The gaping hole in the centre of this office block in Paris was designed by MVRDV to preserve views of another local building
The Rotterdam-based architecture firm named the building Pushed Slab, after the way its volume has been "pushed until it breaks, then twisted and pushed to the south" to maintain a view to a nearby apartment building.
The new seven-storey structure is located on a former railway embankment in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is the first building of the city's proposed eco-quarter, so it has been designed to produce 90 megawatts of energy a year.
