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MAD's undulating concrete library "doesn't say too much" says Ma Yansong

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The video focusses on MAD 's Cloudscape of Haikou, a library with a flowing form cast in white concrete located in a waterside park in Haikou on the island of Hainan. MAD Architects designed Cloudscape of Haikou, a library in China. Photo by Aogvision.

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Dezeen and Holcim launch Concrete Icons video series with Ma Yansong interview

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Each instalment will explore how and why concrete was used in each project, as well as what the future holds for the material. Concrete Icons will launch on Thursday this week with an exclusive video interview with Yansong about MAD Architects' Haikou Cloudscape Library.

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Sky Mountain- Haikou Bay No.6 High Standard Seaside Station by Sou Fujimoto Architects

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Photo © ACF Haikou City has launched a large-scale international public art project “Haikou, Pavilions by the Seaside” since 2021, inviting many world-renowned architects and artists to jointly design and build 16 seaside pavilions for Haikou that are both public service and artistic appreciation.

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The Square is a space for students to "open their minds" says Sou Fujimoto

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Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how his stacked-cube learning centre in Switzerland is one of the most significant projects of his career in this instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. Fujimoto used Holcim's low-carbon ECOPact concrete for the project.

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Casa Ventura "floats on top of the hill" its built on says Tatiana Bilbao

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Its projects include cultural institutions, installations, masterplans and affordable housing typologies. Other completed projects by the studio include a sculptural pavilion for an exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen and a concrete grid-shaped installation at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria.

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The Broad "doesn't feel like a traditional museum" says Elizabeth Diller

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Other projects completed by the studio include the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado and the renovation of Museum of Modern Art in New York. The previous instalment in the series focuses on MAD's sinuous Cloudscape library in Haikou, China. According to Diller, the museum was designed to feel "extremely welcoming".

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BaanTower Rotterdam apartment building

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Black Nero Portoro marble floors and walls are offset by a golden ceiling painted with a cloudscape in gold leaf. At 159m high, in black marble with a luminous crown, it can hold its own against the surrounding high-rise development – which is framed in fabulous urban views from The BaanTower’s huge windows.