Category: Commercial
MVRDV has printed a full farmhouse in Schijndel, a medieval village in the southern Netherlands and the hometown of MVRDV co-founder Winy Mass. Or at least left the skin of the town centres' glass façade in the hands of a well-equipped fritting machine before wrapping the whole body in printed glass with motives from the best of the average from local history.
True to the core product of Italcementi, the new headquarter is a powerful showcasing of various possibilities of concrete. The refined roughness of the concrete, the strong and yet transparent expression and the overall simple aesthetic of the building is an elegant architectural stroke.
An artistic anchor in a burgeoning section of Hollywood while signaling an eastward shift in the cultural center of Los Angeles.
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BIG + Topotek1 + Superflex
SANAA
By Torsten Bløndal (Editor)
