China Mieville’s novel, The City and The City, is set in the fictional Beszel and Ul Qoma, two separate city states that share the same territory.  To do this, they require an overlapping array of multiplicity - two cafes, two transit systems, two economies, two governments. This repetition plays out on a monumental scale in Copula Hall, the building that houses the government and border checkpoints for both cities. Two large volumes mirror around a central point along the East-West axis - the gateway’s main thoroughfare - to play up the novel’s duality. With one volume for Ul Qoma and its Parliament and the other for Beszel and its City Council, each elevation faces its own city’s entry. International office spaces unite the volumes and belong to neither city, instead addressing the sameness of the two - their equality in their duality.