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 Breaking Barriers   Business,Communication,Construction Mimari Studio helps world’s leading chemical company BASF reposition from a vertical multi-storey typology to a horizontal architectural approach, spewing new-age thinking… The universal principle of ‘old must make way for new’… is well expressed by designers of the Mimari Studio as they reassert this with ample evidence through their design of BASF’s 5500sq.m. multi-level office premises in Istanbul, Turkey. Veering away from the old, introverted, conventional office space, the open-plan horizontal architecture aims at transforming work habits and work place culture to co-relate with its new interactive environment. With a basic concept of different elements complementing each other in a holistic shell to promoting products manufactured by the company, the designers have worked in collaboration with experts from all disciplines like walls, ceiling, flooring, lighting, acoustics, landscape and graphics for the ultimate s...