MVRDV has unveiled their design for Eindhoven’s Heuvel shopping center, creating a cultural green quarter for the Dutch city. The scheme is defined by a “glass mountain” of cultural functions topped by a rooftop park, offering a sustainable solution for both the outdated shopping center and.
Police detain the Black artist John Sims at his gallery residency in South Carolina.
John Sims, an artist-activist whose work often explores the symbols of white supremacy, was detained by police at his own artist residency. He’s the current artist in residence at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina, where he’s staging an exhibition that reimagines the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of hope. Last week, four police officers spotted an open door that’s “usually secured especially after business hours” and began to search the building only to find Sims in his lofted bedroom. Ignoring his request that the officers identify themselves, they climbed the stairs to Sims’ bedroom, guns drawn, and handcuffed him for six minutes while they questioned him. “I don’t know that the reaction to him would have been the same, if it would have been a small White woman, as opposed to a big Black man,” Michaela Pilar Brown, the center’s executive dire
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The project is the result of a plan to create a sustainable redevelopment vision for the outdated Heuvel shopping centre and the music venue located within it. MVRDV s project reshapes the site around a mix of retail, cultural and leisure activities, revitalising the shopping experience while also providing the city of Eindhoven with a new cultural destination. Furthermore, the project establishes a better connection between the urban block and the surrounding urban fabric, replacing the shopping centre s covered passages with open streets. Adding to the area s attractiveness, the roofs would become accessible and feature vegetation, contributing to the greening of central Eindhoven.