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(W)Ego House: Tetris-Like Hotel Reveals Clashing Dreams of City Residents

  One person’s ego-centric vision of how cities should adapt to their own particular individual needs encroaches upon the dreams of another, as revealed by MVRDV’s Tetris-like open-walled ...

Ugly Architecture: 15 of the World’s Most Hideous Buildings

Some buildings are so ugly, the only thing that could possibly improve them is a wrecking ball. It's even worse when the structures are high-profile and expensive, making you wonder how many ...

Jenga-Like Twisting Tower Won’t Leave Neighbors in the Shade

In order to get around strict city zoning regulations that forbid new structures from putting neighbors in the shade for more than two hours a day, architecture firm MVRDV devised a tower that ...

Brick Farmhouse Facade Illusion via Photo-Printed Glass

For decades, no one could quite agree on what should go in this critical location between the town hall and central church in war-damaged Schijndel, Holland ... until MVDRV showed up with a ...

Plant Paradise: Artificial Pavilion Extends Dutch City into Lake

In a bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022, the Dutch city of Almere has commissioned MVRDV to design an artificial pavilion that would extend the city out into a lake. The concept ...

Korean Twin Towers Fail to ‘Cloud’ Memories of 9/11

Korean Twin Towers FAIL? It would definitely appear so, though Dutch architects MVRDV strenuously deny any connection, inspirational or otherwise, with New York City's lost World Trade Center ...

Alphabet Building Spells Out New Approach to Creative Offices

No, that's not a school building, though local schoolchildren will undoubtedly gaze at the facade and think about their ABCs (and perhaps get confused, realizing that a few letters are missing.) ...

Balloon-Like Comic and Animation Museum Coming to China

A cluster of organic shapes that look almost biological in nature, these bold white volumes will soon be the home of a new Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, China. Dutch design firm MVRDV ...

Iconographic Architecture: The Unique Style of MVRDV

MVRDV has a vision for the future – not just for architecture, but for urban life. "The desire, if not the obsession, if not the necessity, is to make cities more suburbanized," principal ...

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