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Quay Quarter Tower

he AMP Centre, a skyscraper built in 1976 in Sydney, Australia, posed a problem for urbanists: It was too good to tear down but not good enough to keep. Lasse Lind, a partner at the Copenhagen firm 3XN/GXN, describes it as “a machine for people to sit in.” The tower, he explains, “was able to accommodate a lot

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