Designed by MVRDV, the Imprint is a new 2-building art and entertainment complex constructed near the Seoul’s Incheon Airport. With a nightclub in one and an indoor theme park in the other building, these buildings have created quite the buzz.
Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode
The Imprint structures are windowless and feature 3 key design elements:

Imprints of the facades of the buildings that surround it.
Lifted entrances.
Golden entrance spot at the corner of the nightclub.

Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode
The Imprint is part of the 6 building complex of Paradise City. Less than a kilometer from South Korea’s largest airport, the Paradise City complex will be providing entertainment and hotel attractions.
The client requested the buildings to be windowless but one that integrated with the other buildings in the complex. Given the function of the buildings, this doesn’t seem impossible. However, how can a building connect to its surroundings without openings in its facade" How can an expressive facade be built when the brief requires it to be windowless"
Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV’s designs achieve this by imprinting the facades of the surrounding buildings into its own facade. The neighboring facades are “draped” over the building form and plaza like a shadow.

Winy Maas, principal and co-founder of MVRDV, says ?By placing, as it were, surrounding buildings into the facades of our buildings and in the central ...