Architecture
Flores
Flores is a tower intended to be the iconic centre of the new Hortus district. Located exactly in the middle of the former Floriade site, Flores absorbs in its glass cladding the colours of all the plant species from the Arboretum with which MVRDV has had the site planted. The artist Alex Verhaest and Arttenders sought images from herbaria together and fused them into one image. The title of the work is Sympoiesis, meaning co-creation. The result is a sea of glowing colours on an area of 100 by 42 metres. Still dark at the bottom of the building, then fiery, and catching more blue from the sky towards the top, it has become a tower that radiates its splendour of colour to the far corners.