Wk17 2025

Cultural Studies

Meditations for the Anxious Mind

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Architecture

It’s a Pool. Inside a Church.

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV revealed their design for an adaptive reuse project of a church which implements a community swimming pool within it in the Netherlands.

Though some might find this odd and perhaps even confronting, I think it is a great example of the level of adaptive reuse that we need to see in the architectural world.

When you take carbon emission considerations and the life-cycle of many structures in our urban environments into consideration this is yet another example of the design solutions which are required going forward.

Adapt, not demolish and rebuild.