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These sketches made during the schematic design phase in spring 1998 suggests that the adapted Climatroffice configuration will create rentable daylit retail space below plaza level. Foster + Partners, 1004 Swiss Re House, 14 May 1998, 1998. Courtesy of Foster + Partners.

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