual communication across the floors and out to the plaza, but creates a social and interactive focus to the building. -- ArchDaily