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HE first images of The Black & White Building, central London’s tallest mass timber office building, have been released. And, if construction stays on track, the 17.8m(58ft)-high, 38,315sq ft development will open as a 506-desk co-working space in Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2. The developer, The Office Group, has used a mixture of cross-laminated timber and laminate veneer lumber—both high-performance renewable, recyclable and durable materials—and claim that construction using

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