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 ...

The Milestone is a new 6,500m2 mixed-use office building by MVRDV with a distinct part-reflective façade and open geometric core which has been selected by a jury for the city of Esslingen. The building will literally be a milestone, its façade designed like a cryst...

MVRDV in the HASSELL+ team (HASSELL, Deltares, Goudappel, Lotus Water, Hatch, Civic Edge, Idyllist and Page & Turnbull) are through to the next phase of the  Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge with the allocated site of San Mateo County. The team will now apply its &...

GK Osnova has announced MVRDV as a winner of the international design competition for the mixed-use complex in the city centre of Moscow. Silhouette takes inspiration from neighbouring constructivist buildings and is a new 52,000m2 contemporary mixed-use complex exploring geometr...

Following on from “Landskating” and “La Boîte de Nuit”, Villa Noailles continues its exploration of cultural architectures specific to spaces intended for entertainment and leisure.The 2018 architecture exhibition, “Domestic Pools”, will ...

To The Honourable Mr Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, It is with pleasure that I respond to the call to architects by Het Nieuwe Instituut and Storefront Gallery for Architecture in New York to write a letter to the mayor of their hometown. This year, 2017, you were so ki...

MVRDV have been shortlisted as part of the HASSELL+ team (HASSELL, Deltares, Goudappel, Lotus Water, Civic Edge, Idyllist, Hatch and Page & Turnbull) for the second round of the  Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge and allocated the site of San Mateo County. The HASSE...

Ragnarock has been nominated for the RENOVER prize which pays tribute to Denmark's best renovation projects. The ambition of the award is to provide the visibility and recognition that the architectural discipline deserves by emphasizing outstanding renovation proj...

MVRDV's Jut Group Lecture Hall with a commissioned wall-covering artwork by Argentinian textile artist, Alexandra Kehayoglou has been shortlisted for the category - Best Craftsmanship in the Frame Awards 2018. The Frame Awards cover the entire spectrum of...

2017 has been a year of growth, change, and excitement at MVRDV. Early in the year we celebrated the official opening of our MVRDV House, welcoming family and friends both old and new to share in the celebration of this significant milestone. To see our first staff members a...

MVRDV and The Why Factory stage a series of interventions for the seventh Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) (UABB) jointly curated by curator and critic, Hou Hanrou and founding partners of URBANUS, Liu Xiaodu and Meng Yan (in alphabetic order). The Biennale&rs...