MVRDV Huayi Design   China   MVRDV – in collaboration with Huavi Design – has won the competition to design the Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park in the east of Shenzhen, which is to include an arena for badminton tournaments and other athletic championships as well as the new Chine

MVRDV GRAS Reynés Arquitectos   Spain   The project transforms the area around Plaza Gomila, in Palma de Mallorca’s El Terreno neighborhood, The first phase has been completed, consisting of sixty dwellings varying in size and typology, plus commercial spaces. The Fluxà family, owners of t

MVRDV LOLA Landscape Architects   Germany   The process of building in an existing neighborhood is often fraught with conflict, so open communication, negotiation, and compromise with the local community are important. It is with this attitude of engagement with the neighborhood that the Grün

MVRDV   Germany   The firm MVRDV – in collaboration with Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten – has transformed a 1997 Berlin office block into an entrance marker for the Atelier Gardens mixed campus, the site of a historic film studio built in the 1920s. The now bright

MVRDV   Albania   Built in 1988 as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, the Pyramid of Tirana has been converted by the Rotterdam firm MVRDV into a cultural center. Located in the heart of the Albanian capital, it has reopened with the original co

MVRDV   Taiwan   The firm MVRDV, in collaboration with LLJ Architects, has built a fruit and vegetable market in the east part of the city of Tainan. Reinventing the typology of markets, the building gives views of the surrounding landscape from an undulating accessi

MVRDV   China   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won the competition to build the new central library of Wuhan. With its 140,000 square meters, it seeks to be one of China’s largest libraries. The building opens to reveal activities going on between stepped tiers of boo

MVRDV   China   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won the competition to design a residential and shopping complex in the financial district of Jiangbei New Area, an expansion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The 166,000-square-meter project presents two L-shaped towers,

MVRDV   Germany   At the center of the observance of the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei social housing complex in Augsburg rises this pavilion built with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a work of MVRDV. It harbors the exhibition ‘Fuggerei of the Future,’ which propos

AL_A (Amanda Levete Architects)   Serbia   The British firm AL-A, led by Amanda Levete, has won the competition to build a concert hall in Ušće Park, along the stretch of the Danube River that flows through the Serbian capital. Its entry carried the day over those of the five other teams that

MVRDV   United Kingdom   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has unveiled images of the hill it will be raising beside Marble Arch in London, to serve as a vantage point overlooking Oxford Street and Hyde Park. A 25-meter-tall metal scaffold will be covered with plywood, soil, and plan

MVRDV GRAS Reynés Arquitectos   Spain   The metallic structure that is also a vertical forest flanks a floodable central plaza – the Green Hall – surrounded by other programs. The circulations and accesses lead to this plaza, fit out with porous pavements and new urban furniture, lighting

MVRDV   Netherlands   Storing over 151,000 artworks, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen opens to the public in Rotterdam (6 November 2021), a work of the Dutch firm MVRDV. The outcome of a competition held in 2014, the 15,000-square-meter construction rises in the north part of

MVRDV   Poland   Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic

MVRDV   Germany   MVRDV has unveiled its scheme to turn the Dutch pavilion that the Rotterdam firm itself built in 2000 for the World’s Fair of Hannover, into an office building. The project uses the existing structure and also preserves a number of other features, in

MVRDV   China   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won the competition for the Shimao ShenKong International Center, a mixed-use development in the heart of the Longgang district of Shenzhen, China. To be known as Shenzhen Terraces, the 101,300-square-meter complex will i

MVRDV   China   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has turned a shopping mall built in the 1980s into a public space with a swimming pool in Tainan, a city in the south of the island of Taiwan. Tainan Spring, as the faciity is called, is part of a larger plan to regenerate th

MVRDV   Netherlands   The renovation of MVRDV’s offices pursues spatial continuity between the five arched segments that form the complex, and creates spaces for the firm’s 150 employees to interact in.

MVRDV   Poland   Right at the intersection of two major urban axes rises this iconic tower of mixed uses that include offices, hotel accommodation, a restaurant, and retail spaces within the plinth.

MVRDV   South Korea   Consisting of two buildings, one harboring a nightclub and the other an indoor theme park, the project is part of a whole leisure complex next to the country’s main airport.

MVRDV   China   Surrounding a spherical auditorium, the main reading area presents a tapestry of curving bookshelves that cascade in terraces from the ceiling all the way down to the floor.

MVRDV   Germany   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has unveiled images of Koolkiel, a mixed-use complex to go up in a former industrial zone of Kiel, capital of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The final design will be worked out with input from the community. The 65,0

MVRDV   Taiwan   The Rotterdam firm MVRDV’s design aims to revitalize Taipei’s central station area, in the Zhongzheng district. Standing 337 and 280 meters over the existing station, two new towers will combine offices, two hotels, two cinermas, and a commercial are

MVRDV   MVRDV NEXT, Superworld, and the Municipality of Rotterdam presented RoofScape, a new software that provides a visualisation engine for Rotterdam’s rooftops. Aimed at professionals and citizens alike, RoofScape is intended to be detailed and informati

Before they became the property of liberal states – that is, before they became ‘modern’ – museums were simply collections: clutters of artistic objects which sometimes reflected the exquisite tastes of a prince, lord, or dilettante, but always had a

The Economist   The 25m-high artificial hill at one end of Oxford Street dubbed the Marble Arch Mound opened in July. It was supposed to help lure shoppers freed from lockdown away from internet stores and back to Britain’s best-known shopping thoroughfare. But once

In modern cities, miles of unused flat rooftops await a new function. In Rotterdam alone we have over 18 square kilometers of unused flat roof. That must change, and the rooftops can provide the space to realize the housing challenge, energy transiti

El País   Ianko López   The name of five finalists in the competition to redevelop Madrid’s Azca business district have been made public: Diller Scofidio+Renfro with Porter+Bowman and b720; Heatherwick Studio with CLK; MVRDV with estudio GRAS; Rem Koolhaas-OMA with Battle i

Reminiscent of those rooms in mansions of the European nobility and bourgeoisie that were full of motley objects in a clutter, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Rotterdam’s leading cultural institution, which brings together the legacy of the two illus

Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic

The Guardian    Andrew Dickson   In a world first, Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has put its entire collection on display in a mammoth new warehouse...

Chinese president Xi Jinping a few years ago lambasted the ‘weird architecture’ that international stars were building in his country (see Arquitectura Viva 169), but his denouncement does not seem to have been much heeded. Otherwise there would be n

Almost thirty years ago MVRDV leaped to fame thanks, among other things, to its uninhibited way of crystallizing the diagrams of uses in constructions of a public nature. After all this time it seems that the formula still works, as we can see in the

Headed by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries, the Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV has since 1993 pursued a highly daring kind of architecture, radically festive and well distanced from conventionalisms, that has not run out of steam through

In the port city of Tianjin (population 15.47 million), the Dutch firm MVRDV recently completed an immense library with a huge inner eye that can be glimpsed from the street and which, being so spectacularly disturbing, reminds one of the eye of Suar

Laura Fernández Suárez   The visionary and illusionist work of MVRDV is overwhelming in its prolific variety. The Dutch company has gone from three founding members whose last names give it its name – Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries – to an international inf

Luis Fernández-Galiano   MVRDV’s work takes us to the other side of the looking glass. As is known, much of recent Dutch architecture is effervescently experimental. Tirelessly inventive and imaginatively innovative, we like to think that its roots can be found in the manufa

From afar the Markthal built by MVRDV in Rotterdam might suggest a kind of arch of triumph, a monument of the magnitude of the Baths of Caracalla. But this is just a mirage. As the visitor approaches the central eye of the building, the impression it

Enrique Encabo   It was in 1997 that MVRDV took the architectural world by storm by presenting, in a few months, four unquestionable works: the cantilevered WoZoCo in Amsterdam, Villa VPRO and the half-buried RVU tablet in Hilversum, and the Double House in Utrecht.

Bajo una gran pirámide acristalada, una montaña de libros invita a la lectura en una estructura de terrazas apiladas: así es el nuevo edificio de MVRDV para la biblioteca pública de la ciudad de Spijkenisse, a unos 20 kilómetros de Rotterdam. Con una

Con un proyecto desarrollado por MVRDV, la ciudad neerlandesa de Almere —de 170.000 habitantes y construida en la década de 1960 sobre unos terrenos ganados al mar— ha sido seleccionada para acoger la próxima edición de Floriade, la feria internacion

Peter Buchanan   Desde su primera edición en 2000, la convocatoria de los pabellones de la Galería Serpentine constituye un singular escaparate mediático donde se funden el arte y la arquitectura.

Dos torres residenciales —una de 260 metros de altura y 54 plantas, y otra que se eleva hasta los 300 metros con 60 niveles—, unidas en su parte central por un volumen que evoca una nube caótica y pixelada: así es el proyecto de los holandeses MVRDV

Además de la nueva obra de Foster, la ciudad china de Hangzhou, a 180 kilómetros al sudoeste de Shanghái, contará con un nuevo icono: el edificio para el Museo del Cómic y de la Animación, diseñado por los holandeses MVRDV, ganadores del concurso or

Carlos Verdaguer   El que los nombres de Rem Koolhaas o MVRDV pudieran aparecer entre las páginas de una publicación bajo la etiqueta de ‘urbanismo ecológico’ junto a los de Andrés Duany o Ian MacHarg, como ocurre en el caso de la publicación que aquí nos ocupa, no era

Levantado sobre una inmensa manzana urbana generada por el plan director que MVRDV ha diseñado para el Sur de Lyon, el edificio Le Monolithe alberga viviendas sociales, oficinas, ­residencias para discapacitados y comercio. El volumen del superbloque

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