Yesterday was the inauguration of the renovated Gymnasium Beekvliet (where Winy Maas and our co-architect Theobert van Boven were once students!)
The building now features a panoramic work by visual artist Ian Kirkpatrick telling the stories of former pupils.
The colours also reinforce the building's purpose as a space for children, which can be seen clearly in the lobby; here, a structure of nine “rooms” forms a playground-like space for children with various activities... not to mention providing for some very "aesthetic" photos 😜
Over the weekend, Taipower broke ground on our "manifesto in a building" Sun Rock. With its skin of solar panels, the operations centre will generate 1.2 million kWh of clean energy per year to be completely self-sufficient. Read all about it here! mvrdv.com/news/4428/sun-rock…
Last week was the official opening of The Canyon in San Francisco, and residents are now moving in to occupy the 283 apartments (including 102 that are rented below market rate ❤️)
Read all about it here! mvrdv.com/news/4417/the-cany…
Help us choose our next book cover! 📙
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Architizer invites you to help us decide which project will grace the front of our annual book. Cast your vote by Tuesday, June 27th at Midnight PT: arc.ht/46b0YzP
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Construction has started on the Chengdu Jiaozi Courtyard Towers, comprising three office towers and a conference centre atop a ring-shaped plinth... and a retail village that reconstructs the traditional structures once located on the site!
The building also considers sustainability from every possible angle. It is designed to be demountable, so that components can be reused elsewhere later. The platform Madaster provides a material passport for over 120,000 individual components, and 90% of materials can be reused.