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10 Hills Place by Amanda Levete Architects
London practice Amanda Levete Architects have completed the facade of an office building off Oxford Street in London.
![Hills Place 4 Hills Place 4](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-4.jpg)
Located at 10 Hills Place, the project consists of four glazed slashes in the aluminium surface, funneling light down into the offices.
![Hills Place 8 Hills Place 8](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-8.jpg)
The architects drew on technology normally used to build ship hulls.
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Photographs are by Gidon Fuehrer.
Here's some more information from Amanda Levete Architects
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Work on 10 Hills Place is now complete.
Amanda Levete Architects has harnessed high quality ship hull technology to create an ingenious sculptural facade for a new office building just off London’s Oxford Street.
![Hills Place 2 Hills Place 2](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-2.jpg)
Lack of daylight in the narrow streets around this major retail artery was a key issue. Inspired by the art work of Lucio Fontana AL_A slashed the aluminium skin with large glazed areas orientated towards the sky to maximise and channel natural light into the office space.
![Hills Place 7 Hills Place 7](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-7.jpg)
The facade is fabricated using curved aluminium profiles assembled on-site. Self cleaning glass and hidden gutters within the eyelids ensure the facade remains low maintenance.
![Hills Place 11 Hills Place 11](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-11.jpg)
The fine faceting of the aluminium strips creates beautiful and complex reflections of sky and street, making the building highly visible from Oxford Street.
![Hills Place 10 Hills Place 10](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-10.jpg)
At ground level a bespoke glass, mesh and dichromatic film sandwich is animated with fibre optics to create visual depth of field and a dynamic moiré pattern on an otherwise blank facade.
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![Hills Place 6 Hills Place 6](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/09/Hills-Place-6.jpg)