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MVRDV Unveils WärtZ Masterplan in the Netherlands: Transforming a Former Business Park into an Innovation Hub

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© AM, LOLA, MVRDV, Orange, Vivid Vision MVRDV has just announced the WärtZ masterplan, that repurposes a former business park near the railway station into a dynamic innovation hub.

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Rising Waters: 8 Innovative Designs in Flood-Prone Regions

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As part of the Battery Conservancy’s Masterplan, the Playscape connects visitors with nature through accessible play spaces, natural landforms, and visible water management. Technological innovations include a wastewater thermal recovery system, reducing energy use for heating and cooling by 48%.

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From Sydney’s Urban Revival to Dubai’s Waterfront Towers: Architecture Now Highlights from Foster + Partners, Beta Realities, and More

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These projects, announced between late September 2024 and early 2025, focus on transformative masterplans , housing solutions , and public spaces. In Sydney , fjcstudio's masterplan for Midtown aims to reshape the city's urban core with two 80-storey mixed-use towers, enhancing connectivity and public engagement. Read more

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Innovation is the key to 3XN and Itten+Brechbühl's new mass timber campus expansion in Switzerland

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A little more than 30 years after its opening in 1991, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Innovation Park in Ecublens, Switzerland, has announced a major campus expansion effort to be spearheaded by 3XN and the local studio Itten+Brechbühl (IB). Image render courtesy of 3XN.

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bold circular masterplan outlines MVRDV’s innovation park artificial intelligence in germany

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The post bold circular masterplan outlines MVRDV’s innovation park artificial intelligence in germany appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. MVRDV aimed for an immediately identifiable design that marks a pioneering site for the development of AI technologies.

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Italian Architect and Designer Italo Rota Passes Away at 70

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Image © Maykova Galina via Shutterstock Italo Rota , the Milan-born Italian architect, designer, and innovator, passed away on Saturday, at the age of 70. Museum of Novecento at Piazza del Duomo, Milano. Read more »

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Norman Foster reveals Kharkiv reconstruction masterplan

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British architect Norman Foster has unveiled details of the masterplan to redevelop Kharkiv , which will include a "landmark building" designed by the architect, on a trip to the Ukrainian city. Masterplan "result of many months of cooperation". Read: Russian shelling destroys constructivist landmark in Ukraine.