PoroCity - Opening up Solidity is a manifesto for the introduction of the public realm into the private sphere of our cities. The book provides the tools to make urban porosity socially, environmentally and economically valuable. The book will officially be launched on 6 November...

For the new design of Theater aan de Parade in ’s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) MVRDV is among the five selected architectural offices. The selected offices are AMA Group Associated Architects, van Dongen-Koschuch Architects and Planners, Kraaijvanger Architects, MVRDV en...

In October of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. The biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2600 designers to more than 335,000 visitors from home and abroad. Dutch Design Week (link: https://www.ddw.nl/en/home) in E...

The Beijing KWG·M·CUBE, a 40,000-square-metre shopping centre designed by MVRDV, has completed construction in Beijing. Asked by the client to make the building a visual statement, MVRDV created a multifaceted volume that responds to its surroundings with a pearlesc...

MVRDV and residents of the village of Overschild in the North of the Netherlands have developed a plan to strengthen the village, which has been damaged by gas extraction. The vision has already been called “a shining example in a battered province” by the local media...

Between now and the end of the year, the municipality of Eindhoven and MVRDV will test various paving materials in the Eindhoven city centre. The municipality has established several paving test sections on the Demer and Nieuwstraat. "After more than 25 years, the current public ...

The 5th edition of the ARCHMARATHON Awards has just ended. The event, held in the setting of Palazzo Mezzanotte, was attended by 55 architectural and interior design studios coming from 23 countries and 4 continents. 16 different category winners were announced during t...

MVRDV has been shortlisted three major cities for the international competition for innovative carbon neutral and resilient urban projects, Reinventing Cities. Reinventing Cities was launched by C40, an alliance between the world’s largest cities and their mayors to tackle ...

MVRDV has released its proposed design for the Concordia Hub, a renovation and extension of a 19th-century listed building on Słodowa Island in Wrocław, Poland. MVRDV’s design retains the façade of the existing building and adds a contemporary extension to the rear, ...

MVRDV principal and co-founder Nathalie de Vries has been appointed Professor of Architectural Design at BK Bouwkunde TU Delft. She proposes to look upon the theme of public buildings as a collective knowledge source, and to produce output for the architectural community and beyo...

MVRDV has completed construction on The Imprint, a new 2-building art-entertainment complex in close proximity to Seoul’s Incheon Airport. Featuring a nightclub in one building and indoor theme park in the other, the windowless structures feature three key design elements: ...

Yesterday at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, MVRDV presented a new report that offers 5 recommendations to Bay Area officials on the region’s plans for a resilient future. The report is titled Too Much + Too Little, and was created by MVRDV as part o...

Installed as part of the BredaPhoto Festival from the September 5th to October 21st, The Infinity Path is a temporary structure covering a large part of the square on the Chassé Promenade. MVRDV’s design comprises a raised path offering views to the city while provid...

Manifesta has announced a collaboration with MVRDV on an interdisciplinary urban study of Marseille and its metropolitan region as the base for the curatorial framework of Manifesta 13. The study will serve as a platform to develop artistic and cultural interventions during the b...

MVRDV´s co-founder Jacob van Rijs, MVRDV Partners Jan Knikker and Frans de Witte with Business Development Manager Bart Dankers will be present at this year's EXPO REAL event taking place 8-10 October in Munich. There will also be client presentations of our Mannheim p...

MVRDV announced today that urban designer Enno Zuidema will head its department for Strategic Urban Planning from 1st September 2018. In this role he will oversee MVRDV’s urban planning projects and development strategies in the Netherlands and abroad.Out of Rotterdam, Zuid...

MVRDV is honoured to have two of its recently completed projects featured in The TIME Magazine list of World’s Greatest Places 2018.The Tianjin Binhai Library, designed by MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, is a 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous...

We are delighted to announce MVRDV named as Firm of the year by Architizer. Each year, Architizer honours firms and designers whose vast portfolio of work is of outstanding quality and pushing the boundaries of architecture further.“We are delighted that MVRDV is honoured i...

MVRDV and Woods Bagot have proposed a “new kind of skyscraper” for a landmark mixed-use site in Melbourne’s Southbank. The Stack is one of six invited entries in an architectural competition organised by the site’s owners Beulah International, a Melbourne-...

The municipality of Haarlemmermeer approved MVRDV’s urban plan for the new district Hyde Park. Located right next to Hoofddorp station, from spring of 2019, it will be just four minutes by train from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and twelve minutes from Amsterdam's business di...

The City of Rennes and Poste Immo, a real estate subsidiary of the La Poste group, announce MVRDV as one for four finalists to transform the Palais du Commerce, the historic La Poste building. The 12,000m² building, spread over 5 floors was built at the end of the 19th centu...

In collaboration with MVRDV and The Why Factory, 25 students from five different cities across Russia gathered for a Four-Day workshop to dream up future housing visions for the city of St. Petersburg. The results of this workshop are now on view in the exhibition SPb 2103 until ...

The Viaducts of Almere Floriade are now under construction, an exciting development for Almere Floriade 2022, the grid of gardens that will in future occupy the 45ha peninsula.The widening of the A6 is used to create a maximum landscapeexperience of the motorway and surround...

On 3 July 2018, results of The Planet Maker design studio by The Why Factory in collaboration with RMIT (Melbourne) and UTS (Sydney) were presented at TU Delft’s Orange Tribune. 48 planet vision models are on display exploring future scenarios for the planet over the next 1...

MVRDV complete Salt in Amsterdam, a 3,700m2 office building offering flexible workspace in a prime harbour location in the city’s port redevelopment area of Minervahaven. The building is directed towards the creative industry in Amsterdam where there is a chronic shortage o...

On 27th June, the counsel of Amsterdam and the development combination OMC signed an agreement for the development of the Urban Interactive District (UID) in the Zuidoost-area. The urban development design by MVRDV will provide Arenapoort with a dynamic new urban area where livin...

The first foundation stone was laid to mark the beginning of construction of the first phase of Hamburg Innovation Port, a 70,000m2 mixed-use development at the inner harbour of Hamburg-Harburg, the Hanse City’s southern high-tech hub. The project designed by MVRDV connects...

On June 15th, 2018 the exhibition Coder le monde (Coding the world) opened to the public at Centre Pompidou in Paris. The show takes stock of contemporary digital creation in different disciplines and includes a display of several PoroCity towers, created by the researchers ...

Bulgari’s flagship store in Kuala Lumpur has opened with a new façade that imagines the luxury brand’s heritage and experiments with traditional materials. The Kuala Lumpur storefront is the first in a series of MVRDV façade designs for the luxury brand....

Tianjin Binhai Library is one of the finalists of the second annual Surface Travel Awards. The Travel Awards are Surface's annual tribute to the most thoughtfully conceived spaces and products, as well as to the architects, designers, and other innovators who inspire, empower, an...

Winy Maas has been named as an Honorary Fellow for The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).RIAS was founded in 1916 as the professional body for all chartered architects in Scotland and is the foremost institute in the country dealing with architecture and t...

Crystal Houses is one of the nominees for the Wienerberger Brick Award 2018, an award for outstanding architectural design as well as aesthetics and functional benefits for using bricks, clay blocks and roof tiles in contemporary architecture. The winners will be announ...

On 31 May, 2018 TU Berlin will hold the first of the POSITIONEN lectures organised by Jacob van Rijs as part of his chair with the university. This inaugural lecture will be given by Florian Idenburg of the US-based practice SO-IL. The lecture series POSITIONEN wel...

Time Space Existence has announced this year’s participants for its Venice biennial exhibition. With over 200 architects and artists set to participate, the fourth edition includes internationally renowned figures such as Odile Decq, Peter Eisenman, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libes...

Responding to the theme of freespace, the Hong Kong pavilion exhibition celebrates the unique building typology and urban conditions of Hong Kong with Vertical Fabric: Density in Landscape.The exhibition provides Hong Kong’s slender towers with a platfor...

MVRDV revealed its initial design for Tirana Pyramid in the presence of Prime Minister Edi Rama, Mayor Erion Veliaj, The Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF), members of the Municipality of Tirana and public. The 11,800m2 former communist monument will b...

Bałtyk has won the award - BRYŁA ROKU 2017, a Polish prize celebrating the best building of the year and voted for by readers of the popular architecture portal. This year marks the eleventh edition of the award in which Internet users choose the best-designed building in Po...

MVRDV founders Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries are proud to announce the opening of a new office in Spaces Réaumur, Paris. In recent years, MVRDV has become increasingly active in France with prestigious projects in Rennes, Bordeaux and Paris.France has bec...

Developer Beulah International has announced the six international teams competing to design a “landmark” mixed-use development in Melbourne’s Southbank.The developer envisions an integrated mixed-use concept for a prominent site the corner of Southban...

We are thrilled Tianjin Binhai Library won the International architecture category for Land Rover's BORN Awards 2018.The BORN Awards, founded by Jean-Christophe Chopin eight years ago, celebrate creativity in design lifestyle combining functionality and desirability. A ...

MVRDV collaborated with Bvlgari for Milan Design Week 2018 in an installation that embodies the renowned Italian brand’s creative approach to be presented for the first time. The installation at the Brera Design District translates three key elements of Bvlgari creativity &...

From today until 19 April, IMKAN Properties will showcase the project Pixel, at this year's Cityscape property fair in Abu Dhabi. MVRDV's inaugural project in the United Arab Emirates, Pixel is a 76,000m2 residential development, incorporating over 15,000m2 of commercial and reta...

On Friday, June 22, the winners of the 2018 AZ Awards will be revealed at the 2018 Azure Awards and gala ceremony. Winy Maas will be Azure’s Guest of Honour.In 2018, the AZ Awards received 997 international entries – the greatest number of submissions in the...

Zeestad and the municipality of Den Helder (the Netherlands) today announced MVRDV as winners in the competition for a new public installation on the northern dike of the city of Den Helder. The jury praised the winning entry for demonstrating an "energetic spirit of the city is ...