The egg-shaped multipurpose room accommodates up to 162 in flexible layouts, while the largest upstairs area seats 40.

It includes studio and one-, two- and three-bedroom units that feature a combination of traditional floor plans as well as two-story lofts with flexible layouts.

Columbus Haus' central location, the car park in the rear, and the flexible layout also facilitated secret uses.

All platforms are signalled for trains in either direction and the flexible layout means that trains on any route can use any part of the station.

"What makes this work is the layout: open and flexible with tight security," said Mr. Rowe, whose company now has 50 employees.

This allowed more flexible layouts and opened up more sites for development.

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"And there were many other ways that we designed as much adaptability as possible into the building because we knew that flexible layout is important to large space users."

Unique to the Thames, Scandinavian-designed Harmony features flexible layout for dining, private dining spaces and the largest open deck of over 250 square metres.

Design Freedom - flexible layout easily adapts to irregular & curved plan layouts.