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 ...

Market Hall Rotterdam was analysed four times by market research company Strabo over the last three years. Its director Hans van Tellingen now presents the facts and figures as a reply to critics who have called the covered market a tourist trap. Based on facts, however, Mar...

Pig City video installation will be shown as part of Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture and New Media after the Anthropocene MAAT’s first collaboration with several European museums opening on 11th April 2018. Eco-Visionaries launches the debate on a vas...

Last week at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Bałtyk was announced as Best Building for 2017 in the Polska Architektura XXL prize.The jury chose Bałtyk as the winner of the Grand Prix main prize for the best project realised in Poland in the last year. Sinc...

We are delighted the (W)ego has been awarded one of the Architectural Media Jury Award awards at the 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) with the theme - Cities, Grow in Difference which concluded at its main exhibition venue Nantou Old Town on Marc...

Held in Amsterdam this year, the World Architecture Festival awards sit at the heart of the festival, the only global awards programme where architects present their completed buildings and future projects live to a panel of internationally renowned judges and delegates from...

We congratulate Het Nieuwe Instituut for receiving an 11-million euro grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to preserve and maintain its architectural collection.The architecture collection is also home to MVRDV's archive, the first major archive to ...

We congratulate the city of Seoul and Mayor Park Won-soon on the announcement that the city of Seoul has been awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2018.The jury mentioned notably the contribution of the city for its reclamation of public space for peopl...

We are thrilled Skygarden won the 'Best Urban Practice' category at this year's IDEAT Future Award held during the Design Shanghai event. The award recognises projects which inspire us and enhance our lives. IDEAT CHINA has rapidly established its reputation since its l...

Lyon Part-Dieu, MVRDV’s competition-winning design to transform the city’s shopping centre begins its construction. The 166,000m2 complex will be transformed from an introverted complex built for the car century into a mixture of commercial, leisure and a new public s...

MVRDV supports the ambition towards circular construction and the circular economy as stated by the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) and the larger ambition of the Netherlands government “Nederland Circulair in 2050”. As a practice devoted to being part ...

Bart Brouwers, co-founder and co-owner of Media52 BV, publisher of e52.nl wrote an article on Winy Maas's future vision for Eindhoven following a talk he gave recently to members of Eindhoven city council and a public audience at the City's Town Hall. To read ...

MVRDV co-founder, Jacob van Rijs with Director of French Projects, Bertrand Schippan, Business Development Managers, Chloé Eynard and Bart Dankers will be present at this year's MIPIM event taking place in Cannes between 13-16 March. There will also be client presenta...

We are delighted Jut Group Lecture hall, designed by MVRDV in collaboration with artist Alexandra Kehayoglou won the jury prize for 'Best Craftsmanship'  in this year's inaugural Frame Awards. MVRDV’s transformation of Jut Group's new 240m2lecture hall takes into ...

MVRDV has been selected by Maarsen Groep for a new 50,000 m2 mixed-use tower complex marking the third phase of the Weenapoint development in Rotterdam’s Central District.  The complex will consist of approximately 17,000 m2 of offices, a transparent commercial plinth ...

We are thrilled to announce Bałtyk has won the best office building category at the Property Design Awards 2018.The ceremony took place at the International Congress Center in Katowice during the 4 Design Days architecture festival and ten category and special...

MVRDV begins construction on Gaité Montparnasse, a 108,000m2 mixed-use transformation that will add a new program on the large roof of the Unibail-Rodamco owned shopping centre Les Ateliers Gaité to include a hotel, offices, 62 social housing units and a 350m2 kinde...

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen produced the first issue of a bi-annual journal updating on the progress of the collection building. The journal is available in Rotterdam so be sure to keep your eyes out for a copy at the museum and Rotterdam Tourist Information locations...

Azure Magazine lists Tianjin Binhai Library as part of a Cultural Revolution and architectural projects that are defining our built environment.Other projects in the Icons issue include:Rojkind Arquitectos's masterful concert hall on the Gulf of MexicoAn art gallery by Patkau Arc...

MVRDV wish all our clients, collaborators and friends in China a Happy New Year!

MVRDV的“黎明之桥”方案近日在上海青浦古镇桥梁竞赛中中标，将打造一个跨越80米宽河道的人行和车行两用跨河桥梁，它被视作古镇的新地标，也将激发日常社交活动。新桥梁毗邻上海的朱家角古镇，位于著名的放生桥和珠溪路桥之间。“黎明之桥”将是一座全新的人行及车行两用桥，以连接淀浦河沿岸的现代住宅区和朱家角古镇。约24米宽的新跨河桥象征着古镇全新的未来，也给周边区域带来新的社会意义和价值，激活临河的社区活动。项目预计于2018年夏季开始施工。  “黎明之桥”坐落于朱家角古镇...

MVRDV announced today that Jeroen Zuidgeest, Partner, will leave the practice at the end of March 2018 and a search is underway for a new head of department. Jeroen joined MVRDV in 1999 as an architect and became a project leader, head of department and partner whilst working on ...

MVRDV’s designs for offices and retail spaces in Łódź introduces a contemporary design to the third city of Poland. The 31,000m2,  13-floor high building integrates to its newly developed surroundings with a distinct glazed brick and glass façade, surroun...

Tianjin Binhai Library and Seoul Skygarden are select as the last 75 finalists for ArchDaily’s Building of the Year 2018.As the world’s largest platform for architecture, ArchDaily's mission is directly related to the architecture of the future—in inspiring and ...