Collective green space

MVRDV completes Ilot Queyries, a courtyard apartment building that combines intimate streetscapes and expansive green space MVRDV has completed construction of Ilot Queyries, a courtyard apartment building providing 282 homes – including 128 for social housing – parking, commercial space, and a rooftop restaurant in an intimate urban setting with plenty of light, air, and a large collective green space. Located to the east of the River Garonne in Bordeaux, across from the city’s UNESCO World Heritage historic centre, the building is part of a new neighbourhood of four buildings masterplanned by MVRDV alongside Joubert Architecture. Ossip van Duivenbode The project is envisaged as a test-bed for the principles of the... More

"The High Line Ideas competition exhibition at Grand Central Terminal was one of my proudest moments.” - Robert Hammond, Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line   Along a 1.5-mile stretch on Manhattan’s West Side, extending from the Meatpacking District through Chelsea and into Clinton, an elevated railway sat decaying for many years. Constructed between 1929 and 1934 as part of the West Side Improvement Project, the railway was conceived to reduce rail traffic on city streets and to provide freight delivery access to the upper-level loading docks of area warehouses and other industrial buildings. Abandoned after 1980, its venerable rail beds were left to decay, resulting in a rare urban ruin. Recognizing that demolition w... More