The Aberdeen City Garden will fuse nature and culture into a vital social network at the heart of the city. A network of pathways will criss-cross the Garden, linking the cultural destinations and neighbourhoods on all sides to each other. This cat's cradle of urban lines supports both park and cultural activities within a fabric of the historic and contemporary, conjoining the urbane with the pastoral. Covering the Denburn Valley... >>>

How to create a university building which satisfies a wide variety of programmatic and functional requirements while still maintaining an open and informal spatial arrangement? The client initially asked for two buildings, building A and B, linked by a podium. MVRDV’s design responds by turning this solid podium, containing lecture theaters, entrance and breakout spaces and cafes and lobbies, into a glass-roofed hall, a grand atrium integrated with a plaza in front. >>>