Dezeen Debate features “bad acid trip” building proposal

The latest Dezeen Debate newsletter features MVRDV’s winning proposal to design a “new world wonder” in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

The architectural studio’s proposal, dubbed Rotterdam Rocks!, was the winner of social enterprise Shift’s competition to design a €240 million landmark in the city.

Commenters are unsure about the choice, with one saying that the design “looks like something Shrek would throw up”. Another unimpressed reader wrote, “It looks like a bad acid trip.”

Other stories in this week’s newsletter included the news of the world’s tallest timber tower topping out in Sydney and designer Karen Korellis Reuther’s review of the gender inequality in product design.

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