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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.
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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.
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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
News • News • 24 Mar 2023
Door MVRDV ontworpen NIO House in Rotterdam geopend
A multifunctional showroom for electric car brand NIO opened in Rotterdam on Thursday. The Chinese car brand's first Dutch branch on the Meent was designed by MVRDV. The interior of the NIO House combined the "Rotterdam rawness" with the company's minimalist aesthetic with warm touches.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
In addition to a car showroom, NIO House consists of a café, living room, children's play area, gallery, forum for presentations and work space. Through large windows, the showroom opens onto both streets on which the corner building is located. By opening the sliding windows in the side façade, interior and exterior literally blend together here.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
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News • News • 15 Nov 2022
MVRDV completes the dramatic transformation of a 1970s city block in Paris
In the Paris neighbourhood of Montparnasse, the now completed Gaîté Montparnasse by MVRDV is a complete transformation of a mixed-used block dating from 1974. The project retains and rationalizes previously existing uses such as a hotel, shopping centre, offices, and a library while densifying the construction with the addition of social housing and a kindergarten. And in addition to providing a more welcoming and accessible environment for pedestrians, the project also embraces the circular economy throughout, particularly with the retention of significant portions of the previous structure.
Ossip van Duivenbode
The original design of “Îlot Vandamme” by Pierre Dufau was a landmark of its day. Sitting on a pli... More
News • News • 3 Aug 2022
Making infrastructure do more: MVRDV and StudioPOD complete One Green Mile in Mumbai
Recently completed in Mumbai, the One Green Mile project by MVRD and StudioPOD transforms a series of neglected spaces below the city’s Senapati Bapat Marg flyover into public space for the entire local community. In addition to adding much-needed greenspace and amenities, the project improves mobility and brings a strong visual identity to the area. On a broader scale, One Green Mile presents a sustainable urban development model and illustrates how underused urban space can be reimagined.
Suleiman Merchant
The Senapati Bapat Marg flyover is part of a series of major roads that extend for over eleven kilometers. The infrastructure generates significant noise pollution, creates a barrier between neighboring areas, and limits m... More
News • News • 16 Dec 2021
Dramatic Bulgari flagship by MVRDV showcases a green, jade-like facade of recycled champagne and beer bottles
Rotterdam based architecture and urbanism practice MVRDV have unveiled their most recent collaboration with luxury jewellery brand Bulgari in the form of a dramatic flagship store in Shanghai. Located on Nanjing Road at the popular and upscale Shanghai Plaza 66, the store is distinguished by a green, jade-like façade made from recycled champagne and beer bottles.
Bulgari
The façade is inspired both by the Art Deco architecture which became prominent throughout Shanghai in the early 20th century when it's status as a key port connecting the East and West was established, as well as Bulgari's Déco collection which characterised its jewellery in the same period. The design also pays homage to the brand's Itali... More
Project • By mode:lina™ • Bars
Concordia Design Wrocław - bar and terrace
Wyspa Słodowa is quite unique spot on Wroclaw’s plan. For years it has been a centre of various events organized, independently, with help of local visual artists and musicians. Concordia Design building, conjured by the brilliant minds of MVRDV only fleshes out that uniqueness.
To arrange one of the most demanding parts of the building - void (the undercut), the Investor asked for help none other than mode:lina™ designers.
Our prime goal was to keep the idea of architecture’s complete immersion, while at the same time leaving enough space for comfy, intimate spaces for various meetings, informal gatherings and work - Paweł Garus, architect and co-owner in mode:lina™.
A big void (undercut) is a space, widely open... More
WERK12
Forming the nucleus of the Werksviertel-Mitte district, an urban regeneration plan on a former industrial site, the 7,700m2 mixed-used development located close to Munich’s East Station stands out with its bold and expressive art façade featuring five-metre-tall verbal expressions found in German comics.
WERK12 stands out with its bold and expressive art façade featuring five-metre-tall verbal expressions found in German comics. Image: © Ossip van Duivenbode
The design of WERK12 combines a simple form, honest materials, and transparent façades. Users can move around the building in multiple ways: the design’s external circulation core on the building’s northeastern side is supplemented by 3.... More