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Challis Penthouse by MI Architects

In 2000 I moved into my first share office with my good friend Jim Osborne, a landscape architect. One day he arrived at work flushed with excitement – he had found an empty roof space for sale and wanted me to be his architect. As a student in the UK, I had been fascinated with colonizing underutilized roof space to bring “living” back into the decaying city centres of 1980s

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