| This gravity-defying apartment complex in the Geuzenveld neighborhood of Amsterdam considers negative space as more important than the actual building. Beginning with the concept of a country house, architect MVRDV arranged colossal blocks to create a series of transitions from private residences to the natural outdoors. The gaping font “holes” act as enormous windows to the effacing Eendrachts Park. The interesting uncompleted look also reveals the white brick of the domestic “home” with the exterior cladding of irregular dark brick.>Completed in 2007, the name of this urban renewal project means “park edge.” The shimmering white home has a framed portal to the green communal park. |
(Lauren Manning– flickr/creative commons license)
(featured image by Lauren Manning on flickr/creative commons)
