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Biophilic Design Is Part Of The New Normal (And We’re Not Just Talking Office Plants)

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Biophilic design aims to improve our wellbeing by strengthening our connection to nature in manufactured environments such as hotels, retail spaces and offices. In pre-industrial times, our lives were way more aligned with nature’s rhythms and cycles. Daylight had a larger impact on our sleep patterns too.

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Alex Cochrane Architects designs shops to "embrace the elegant proportions" of National Portrait Gallery

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Alex Cochrane Architects overhauled the National Portrait Gallery's shops Alex Cochrane Architects worked closely with the lead studios to create a main shop next to the museum's new entrance, and two further shops that service temporary exhibition spaces, that each "brought together the monumental and the intimate".

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