The Cloud: 2 luxury residential towers in Seoul, Korea by Architects MVRDV
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| The Cloud at Yongsan Dreamhub, Seoul, South Korea |
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| The Cloud is located at the entrance to the Dreamhub masterplan |
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| The interior of the Sky lounge |
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MVRDV was set up in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A research based and highly collaborative design method engages experts from all fields, clients and stakeholders in the creative process. The results are exemplary and outspoken buildings, urban plans, studies and objects, which enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.
Early projects such as the headquarters for the Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO and housing for elderly WoZoCo in Amsterdam lead to international acclaim.
MVRDV develops its work in a conceptual way, the changing condition is visualised and discussed through designs, sometimes literally through the design and construction of a diagram. The office continues to pursue its fascination and methodical research on density using a method of shaping space through complex amounts of data that accompany contemporary building and design processes.
MVRDV first published a cross section of these study results in FARMAX (1998), followed by a.o. MetaCity/Datatown (1999), Costa Iberica (2000), Regionmaker (2002), 5 Minutes City (2003), KM3 (2005), and more recently Spacefighter (2007) and Skycar City (2007). MVRDV deals with global ecological issues in large scale studies such as Pig City as well as in small pragmatic solutions for devastated areas of New Orleans.
Current projects include various housing projects in the Netherlands, Spain, China, France, the United Kingdom, USA, India, Korea and other countries, a bank headquarter in Oslo, Norway, a public library for Spijkenisse, Netherlands, a central market hall for Rotterdam, a culture plaza in Nanjing, China, the China Cartoon and Animation Museum in Hangzhou, the ROCKmagneten museum in Roskilde, Denmark, large scale urban plans include a plan for an eco-city in Logroño, Spain, an urban vision for the doubling in size of Almere, Netherlands and Grand Paris, the vision of a post-Kyoto Greater Paris region.
The work of MVRDV is exhibited and published world wide and receives international awards. The 70 architects, designers and staff members conceive projects in a multi-disciplinary collaborative design process and apply highest technological and sustainable standards.
Together with Delft University of Technology MVRDV runs The Why Factory, an independent think tank and research institute providing argument for architecture and urbanism by envisioning the city of the future.
For information please contact public relations at MVRDV, Jan Knikker / Isabel Pagel +31 10 477 2860 +31 10 477 2860 or pr@mvrdv.nl – www.mvrdv.nl
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The Koreans are free to build whatever kind of building they want. The Dutch are free to design any building they want. But you are being pretty self-centered if you can't see why this might upset people.
The reality is we live in a very connected world, and New York City has approx 8 million citizens - so when a building that evokes 9/11 debuts on the web, you are going to hear a lot of opinions about it. It was a life-changing/generation-changing/foreign policy-changing event for millions of people. Time has passed, but for many people the wound will always be raw. (Try being in lower Manhattan sometime when a jet flies low and loud - people still get quiet and scared.)
if these go up i will become a terrorist and fly a plane into them.
perhaps we start a chain of one disaster involving a replica of a disaster after another, a sort of post-postmodern performance piece?
There will be more expressions of pseudo-outrage and name calling when they get a load of my comments. As you read them keep in mind they are guilty of everything they accuse everyone else of. Full of missquotes, misspelling, revenge, and accusations of cowardice but notice they also post as anonymous - or in the most ridiculous made-up names imaginable! Bless ttheir hearts..
Rich. Keep the brilliance coming!
I think it's great! Architecture is moving towards these 'sky villages' and eventually 'sky cities' and this is a brilliant step forward.
For someone to suggest that the architect was being controversial is to demonstrate their own naivety. There is no reason to think that the architect was trying to be offensive. Grow up.
I mean common, we've been helping support the South Koreans for how long now? Seriously....
Oh, and to all the anti-Americans who've obviously never been to NYC. It's an international Mecca.
3,000 people died that day from over 90 countries. This is disrespectful to way more than just Americans.
It would be like Canada building a structure that suspiciously looks like the A-bomb and calling it "The Nagasaki"
But hey, that was a long time ago.