架构师提供的文本描述。这不是普通的办公楼。它是邓迪市议会总部，是邓迪市公民会见其议会官员的主要地点。除了控制市政厅的空间需求外，这座建筑还可以发挥重要的公民作用，重新利用和振兴一座受保护的废弃工业建筑，这座建筑位于城市的一个略被遗忘的地方，新建筑已经开始了振兴这一地区的进程。

Text description provided by the architects. This is not an ordinary office building. It is Dundee City Councils headquarters and is the primary location where the citizens of Dundee will meet their council officers. As well as containing the councils spatial needs the building has an important civic role to play re-using and reinvigorating a protected derelict industrial building, which is located in a slightly forgotten part of the city the new building has begun the process of revitalising this area.

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该大厦的功能是提供区域市政局的办公室服务。该大楼将有大约900名工作人员，建筑面积为12 500平方米。该简报的一个组成部分是促进部门间的互动，因此所有公共设施都设在部门之外。

The function of the building is to enable the provision of the council’s office services. The building will contain approximately 900 staff and has a floor area of 12,500 sqm. A component of the brief is to stimulate departmental interactions, so all communal facilities are co-located outside the departments.

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考虑到这些建议的公民性质，职能要求成为外部表述的依据。历史建筑被保留了下来。新办公室位于西面，高耸在三座塔上，向市政厅发出信号，新旧两座大楼之间有一个直线核心，与现有的线形场地重点一起工作，并为大型楼板提供直观的导航功能。现有的建筑被重新盖上了当代阁楼的屋顶。

The functional requirements, when considered with the civic nature of the proposals informed the external expression. The historic building is retained. The new offices are placed to the west, rising above their neighbours in three towers, signalling the Council to the city, a linear core is placed between the old and new, working with the existing linear site emphasis and providing intuitive navigation of the large floor plates. The existing building is re-roofed with a contemporary attic.

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该建筑采用高度可持续的原则，自然通风和暴露的热质量，并被BREEAM评为优秀。

The building adopts highly sustainable principles with natural ventilation and exposed thermal mass and was BREEAM assessed as excellent.

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