MVRDV’s new glass building in Detroit’s Eastern Market is a love letter to the city

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MVRDV has been commissioned to create a new office and retail building in Detroit\u2019s Eastern Market. Titled Glass Mural, the structure\u00a0is conceived as\u00a0a celebration of its historic area \u2013 the\u00a0largest public farmers market in the United States.\u00a0The colourful scheme will also incorporate murals by artists DENIAL and Sheefy McFly...

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has been commissioned to design new office and retail building Glass Mural, which will incorporate work by artists DENIAL and Sheefy McFly

‘Over the last 20 years The Eastern Market has become the epicenter of the creative community in Detroit,’ says MVRVD’s Winy Maas. ‘The gritty"industrial" neighbourhood has become filled with public murals, thanks to the annual Murals in the Market festival, which was recently named by the Smithsonian as one of the five most important public art festivals in the world.’

‘I feel that the physical integration of the original public artwork into the glass architecture of the building is about the permanent preservation of an idea for the future to experience, as public art is more often than not, an ephemeral form of art,’ says DENIAL. ‘To incorporate the artwork and history of the building into the new imagination of the structure is a beautiful homage to a true epoch of change in the Eastern Market district and for Detroit.

 

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