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boomforlife.com A master-planned community in the spectacular desert of Southern California, BOOM changes America's idea of Twenty-First century urban life. Pedestrian-oriented, culture-driven, designed to inspire residents to better themselves and others, BOOM radically alters how we think about home, community and wellness. To create this new vision for living, developer BOOM Communities, Inc., formed a team of both renowned and emerging architects. These ten international architects will design all buildings as well as landscape the 100+ acre site. Bordered by the desert, and showcasing newly created natural landscapes throughout, the first phase has eight distinct housing neighborhoods, each designed by a different architect. Each architect set out to design an environment promoting both privacy and social interaction and did so in their own unique way. Plazas and pathways connect all 300 homes to an entertainment complex, with restaurants and stores, a boutique hotel, a gym + spa, along with state-of-the-art wellness facilities. Each is designed by one of the participating architects. While BOOM takes great pride in its architectural achievement, it is about more than new design. BOOM is also about lifestyle and a sense of community. Residents who live at BOOM will have the opportunity to be active and involved in the many social and sports activities the community offers, as well as BOOM's mentoring programs for the Desert communities.BOOM is forming a Private ...

Since the mid nineties the architects of MVRDV gained much admiration for their extraordinary architectural designs. Initially in The Netherlands, for instance with an unorthodox office building for a broadcasting company and with the Silodam, a building that stretches out in the waters of the Amsterdam harbour, looking like a giant container ship. The colourful complex showcases MVRDV's approach to density -- a collection of several different neighbourhoods condensed into one single building. International attention came with the Dutch pavilion at the World Exhibition in 2000 in Hannover. MVRDV surprised it's visitors by stacking Dutch landscapes into a square tower formation measuring 40 meters high. At the moment MVRDV is working on numerous projects around the globe. As diverse as these projects may seem, they all share the same challenge for MVRDV: finding original solutions for intensified use of space by combining a variety of functions. The new market hall in Rotterdam is but one of many projects of MVRDV where this idea of producing, instead of consuming space, comes apparent. Since their formation MVRDV has published visionary studies about global ecological issues, like KM3, a bulky book about how to prevent the suburbanisation of the country side. In their study Pig City, MVRDV proposes it's controversial thoughts on accommodating pigs in high-rise farms. www.mvrdv.nl CREDITS Commissioning editor Submarine Geert van de Wetering Producer: Olivia Sophie van ...