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This low-rise building, with four levels and a commercial areas on the ground floor, facing a corner aligned with the urban profile, is a multifamily housing type with shops on the ground floor. The volume of the triangular building is structured in two separate bodies, joined by a central core of staircases and strips of perimeter balconies and awnings, which create free open spaces between them. The stairwell, closed by a curved glass façade, reinforces the transparency and formal freedom of the building’s access areas, located at opposite ends, toward the two avenues that limit the plot and converge on the radial space of the Rodó square or turnabout. This transparency and formal freedom contrasts with the compact and regular volumes that hold the apartments, which become lighter by the presence and rhythm of conventional windows, corner windows, deep balconies and projecting balconies, the latter facing the urban corner, defining and characterizing it. The Atlantic Building is testament to the best modern architecture in Caracas of the time.
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