AV 031 ECO DEVELOPMENTSRising awareness of environmental and sustainability issues have driven a number of recent master-plans and projects that are featured in this number. In this context master plans drawn up for the North Sea by OMA and the Zira Island Master Plan by BIG are examined alongside MVRDV’s Eco-City, West 8’s Palma Beach design and Vincent Guallart’s plan for Bioclimatic villages in Chinchilla. In addition, new projects and designs by Hadid/Schumacher, Steven Holl, Yazdani Studio, Modostudio and Nieto Sobejano are included, accompanied by competition entries for the Congress Center, Lanzarote and the CaixaForum Building, Zaragoza. The MAXXI Museum by Hadid/Schumacher in Rome is examined in greater detail.
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