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News • News • 9 Dec 2024
MVRDV-designed clubhouse in shipping container supports refugees through the power of sport
MVRDV has designed a modular and multi-functional sports club in a shipping container for Amsterdam-based social enterprise KLABU (meaning “club” in Swahili). KLABU builds clubhouses in refugee camps and cities, supporting refugees through the power of sport and community.
Coco Olakunle
Coco Olakunle
MVRDV began working in partnership with KLABU in 2022 on the design of the modular sports club. The clubhouse gives people access to sports equipment, activities, Wi-Fi, music, and sports broadcasts. Housed in a shipping container, MVRDV has conceived an innovative and easily repeatable design. The clubhouse offers a welcoming, safe, flexible, and participative community space, a place where refugees can connect a... More
News • News • 25 Nov 2024
MVRDV restores Aldo van Eyck’s Tripolis office buildings and protects them with office landscraper
In the Zuidas neighborhood of Amsterdam, international architectural practice MVRDV has renovated and transformed Tripolis Park, one of the last projects completed by celebrated Dutch modernist architect Aldo van Eyck (1918 – 1999). In this key redevelopment project, MVRDV has restored two of the three listed heritage buildings in keeping with Van Eyck’s original designs. The studio also added a new 12-story “landscraper” along the site’s edge that shelters the Tripolis complex from the adjacent A10 highway.
Ossip van Duivenbode
Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV
The Tripolis complex consists of three office buildings — Tripolis 100, 200, and 300 — that date from 1994. The develo... More
News • News • 30 Sep 2024
MVRDV and Buro Harro complete lush Buitenplaats Koningsweg master plan on former WWII military base
On the outskirts of Arnhem in the eastern Netherlands, a surprising new master plan has come to fruition. Completed by International architectural practice MVRDV, Arnhem-based landscape architectural studio Buro Harro, and developer KondorWessels Projecten, the lush master plan has transformed a former World War II German military base into a residential and cultural enclave in the midst of the Veluwe (a forest-rich, lowland natural reserve). The entire project commenced in 2010 and combines history, housing, culture, and nature in a unique setting.
Jannes Linders
MVRDV
The recently completed “Buitenplaats Koningsweg” was at one time two camouflaged barracks — Kamp Koningsweg Noord and Zeven Pr... More
News • News • 23 Jul 2024
MVRDV imagines mixed-use Pixel development in Abu Dhabi as an oyster
International architectural practice MVRDV has completed Pixel, a mixed-use development project in Abu Dhabi, UAE, that is designed to cultivate community and creativity. Located on Reem Island, a natural island situated 600 meters off the coast of Abu Dhabi, Pixel is the first project to be realized in the island’s new “Makers District” neighborhood. The development is defined by seven towers that surround a communal plaza and is imagined as an oyster. Abstract patterns on the outer facades of each tower allude to oyster shells. Around the plaza, the towers “break down” to form pixel-like terraces and bay windows complete with shading screens finished in a mix of fourteen pearlescent pastel colors — thes... More
News • News • 14 May 2024
Key recent projects by MVRDV
MVRDV is a global architecture studio established in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries, with offices in Rotterdam, Shanghai, Paris, Berlin, and New York. The firm takes a research-based and collaborative approach to its design process, involving clients, stakeholders, and experts from various fields to create progressive projects that promote a better living environment.
MVRDV's work spans various scales, from buildings of all types and sizes to urban plans and visions, publications, installations, and exhibitions. The firm is known for designing innovative, experimental, and vibrant mixed-use buildings and high-density housing projects and repurposing defunct structures through exciting transformations. MVRDV is als... More
News • News • 8 May 2024
Studioninedots designs “Octavia Hill” on intricate site in new Hyde Park district, Hoofddorp
Amsterdam-based architecture and urban design practice Studioninedots has designed a building as part of the new Hyde Park district development in Hoofddorp, a town in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands. The studio’s challenge was to create a building that accommodates 124 social housing units (alongside a community cafe and workspaces) in a complex volume and activates the three urban axes around the site.
SURREND3R, Studioninedots
Studioninedots
International architecture and urbanism office MVRDV designed the urban development plan for the new Hyde Park district, part of the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam. The 400,000-square-meter (4,305,564-square-feet) urban development will transform the form... More
News • Innovations • 13 Feb 2024
MVRDV designs a coral-inspired 3D printed facade for Tiffany & Co. using recycled fishing nets
MVRDV has designed a unique coral-inspired 3D printed retail facade that uses ocean plastic for the Tiffany & Co. store in Singapore Changi Airport. Highlighting the heritage brand’s commitment to sustainability (including coral conservation), the facade was created in collaboration with Amsterdam-based Aectual, a company working with circular 3D printed materials, and Milan-based engineers BUROMILAN.
Courtesy of Tiffany&Co.
When developing the design for the 3D printed facade, MVRDV picked out several distinctive design attributes that are intrinsic to Tiffany’s identity and history. These range from “touches of Tiffany Blue® to the use of innovative materials, inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffany&... More
News • News • 29 Jan 2024
Active community participation drives the design of a mixed-use neighborhood in Düsseldorf
In the north-western German city of Düsseldorf, international architecture and urbanism office MVRDV and Rotterdam-based LOLA Landscape Architects are working on the development of a new social housing and community scheme. A project for property developer Cube Real Estate, plans for the “Grüne Mitte” development are rooted in the active participation of local residents. The design proposal includes 500 new homes, half of which will be either affordable or social housing, as well as community spaces created to elevate and reinvigorate the area.
MVRDV
The site is located alongside a busy road in Flingern-Süd, a working-class district east of Düsseldorf city center. It is currently occupied by an unde... More
News • News • 27 Dec 2023
MVRDV exhibition showcases Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre as a model of adaptive reuse
ReviveR is a new exhibition by the international architectural firm MVRDV that explores Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre as a circular manifesto for a low-carbon, child-friendly city. The exhibition takes place at the Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre, a recently transformed tower building in the southern Chinese city’s Futian District. An educational endeavor, ReviveR considers a number of narratives that surround the building, from the importance of social and interactive environments for adults and children alike to the significance of the adaptive reuse of buildings as a way of reducing carbon emissions, following the principles of circularity.
Zhang Chao
Zhang Chao
MVRDV completed the tra... More
News • News • 30 Nov 2023
MVRDV transforms office building into vibrant workspaces for social impact campus in Berlin
Atelier Gardens is an evolving campus in Berlin intended to serve impact organizations, film businesses and artists. Located just south of Tempelhof Field, the so-called HAUS 1 by MVRDV is a vibrant new point of entry for the campus, an adaptive reuse project that has transformed an existing three-story office building of 1,700 square meters built in the 1990s into a colorful new flexible space.
The six-acre campus has an interesting history as the purpose built home to the film studios company Berliner Union Film, first constructed in 1912. In 2019 London-based real estate developer Fabrix acquired the site, which still remains active for film and television productions, and invested in it as a new space for 'social and regenerative entre... More
News • News • 22 Nov 2023
New energy-positive timber-hybrid residential tower in Amsterdam will prioritize sustainability and greenery
MVRDV and Space Encounters have won a competition to design a timber-hybrid residential tower in Amsterdam’s new Sluisbuurt neighborhood. The joint submission from the two Dutch architectural firms proposed a 22-story building with a wooden structure, energy-producing facade, and an abundance of greenery and communal spaces. Sluisbuurt is a high-density, mid- to high-rise community on Zeeburgereiland (an island on Amsterdam’s eastern side) that will comprise up to 5,500 homes. For the architects, “the project aims to set an example in an under-construction neighborhood that has sustainability and greenery as its core principles.”
Proloog
The project is titled Nachteiland — “night island” i... More
News • News • 2 Nov 2023
Pyramid of Tirana: from communist mausoleum to monument to the people
After years of varying use, vacancy and decay, the Pyramid of Tirana has been given new life as a home for a nonprofit educational institution. After a renovation and renewal by MVRDV, the building also functions as a public attraction, with stairways along the facade and a viewing platform at the top.
Ossip van Duivenbode
Ossip van Duivenbode
The building opened this month as the venue for the Berlin Process Summit, an annual summit of EU leaders with the six western Balkan countries, the first time it was held outside the borders of the European Union. The meeting and official opening was attended by Western government leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, Olaf Scholz and Mark Rutte.
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News • News • 11 May 2023
MVRDV’s stacked residential building brings homes to a dense neighborhood in Montevideo
Ziel is a new 15-story residential building in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, that will bring family homes to a densely populated neighborhood. The first project in the South American country by Rotterdam-based architectural firm MVRDV, Ziel comprises a loosely-stacked series of individual homes. The layout is designed to ensure light and air spread through the entire building, and includes a number of green and communal spaces for residents to enjoy and share.
MVRDV
Ziel is located in Montevideo’s southern tip, close to the ocean. The building occupies a corner plot next to Villa Biarritz, a park that serves as a green heart in the dense Punta Carretas neighborhood. In its design, MVRDV extends the greenery of the park... More
Project • By WillemsenU • Shops
Jan van Lieshoutstraat
Located between the marketplace and the buzzing nightlife street Stratumseind, the Jan van Lieshoutstraat has been insignificant for many years. In the upcoming years, however, new initiatives will transform the area into an attractive residential district.
Close-by various public facilities, this location lends itself to be transformed into a small residential building with a commercial ground floor. On the top of the building, a spectacular rooftop pavilion will be looking over the city centre.
WillemsenU
Stacked Worlds
In the densification vision of city supervisor Winy Maas (MVRDV), more room is provided for new developments in the city centre of Eindhoven. It is important to mix functions and to activate the rooftops in o... More
News • News • 4 Apr 2023
MVRDV wins competition campus for artificial intelligence Heilbronn
MVRDV, along with LOLA Landscape Architects and others, has won the competition for a campus focused on artificial intelligence in Heilbronn. The German city will have a striking circular campus with functions companies, laboratories and an innovation center for startups. With the circular master plan, MVRDV wants to position the campus as internationally leading, appropriate for AI technology.
Copyright MVRDV
Copyright MVRDV
The ambition is to create a campus prestigious enough to compete with world-renowned technology campuses such as Silicon Valley and and those in Shenzhen, MVRDV reports. The circular shape increases the campus' global prominence and makes the site recognizable right down to satellite photos, the firm s... More