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German architect 3deluxe鈥檚 first permanent building is ambitious and striking. Designed for Glaskoch, the Leonardo Glass Cube in Bad Driberg, Westphalia, combines architecture, interior design, graphic design and landscape in a single structure.

But it is not all form and no function. Among other elements, the building has an exhibition space for the Leonardo range of elegant glass bowls and vases, as well as work areas and meeting rooms. 3deluxe鈥檚 solution to all of these is aesthetically impressive and practical.

Externally, the 拢6m building is rectangular and has subtle translucent images printed onto the glass. These include photographs of the surroundings and images of the interior.

Branch-like tendrils of moulded plastic and steel, described by 3deluxe as 鈥済enetic architecture鈥�, emerge from the building and metamorphose into snaking white concrete paths leading away from it.

These dendritic forms continue inside, where the 鈥渓andscape as building, building as landscape鈥� dynamic remains, but morphed into totally freeform organic shapes. A wall like a rolling wave encloses the central exhibition area and forms niches for meeting rooms and the reception area. Every surface is the same cool white, on to which colour is introduced by programmable lighting.

If this is what 3deluxe can do for a first project, we鈥檙e looking forward to the second.