Commissioned by the Port Authority of Rotterdam, Portlantis gives insight into the intricate workings of the Dutch city’s harbor. The recently inaugurated building – all of 3,533 square meters – is a stack of five rotated blocks that, besides providi
The Cabonon is a fully equipped apartment with a floor area of just 6.89 square meters, including an infrared sauna and a whirlpool bath. Its inside dimension are: height 3 meters, width 1.97, length 3.6. A large window overlooks the city. The Cabano
Built in 1988 as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, the Pyramid of Tirana has been converted by the Rotterdam firm MVRDV into a cultural center. Located in the heart of the Albanian capital, it has reopened with the original co
In Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the development called Eagle + West presents two high-rises which complement one another and a smaller third building. The towers – rising 30 and 40 floors – inclu
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
To go unnoticed but without sacrificing an architectural language of strong personality: this was the fundamental consideration in the course of designing the villa in Vught, a municipality in the southern Netherlands. To this end, rather than concen
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.
Right at the intersection of two major urban axes rises this iconic tower of mixed uses that include offices, hotel accommodation, a restaurant, and retail spaces within the plinth.
Consisting of two buildings, one harboring a nightclub and the other an indoor theme park, the project is part of a whole leisure complex next to the country’s main airport.
Surrounding a spherical auditorium, the main reading area presents a tapestry of curving bookshelves that cascade in terraces from the ceiling all the way down to the floor.
Surrounded by an extraordinary landscape of polders, the building rises like a vertical sea vessel whose glass walls engage in a dialogue with the typical changing Dutch atmosphere.
At a height of 125 and 110 meters, respectively, the Innovationen and Helix towers are the highest residential buildings in Stockholm. Located in Hagastaden, a new district in the north of the capital developed around the Karolinska Institute (which
3D-printed bioplastic and a tense textile structure are combined in the design of a sculptural and distinctive facade, inspired in traditional sailboats, for this temporary construction built to host meetings of the European Union’s Presidential Coun
Located in the very heart of Seoul, an overpass for vehicles, 16 meters high at its highest and built with steel and reinforced concrete, has been transformed into a huge elevated walkway almost a kilometer long that is part of an ambitious project t
Located between Roskilde city center and the site where the music festival of the same name takes place yearly, the Rockmagneten is an art and culture center that takes up an old factory. The brief demanded preserving the existing building – already
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
De Rotterdam is conceived as a vertical city: three interconnected mixed-use towers accommodating offices, apartments, a hotel, conference facilities, shops, restaurants, and cafes. The towers are part of the ongoing redevelopment of the old harbor d
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
Almost thirty years ago MVRDV leaped to fame thanks, among other things, to its uninhibited way of crystallizing the diagrams of uses in constructions of a public nature. After all this time it seems that the formula still works, as we can see in the
In the port city of Tianjin (population 15.47 million), the Dutch firm MVRDV recently completed an immense library with a huge inner eye that can be glimpsed from the street and which, being so spectacularly disturbing, reminds one of the eye of Suar
