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  2. Bureau de change - Wikipedia

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    A bureau de change in Waterlooville, England. A bureau de change is a business which, in competition with other similar businesses, makes its profit by buying foreign currency and then selling the same currency at a higher exchange rate. It may also charge commission or fee on the purchase or sale.

  3. BDP Quadrangle - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, Michelle Xuereb, Director of Innovation, held a TED Talk on how architecture can help fight climate change at the 2019 TEDxToronto event held at the Evergreen Brickworks. [12] In the same year, Quadrangle signed the Canadian Architectural Professionals Declare Planetary Health Emergency and Commit to Urgent and Sustained Action , a ...

  4. Temple du Change - Wikipedia

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    The first Loge du Change was a small classical building with four arches in front and two on each side. It soon became insufficient for Lyon's money exchange, but was not renovated before 1748. Soufflot provided plans and elevations for its repair, performed by Jean-Baptiste Roche, an architect he had himself introduced.

  5. International Style - Wikipedia

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    The term "International Style" was first used in 1932 by the historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson to describe a movement among European architects in the 1920s that was distinguished by three key design principles: (1) "Architecture as volume – thin planes or surfaces create the building’s form, as opposed to a solid mass"; (2) "Regularity in the facade, as ...

  6. Money changer - Wikipedia

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    Money changers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. A money changer is a person or organization whose business is the exchange of coins or currency of one country for that of another. [1] ...

  7. Eduard Cuypers - Wikipedia

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    The office of Eduard Cuypers is considered to be the origin of the Amsterdam School because the leaders of this style, Michel de Klerk, Johan van der Mey, and Piet Kramer, were trained there. Berend Tobia Boeyinga , one of the most important followers of the Amsterdam school, also worked for Cuypers, as did prominent Indonesian architect Liem ...

  8. Hans Hollein - Wikipedia

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    Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer [1] and key figure of postmodern architecture. [2] Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna .

  9. Charles Vandenhove - Wikipedia

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    Geert Bekaert and others: Charles Vandenhove : art and architecture. Renaissance du Livre, Tournai 1998, ISBN 2-8046-0012-2; Geert Bekaert: Charles Vandenhove, 1985-1995. NAI Uitg., Rotterdam 1994, ISBN 90-72469-72-0; Pierre Mardaga: Charles Vandenhove: Une architecture de la densité. Liège 1985, ISBN 2-87009-231-8