WINY MAAS / MVRDV THE ARCHITECT WHO STACKED THE WORLD When Architecture Stopped Spreading Outward — and Started Asking What Happens If You Go Up By Arindam Bose    | Architect / Designer Spotlight | BeEstates Intelligence | Part 25 | OCTOBER 2026 ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Last week in this series found Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Snøhetta dissolving the boundary between the building and the public space it sits in — making the roof a plaza, making the plaza a building, making the Oslo Opera House a piece of civic infrastructure that anyone can walk on regardless of whether they have a ticket. The principle: architecture as the infrastructure of collective ownership. The building belongs to the person who touches it. This week the series turns to an architect who was trained as a landscape architect before he was trained as an architect, who grew up in a family that ran a garden centre, who built an eight-metre-high Ferris wheel ...