Glass Bricks Stronger Than Concrete Replace The Facade Of Chanel Boutique
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You might have never thought about it before, but store owners who decide to open their businesses in historic city's districts, usually face a problem of combining store's functionality with the traditional architecture of the building. But a Chanel boutique in Amsterdam has made no compromises when they turned the facade of the building into a see-through glass-brick wall.
You might have never thought about it before, but store owners who decide to open their businesses in historic city's districts, usually face a problem of combining store's functionality with the traditional architecture of the building. But a Chanel boutique in Amsterdam has made no compromises when they turned the facade of the building into a see-through glass-brick wall.
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