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MVRDV’s Shenzhen Guosen Tower Is A Giant Energy Efficient Chinese Lantern

MVRDV’s Shenzhen Guosen Tower Is A Giant Energy Efficient Chinese Lantern

The volume of the tower has a square floor plan with an elegant, slender volume that allows daylight to reach into the building to provide a more pleasurable working environment for employees. So that

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Construction Commences on MVRDV’s Massive Amanora Vertical City Apartments in India

Construction Commences on MVRDV’s Massive Amanora Vertical City Apartments in India

Construction has just broken ground on Phase 1 of MVRDV's Amanora Apartment City - Future Towers in Pune, India. Developed by City Corporation - a leading real estate development corporation in the Indian

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MVRDV Unveils Le Monolithe Urban Superblock in Lyon

MVRDV Unveils Le Monolithe Urban Superblock in Lyon

MVRDV won the chance to design the masterplan for the project back in 2004 and brought on the four other architects to design the four other sections of the urban superblock. A large interior court with a

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Luxury Resort Disguised as a Giant Mountain of Lush Green

Luxury Resort Disguised as a Giant Mountain of Lush Green

We love the way buildings look (c'mon, we're an architecture and design website), but sometimes the natural landscape is just too lovely to spoil by plopping a giant skyscraper onto it. Taking that into

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Long Tan Park: Cascades of Box Homes Covering the Mountains of China

Long Tan Park: Cascades of Box Homes Covering the Mountains of China

When dutch architecture firm MVRDV started conceiving their plan for 2,700 new houses in Liuzhou, China, one of their primary goals was to protect the city's precious limestone mountains from further

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MVRDV Unveils Mesmerizing Water Cube Pavilion for 2012 World Expo

MVRDV Unveils Mesmerizing Water Cube Pavilion for 2012 World Expo

The 2010 Shanghai World Expo hasn't even begun yet but we're already starting to see designs roll in for the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, Korea! MVRDV just released plans for their own mesmerizing Water Cube

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Construction Begins on Amazing Tunnel-Shaped Rotterdam Market Hall

Construction Begins on Amazing Tunnel-Shaped Rotterdam Market Hall

Imagine having this sweet public market pop up in your town? Well the lucky residents of Rotterdam are actually getting one! This week, the mayor of the city announced the commencement of construction on

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MVRDV’s Stackable Sky Village High Rise

MVRDV’s Stackable Sky Village High Rise

MVRDV and ADEPT Architects are the masterminds behind this incredible Sky Village high rise. Designed as an acropolis of stackable green-roofed units, the structure recently won a competition to construct

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Spain’s Carbon-Neutral Ecotopia Gets the Green Light

Spain’s Carbon-Neutral Ecotopia Gets the Green Light

While Rioja is a name that is normally associated with red or white, the autonomous Spanish province will soon be just as synonymous with green - building green, that is. This week the local government

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MVRDV’s PIG CITY

MVRDV’s PIG CITY

Being a vegetarian, it is a little hard for me to smile on a design proposal about pig farming. Nevertheless, I was totally taken with Dutch architecture group MVRDV‘s clever (and I think

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NEWER ORLEANS

NEWER ORLEANS

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last fall, well-meaning architects, designers and planners the world over have been scrambling to submit proposals for rebuilding New Orleans. Surprisingly,

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