The Beijing-based firm led by Ma Yansong, MAD Architects, has been contracted to transform the San Francisco warehouse in the port of Rotterdam into a museum on global migration. On the south bank of the River Maas, the 16,000-square-meter building w
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
The conversion of the Fenix warehouse into a museum of migration incorporates a public atrium and a theatrical stairway that will allow users to move throughout the space. It will be the first MAD-designed public cultural building in Europe...
The complex is designed as a modular system that guarantees its adaptability to future demands, in which the ‘rambla’ – a pedestrian street that favors social interaction – enters into the ‘kapsalon’ – a center for cultural and production activities.
The urban area is multiplied for and by the new ways of living, working, and entertaining in the 21st century through a series of levels that are thermally equipped and that densify the city and offer a neutral umbrella for human and animal coexisten
On the shore of a harbor zone that is currently undergoing a large-scale regeneration process, an atypical dairy churns out its products sustainably and distributes them in the vicinity.
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.
Seating 63,000 spectators, the new stadium of the football club Feyenoord Rotterdam will be the largest in the Netherlands. The project led by David Gianotten – with Kees van Casteren and Shinji Takagi – of the Dutch firm OMA draws inspiration from t
Subtracted temporarily from the world wide flow of trade, 3,500 containers are gathered in Rotterdam to form a megacontainer on the scale of the city: the City Container. These containers are used as the envelope – floor, walls, and ceiling – of an i
The extension of this attic in the city of Rotterdam opens up an exploration path for the densification of cities, based on the expansion of the area of the existing historic house and atelier. Color and texture become key aspects, because they estab
The new market in the historic center of Rotterdam, characterized by its roof which is a horseshoe arch of 40 meters in height, offers a mixture of different programs aimed at revitalizing the Laurenskwartier district where it goes up. Aside from the
Located in the center of Rotterdam, the Timmerhuis is a new building for the city hall that accommodates services, offices, residential units, shops, and parking. Attached to another municipal building from 1953, the new building adjusts to its neigh
As a result of a competition held in 2004, the Market Hall is part of a larger plan that aims to regenerate the city center of Rotterdam. Located where the city was founded, the building is a new mixed-use type that interrelates public and residentia
The windmill blades, with soft curves due to their aerodynamic shape, are transformed into a playground, and by integrating the trees on the plot it is possible to build a labyrinth with four towers, a net, and a panna-cage...
The development of the high-speed railway line turned Rotterdam into one of the most important cities within the European transport network. This fact prompted the launch, in 2003, of the project to remodel the city’s Central Station, which had to ma
The proposal is designed to reactivate Rijnhaven, a decaying Rotterdam port, by redefining a maritime border with a new structure to organize the flows with flexibility and provide a framework for evolution. The project develops a modulated honeycom
Also between tradition and modernity is the project for single-family houses located in Rotterdam, where spatial innovation is combined with conventional materials...
The expansion of its activities has forced Rotterdam’s harbor to shift closer to the sea, thereby freeing up extensive areas of the city for other uses. The Wilhelmina pier lies between the River Maas and the Rhine Harbour, and is gradually developin
Raised on a plot that in past times housed a small street market on the shores of the river Maas, the 29 floors of the two towers set a new point of height in the heart of Rotterdam. In this city scored by a network of water canals, the complex seems
El mítico Teatro Luxor de Rotterdam ha sido, desde su construcción en 1920, una pieza clave para esta ciudad holandesa, donde la cultura musical —desde la ópera hasta el cabaret— se encuentra firmemente arraigada. Tras cumplir 75 años a pleno rendimi
Behind the glass skin of the ABN-AMRO bank in Amsterdam is a vertical city; a system of interchangeable empty spaces corresponding with the public zones which are distributed among the work areas. The residential towers projected for The Hague and Ro
A perforated aluminium skin modifies the outside of the existing complex and creates new semipublic areas in the interior of the building. Out of the reorganisation of the old dwellings come 98 new apartments of six different typologies (open plan or
Situada en un céntrico barrio de Rotterdam y liberada desde 1994 del tráfico en superficie, la plaza Binnerotte (50 metros de anchura por 500 de longitud) es el escenario de un concurrido mercado que la abarrota un día a la semana, permaneciendo el r
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
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
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
In a world first, Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has put its entire collection on display in a mammoth new warehouse...
A version of Herman Hertzberger’s structuralism? An accidental encounter between a villa by Mies van der Rohe and another by Peter Eisenman (as Reinier de Graaf puts it, partner of the ever surreal Rem Koolhaas)? Or a lavish expenditure of a hundred
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
OMA, con Rem Koolhaas y Reinier de Graaf a la cabeza, se ha alzado con la victoria en el concurso para la ampliación del Ayuntamiento de Rotterdam, en colaboración con Werner Sobek y los ingenieros ABT. Los ciudadanos fueron invitados a participar en
El problema de muchas exposiciones de arquitectura recientes es que su tema principal es la propia arquitectura. No se habla más que de los arquitectos estrella, de la belleza sublime de los objetos, de las innovadoras tecnologías que permiten constr
Nosotros, los arquitectos holandeses, siempre hemos esperado mucho de la realidad que nos rodea. En nuestros momentos más etnográficos, al describir con palabras ansiosas las partes más recónditas de nuestra geografía, ¿no estábamos buscando siempre
The portrait of the modern architect reflects a sensitivity which does not admit the failure of the avant-garde project, that postmodern skepticism about architecture as a means to transform society. The architect, in his modesty, also contributes to
The architecture of a Europe that is at present launching a new single currency vacillates between Dutch subversion and Swiss minimalist rigor.
Amsterdam is a city of still water (its harbour linked to the sea by canal), while the waters of Rotterdam go in and out with the tide.” This is how the Dutch explain the differences between their first and second largest cities. Both cities are part
