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Amalbank HQ Reception

An interior visualization of a bank reception seen down its length. A curved white counter with dark fluting down its front stands at the centre with a receptionist seated behind it in a red-brown chair, and a woman in black walks away from the camera along a grey carpet striped in pale lines. Full-height glazing in white mullions runs the whole left wall, with traffic and green planting visible outside, and a palm grows from a square planter at the near left. The ceiling is a white grid set with round downlights, a piece of bright figurative artwork hangs at the far end, and a black band along the foot of the frame carries the.SEED.v1.0 over the year 2009 at the left and revivalgh.blogspot.com above the REVIVAL DESIGN+VFX STUDIOS mark at the right.

Two interior visualizations of a bank headquarters reception, published on 29 May 2009 with no accompanying text at all. The post is nothing but its title and the two renders, so this listing records what the frames show and stops there: no designer, no software, no city, and no claim that the reception was ever built.

The post exists to show two pictures. It was filed as “AMALBANK HQ RECEPTION” on 29 May 2009, revised four days later, carries no labels, and its body holds no words at all — the whole entry is the title and the two images. Everything here therefore comes from those two frames, and nothing has been supplied to make the entry read better.

They are one long room seen from both ends. The reception view takes in a curved white counter with dark fluting down its front, a receptionist seated behind it in a red-brown chair, a woman in black walking away down a grey carpet striped in pale lines, a palm in a square planter at the near left, and a full height of glazing in white mullions along the whole left wall with traffic and planting outside it. The reverse view runs down the lounge end: white sofas and a low table, a man in a white shirt and tie seated nearest the camera, two women walking towards it, a second palm, and a band of green floor at the right edge. Both are lit by a white grid ceiling set with round downlights, and a bright figurative artwork closes the far end of the corridor.

Both frames are printed with the same black band: the.SEED.v1.0 over a hairline rule with the year 2009 under it at the left, and revivalgh.blogspot.com above the maroon rounded mark and the stacked REVIVAL DESIGN+VFX STUDIOS wordmark at the right. That is the studio’s own dating evidence and it agrees with the post. The mark runs through this period of the archive — the.SEED.v1.0 wallpaper, Out of Darkness and The Brightest Idea, the House Dominic render of the same spring, the GOIL frames at 1.1, and the footer of the studio’s own homepage.

This is not the same commission as ABL Reception, and the two are easy to confuse. That job is dated 2017 and its client is ABL, Accra Brewery Limited — a brewery, not a bank. The frames here are proved to be different drawings as well as different buildings: both plates were hashed against the ABL plates and the rest of the early archive before this page was written.

What the post does not say is left unsaid. No designer is credited, so there is no Team row — although the studio’s other bank interior, CAL Bank Interiors, names its designer and separates the design credit from the visualization credit, and its posts name their tools, this one says neither. There is no Software row for the same reason. No city appears anywhere in the entry, and the street seen through the glazing was enlarged and checked for signage and holds none, so the location is recorded as Ghana, the studio’s own country, rather than guessed at. And nothing states that the reception was ever built: the archive holds the visualization.

The source post is on blogspot — AMALBANK HQ RECEPTION, 29 May 2009.

An interior visualization of a bank reception seen down its length. A curved white counter with dark fluting down its front stands at the centre with a receptionist seated behind it in a red-brown chair, and a woman in black walks away from the camera along a grey carpet striped in pale lines. Full-height glazing in white mullions runs the whole left wall, with traffic and green planting visible outside, and a palm grows from a square planter at the near left. The ceiling is a white grid set with round downlights, a piece of bright figurative artwork hangs at the far end, and a black band along the foot of the frame carries the.SEED.v1.0 over the year 2009 at the left and revivalgh.blogspot.com above the REVIVAL DESIGN+VFX STUDIOS mark at the right.
The same lobby from the opposite end, looking back down the lounge side. White sofas and a low table line the right of the striped carpet, a man in a white shirt and tie sits at the near right, two women walk towards the camera along the length of the room with a patterned white dress on the nearer of the two, a second palm stands in a square planter against the glazed wall, and a band of green floor appears at the right edge. The white grid ceiling and the black signature band with the.SEED.v1.0, 2009 and the studio wordmark are the same as the reception view.