‘A place of hope and solutions’: the building offering a better future

As briefs go, it’s an ambitious one: design a building that will accelerate the societal changes required to create a more sustainable future.   

It’s a bold mission that appears to be one step closer after plans were unveiled for such a building on the banks of the river Maas in Rotterdam. 

Billed as a place to help people “shift from complacency and powerlessness to hope, imagination and collective action for our shared future,” Shift Embassy promises to use the power of art, architecture and storytelling to showcase successful solutions to critical global challenges.