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Sunny buildings, sunny personalities – that’s how I think of Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning. While deeply committed to high-quality design – crisp, humane, modern housing, houses, libraries and museums that typically come with a swoosh of colour or a material flourish – they always deliver it with sense of humour intact. I think of the time I interviewed Hank about the rainwater cistern they incorporated, Australian-style, into the Pico Branch Library in Santa Monica. He

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