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EAST ELEVATION
Building Design Principals Designed by Nsika Architects , the design team behind all the commercial buildings in Irene Link , this building bookends the highway-facing commercial portion of the precinct and therefore needed to be similar to the other buildings but striking in its own right . Building E returns to the rectilinear architecture already present . This rectilinear design makes a striking juxtaposed statement compared to the adjacent Building D which is organic and curvilinear in form .
Three and a half of the four naturally ventilated parking ramps were raised above the ground to give the building ( which is smaller than D ) a similar height when read alongside Buildings C and D . To decrease the harshness and the function of the parking ramps above ground Nsika placed tapering planter boxes and angled
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