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ADM Cocoa

A rendered double-height glass lobby: a polished blue-grey tiled floor mirrors a full-height curtain wall of square panels, two white sofas sit on a brown rug at the left beside a water cooler and potted palms, and the entrance doors stand at the centre of the glazed wall under a band of brighter blue spandrels.

A 2009 visualization set for the ADM Cocoa processing works: seven views — four inside a double-height, curtain-walled reception with a curved stair, and three of the pale yellow factory range outside, signed and landscaped. The studio’s own post carries no text at all beyond its title.

There is no brief to quote, because the post has no prose: its address says ten-renderings while its title reads ADM COCOA PROCESSING - ALL SEVEN RENDERINGS, and seven images are published. The listing keeps those seven in the order the studio posted them, which is why the set opens indoors and closes on the reception again.

What the post does not say, the artwork does. The client is signed on the buildings themselves — an ADM Cocoa panel over the glazed entrance and the same mark fixed high on the yellow wall in the wide view — and every frame carries the studio’s the.SEED.v1.0 / 2009 line at the lower left beside the REVIVAL DESIGN + VFX STUDIOS mark and the blog address. That is the same series line that dates the 2010 GOIL station set and the October 2009 wallpaper, so these renders belong to the studio’s first full year of published visualization work.

The interiors are the substance of the commission. A two-storey curtain wall of square panels holds the light over a polished tile floor that mirrors it, a curved stair cantilevers up the wall past a large abstract painting, and a curved glass-fronted reception desk sits under the mezzanine opposite white sofas on brown rugs, with palms and a water cooler the only softening in a very hard-edged room. It is the corporate front of a factory, drawn as though the plant behind it were a headquarters.

Outside, the works is a long low range in cream cladding on a blue plinth, screened with horizontal louvres and closed at one end by a deep green volume. The entrance takes a fabric canopy on slender posts, the approach is paved and parked, and the view from the road stands four bare flagpoles in a planted island on a sloping lawn. Scale figures and cars are placed in every exterior, which is the period convention for a building still in the drawing.

No architect, engineer, town or completion date is stated anywhere in the post or on the frames, so the listing carries Ghana without a city and claims nothing else about the project behind the seven views.

The project is on blogspot.

A rendered double-height glass lobby: a polished blue-grey tiled floor mirrors a full-height curtain wall of square panels, two white sofas sit on a brown rug at the left beside a water cooler and potted palms, and the entrance doors stand at the centre of the glazed wall under a band of brighter blue spandrels.
The same lobby seen from the lounge: a curved cantilevered stair with glass balustrades flies up the right-hand wall past a large green-and-white abstract painting, recessed square ceiling panels carry the downlights, and sun through the curtain wall stripes the polished floor.
Looking down the spiral of that stair into the reception: pale treads and a curved glass balustrade sweep round the frame, a curved glass-fronted reception desk sits at the left, the seating group and its brown rug lie below on a floor crossed by the grid shadow of the glazing, and palms stand at the windows.
The entrance elevation of the works: a pale yellow single-storey factory range with an ADM Cocoa panel over a full-height glazed lobby front and a second sign high on the wall to the right, horizontal louvre screens and blue-tinted glazing, a fabric entrance canopy on slender posts, and three cars on the paved forecourt with a man walking between them.
A wide view of the facility from across the yard: the long low cream production range runs left of a glazed entrance block and a deep green volume at the right end, cars and a single pedestrian sit on the forecourt, and the ADM Cocoa sign is fixed high on the yellow wall under a pale sky.
The building seen from the road across a sloping lawn: a two-storey cream range on a blue plinth with an external stair and louvre screens, the glazed entrance and its canopy to the right of the block, four bare flagpoles raised from a planted island in the grass, and a hedge-lined kerb along the tarmac in the foreground.
The reception from the other end of the lobby: a curved glass-fronted desk stands at the left under the mezzanine, two white sofas face each other on a brown rug against a blank white wall banded with timber, and the full-height curtain wall on the right throws a grid of light and shadow across the polished floor.