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Floriade 2022 . Almere

MVRDV

The city of Almere presents today its plans for the Floriade 2022 candidature.

Almere is one of the four Dutch cities left in the race for the prestigious garden Expo which takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands and it currently open in Venlo. The MVRDV plan for Almere is not a temporary expo site but a lasting green Cité Idéale as an extension to the existing city centre. The waterfront site opposite the city centre will be developed as a vibrant new urban neighbourhood and also a giant plant library which will stay beyond the expo. The ambition is to create a 300% greener exhibition than currently standard, both literally green and sustainable: each program on the site will be combined with plants which will create programmatic surprises, innovation and ecology. At the same time the site will be with a vast program such as a university, hotel, marina, offices and homes more urban than any other Floriade has been before, it is an exemplary green city. The Nederlandse Tuinbouwraad (NTR) will decide in August which city will be organising the next Floriade in 2022.