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Architectural and geometric undertones drive all three projects this week, with work from Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, and Bogotá. El Colmo by Estudio Nuar El Colmo is a sandwich shop (and bakery) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, headed by renowned chef Ariel Rodriguez Palacios, where they marry haute cuisine with the venerable sandwich format. The identity, designed by local firm Estudio Nuar, is aesthetically informed by the lovely Art Deco interiors of the restaurant itself and conceptually by the origins of the sandwich, which is credited to John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich in eighteenth-century England, who was an avid gambler and in order to keep playing cards while enjoying his meats and cheeses he ordered to have them put between bread so his fingers would stay clean. Hence, the