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What are some shapes that you can find right outside your door? Once you see the shapes hidden in any building’s design, you can start to see how the architect who designed it manipulated these shapes, along with other things like size, texture, proportion, scale, mass and color to not only make a building do what it needs to do but also be really fun to look at.

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