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HEUVEL SHOPPING CENTRE, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS MVRDV
MVRDV has developed a proposal to “radically transform Eindhoven's Heuvel shopping centre into a green cultural quarter.” The architects said the “quarter” will house shopping, culture, and recreation, with existing buildings “expanded and broken open” so that they better connect with the surrounding public spaces and cultural buildings of the city centre. Above the existing Muziekgebouw concert hall will be a stacked cultural building, under a “glass mountain,” said MVRDV, which visitors will be able to climb. “This will be an eye-catching landmark, and makes the quarter an important contribution to the densification and greening of central Eindhoven.” It also creates additional space for the concert venue, allowing it to adopt a broader programme. The ambition is to turn the concert hall into “a living room for the city during the day” and to draw greater numbers of Eindhoven residents.
GOTHENBURG UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, SWEDEN – COBE
THE ARK, MANHATTAN 3DELUXE
3deluxe has designed a corporate building with a natural ‘biotope’(an area offering uniform environmental conditions for a specific range of flora and fauna) in Manhattan. The idea behind the building follows 3deluxe's ‘50/50 principle’ which states that “50% of every building project should be reserved for nature,” in this case a biotope on the roof that occupies the same surface area as the interior used by people. The building's simple “steep slope” shape has glazed facades, “not only to maintain a pleasant indoor ambience, but also to integrate as large a sensor-driven area as possible for intelligent technologies for energy recovery and consumption reduction,” said the architects. The rooftop biotope will become a “semi-public space, one that includes its surroundings,” said 3deluxe. The biotope will extend the overall living space, not only for people but also for birds, insects, as well as a variety of plants. At the same time, it will store rainwater and humidify the surroundings on hot days, absorb particulates, transform carbon dioxide into oxygen, and improve air quality. The roof garden will insulate the building's interior against the cold and heat, as well as cutting its energy consumption. “The building will be like a living organism and positively influence its surroundings in many ways,” said 3deluxe.
Danish architecture firm Cobe has won the prestigious international competition for a new university library in the heart of Sweden’s second- largest city, Gothenburg. The new 16,000 m2 university library will be located in the university area of Näckrosen, near to many of the city’s cultural institutions and to the Faculties of Humanities and The Fine, Applied and Performing Arts. Cobe’s winning design uses books as the “source of inspiration and point of departure” for the design. “Both the lightness and the gravity of a book is reflected in the subtle curvature of the building’s volume and the vertical lines of its facade – much like the pages of a book just being opened,” said the firm. The volume rests on an open and transparent ground floor with expansive floor-to-ceiling windows. The designers’ ambition is to allow the building to blend in with the surrounding park.
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