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B. E. Architecture

To imbue new architecture with the graceful qualities associated with age and history is a common ambition among architects, though perhaps more often espoused than attained. Aspiring to a timeless sense of permanence and solidity is laudable, if it avoids the obvious pitfall of historical pastiche, but actually achieving this requires both strategy and technique.

B. E. Architecture has put more than twenty years into this pursuit across a range of project types, focusing primarily on housing. The firm has amply demonstrated, through its diverse portfolio, that there is both a science and an art to

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