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SHOPPING MALL and offices proposal in Kiev, Ukraine.

Updated: May 14, 2019


Proposal for a shopping mall and offices in Kiev, Ukraine.


It is good if a client insists that his architect employs the golden ratio when designing a new project. It is interesting to utilise and exciting to pay attention to the overall design, whether the ratio is applied in plan or elevation.


Many of the old ‘monuments’ of architecture, including the Parthenon, the Pyramids at Giza, the Taj Mahal, the Notre Dame and many more have used the ratio.


Long Section through the mall showing elevation of the center facing facade

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult to produce and the good easy.” Albert Einstein


FUN FACT ABOUT TO THINK ABOUT THE GOLDEN RATIO:


Let's try to link the golden ratio to our everyday lives;

According to psychologist Adrian Bejan, "that spatial arrangement of human eyes allows us to perceive, and therefore understand, stimuli that has the proportion of the golden ratio."

Ever wondered why the iPad displays are 3:2 ? Or that HDTV displays are 16:9?

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