I am not very used to create monochrome images, but this archticture is more or less forcing me to try it 
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Good thing about black-n-white is you don’t have to worry about color… 
After grayscaling, I rotated it a bit to make the nearest corner vertical, then an aggressive tone curve that turned out to just be an exposure boost, that is, straight-line, to get some contrast going:
I think it’s a great monochrome subject, and a fun composition.
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I preferred colourful…
More focus on the only open window, “gradient-ed” the sky. Sharpened to the max.
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First pass. My edit is a little cliche, but serviceable as a rough draft. I feel like there is a lot you might be able to do with crops and dodging and burning.
P6200043.ORF.xmp (27.5 KB)
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My edit in DT 5.6. I used color calibration module for monochrome conversion.
P6200043.ORF.xmp (25.0 KB)
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That is more the look that I wanted to achieve… bright sky and many details in the blinds. I did not get that, despite also working with colour calibration. So I will have to invistage your .xmp
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I did an AI mask of the sky and brightened the exposure because I had some strange artefact in the sky. I would have used tone equalizer, color balance rgb and shadow and highlights probably to recover the detail in the shadows.
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This is a nice interpretation. More abstract than whatever I had in mind. I like also the idea of emphasising the only window with open blinds.
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Beautiful!
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I think Rob’s edit isn’t to top. So a completely different (more abstract) approach:
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and a variation of it:
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Leaning heavily on the shoulders of @AtaraxicShrug … 
Could not make up my mind, so 2 versions, cropping is difficult too…
Slight preference for the 2nd attempt.
Nice play!
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and
P6200043_01.ORF.xmp (21.5 KB)
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As you have said on many occasions, its not a competition!
So these two are trying to keep more in line with this idea. But, the first is still really abstract (based on @Popanz idea):
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The second is a color render. Which might be less “dramatic”, but still makes a solid image thanks to the capture:
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@Jetze I really like that first one! In the right print maker’s hands, this could be amazing over gold foil.
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Thanks Rob, though I’ll have to look up what gold foil exactly is…
The other thing is, I had something golden in mind when seeing this picture, hence the yellow color in the second version.
I formulated misleading. Sorry.
I would have usually developed in a similar direction as you did. But I think your edit has so many things in the right place, that I can’t show really new aspects, when I would have gone in that direction. Therefore I chose a completely other route, to show further possibilities. That was, what I wanted to point out.
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Language is too rich for us all - so hard to formulate without risks - specially when not writing in one’s mother language…
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