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Space Makers

reative Union Network, the boutique firm started in 2012 by husband-and-wife duo Claudia Bader and Timothy Mitanidis, is known for making small spaces seem big. The work is often colourful and quirky, but for the partners architecture isn’t only—or even mainly—about accents or finishes. It’s about having a strategic approach to space. “We refine each layout to its essence,” says Mitanidis, “because an ill-conceived layout can cost a lot of square footage.” How do they make their designs so rigorously efficient?

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