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Update: Developer moves forward with The Cloud / MVRDV

Despite the controversy, the South Korean developer plans to move forward with MVRDV‘s design of The Cloud. The Dutch firm has received harsh criticism after releasing their design for the two residential towers that will be built in Seoul’s redeveloped Yongsan business district...
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Master Plan for Bastide Niel / MVRDV

The Urban Community of Bordeaux (CUB) and MVRDV recently presented the master plan for Bastide Niel, a 35ha extension of Bordeaux’ city center onto the right bank of Garonne River. The dense urban master plan will offer 3200 homes,…
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2011 review: December

Concluding our review of 2011, here are the five most popular stories from December. Up first are two skyscrapers by MVRDV for Seoul that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. These renders kicked up a lot of controversy, as reported on Dezeen Wire. (more…
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Tracking the Origins of MVRDV’s Cloud

Urban design historian Grahame Shane weighs in on the controversial project tracing MVRDV’s explosive imagery to its source in research. When Ole Scheeren departed from OMA Beijing with the MahaNakhon Bangkok tower to found his own office in 2010, he had the idea to connect tower and urban vill...
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“Exploding” twin towers by MVRDV cause outrage

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV have received threatening emails and angry phone calls after revealing proposals for skyscrapers that resemble the exploding World Trade Centre on 9/11. We published the project first on Dezeen, prompting outrage from many of our readers. One declared the image...
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MVRDV Unveils Plans for Zero Energy ‘Bastide Niel’ City Dist

MVRDV Architects and the Urban Community of Bordeaux (CUB) have joined forces to design a brand new eco-community called Bastide Niel on the banks of the Garonne River. Spanning nearly 86 acres of industrial land and overrun parks (that’s about 144 city blocks), the new zero energy city dis...
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MVRDV Responds to Cloud Tower Imagery

It must have been a rough day at MVRDV’s Rotterdam offices after their newly unveiled Cloud tower set to be built in Seoul, South Korea went viral in a bad way. MVRDV envisioned two towers shrouded in pixelated mist, but others saw the image of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New ...
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Controversy over The Cloud forces MVRDV to Apologize

Dutch firm MVRDV has received harsh criticism since they revealed the proposal for two luxury residential towers in South Korea, named after its inspiration, The Cloud. The two towers are connected by a “pixilated cloud of additional program.” Critics…
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MVRDV Apologizes for “Cloud” Skyscrapers that Resemble Explo

Last week MVRDV unveiled plans for “The Cloud” – two luxury condo towers in Seoul, South Korea joined by a pixelated “cloud” of protruding sections that bloom from the middle. Much to the surprise of MVRDV, the design has set off a media frenzy with hundreds of peopl...
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Apology: MVRDV regrets 9/11 lookalike towers

MVRDV has apologised over its The Cloud project in Seoul, Korea which has been criticised for looking like New York’s 9/11 Twin Towers tragedy
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The Cloud: Two Connected Luxury Residential Towers / MVRDV

The Cloud: Two Connected Luxury Residential Towers by MVRDVis a residential development of the Yongsan Business district. A 260 meter tall tower and a 300 meter tall tower are connected in the center by a pixelated cloud of additional…
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Unveiled> Seoul Cloud by MVRDV

Seoul’s Yongsan International Business District, a new district designed to lift the city’s architectural appeal as an international business destination, is filled with wild promises: the world’s second tallest tower (‘Dream Tower’ to be completed by 2016, the Libesk...
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This week on Dezeen

This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre’s destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. Artist Olafur Elias...
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The Cloud: MVRDV’s Luxury Twin Towers Are Joined by a Funky

Read the rest of The Cloud: MVRDV’s Luxury Twin Towers Are Joined by a Funky Pixelated Cluster in Seoul Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 'sustainable architecture', eco design, eco skyscraper, eco tower, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof,...
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The Cloud by MVRDV

Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. (more…
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Flowerbed Hotel / MVRDV

The 19.500m2 Flowerbed Hotel and conference center, designed by MVRDV, will be devoted entirely to flowers and will be located next to the future Bloomin’ Holland theme park and business center. The hotel with include 280 rooms along with…
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This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen Thomas Heatherwick designed an interior for an abbey with curving walnut and ash choir stalls and Dutch architects MVRDV unveiled proposals for a hotel covered in flowers inside a giant greenhouse. The Campana brothers wrapped a furniture showroom with faceted aluminium plant ...
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Flowerbed Hotel by MVRDV

Architects MVRDV have unveiled proposals for a giant greenhouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam with a flower-covered hotel inside. (more…
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MVRDV’s Stunning Flowerbed Hotel is a Giant Greenhouse!

Inhabitat favorite, MVRDV, just announced a design for a new hotel dedicated to flowers. A collaboration with Kloos2, the Aalsmeer, Netherlands hotel will sit adjacent to the Bloomin’ Holland theme park, which will be constructed in the near future. The innovative Flowerbed Hotel will feature 2...
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