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post updated 22 February 2026
11 February 2026
Pujiang Platform, Chengdu, China
photo : Arch-Exist
17 January 2026
Inaura Dubai urban tower, UAE
photo © MVRDV
13 January 2026
Tiffany Façade Beijing, Beijing, Northern China
photo © Tiffany & Co.
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MVRDV Architects News in 2025
MVRDV Architects News in 2025, chronological:
11 December 2025
Plum Village Buddhist Monastery, Dordogne, France
26 November 2025
Irwell Hill Residences, Singapore
30 October 2025
The Sax, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
renders : Proloog, MVRDV
29 August 2025
Nature Rocks, Pingtung County, southern Taiwan tourist facilities, Taiwan
Architects: MVRDV and HWC Architects
image : MVRDV
23 July 2025
GATE M West Bund Dream Center, Shanghai, China
photo © Sanqian Visual Image Art
7 May 2025
SOMBRA pavilion, Venice, Italy
photo © Jaap Heemskerk
28 March 2025
Market Cube, Zhubei, North District, Taiwan
image © MVRDV
17 February 2025
Mega Mat, Laan Kon Muang Plaza – Bangkok Design Week, Thailand
photo : Depth of Field Co.,Ltd.
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MVRDV Architects News in 2024
MVRDV Architects News
17 October 2024
Tripolis Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
photo © Ossip van Duivenbode
14 September 2024
Buitenplaats Koningsweg Housing, Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
photo © Daria Scagliola
5 July 2024
Diamond-encrusted façade for Tiffany & Co. store, Shanghai, China
photo © Wen Studio
Located in the Taikoo-Li Qiantan retail development, Tiffany & Co.’s store in Shanghai features a jewel-inspired façade designed by MVRDV. With an external screen composed of 6,988 handcrafted glass “diamonds”, the façade evokes clear associations to Tiffany’s renowned jewellery designs. During the day, these elements reflect and refract the surroundings, resulting in a glittering effect, while at night the façade’s LED lighting allows the store to shine in an infinite range of colours.
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MVRDV News in 2023
21 November 2023
La Serre, ZAC Léon Blum eco-district, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
Design: MVRDV
image © ENGRAM
25 May 2023
Ziel Montevideo homes, next to the Villa Biarritz park, Punta Carretas neighbourhood, Montevideo, Uruguay
images © MVRDV
The construction permit for MVRDV’s 15-storey residential building in Montevideo, Uruguay has been approved. Comprising a loosely-stacked series of individual homes, the design is open and porous, allowing light and air to permeate the entire building and creating plenty of open and green spaces for residents of all ages to enjoy and share. Named Ziel, the project – designed for developer IXOU, in collaboration with executive architect Monoblock – is MVRDV’s first in Uruguay.
5 Apr 2023
Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
render © MVRDV
Circumscribing the campus buildings is a 1.2-kilometre-long path that incorporates various activities that animate the campus, including a sprint track, skate park, tribune, and viewpoints to the surroundings. Inside the platonic shape, the masterplan is simple, flexible, and sustainable.
21 Mar 2023
Hyde Park, Hoofddorp Station District Amsterdam, North-Holland, The Netherlands
render : MVRDV
21 Feb 2023
Tainan Wholesale Market Southern Taiwan, Tainan City
photo © Shephotoerd
A wholesale market in Tainan with publicly accessible roof.
3 Jan 2023
Hoowave Water Factory Huwei, Huwei, Taiwan
image © MVRDV
More MVRDV architects designs on e-architect soon.
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MVRDV News in 2022
MVRDV Architects News in 2022
23 December 2022
A look at MVRDV’s upcoming project completions in 2023
image © Pixelflakes
With the end of 2022 in sight, it’s natural to look back on the past year. For MVRDV, they look back on 15 completed projects, including six openings and three temporary installations in countries around the world:
MVRDV Architects Studio News
21 Dec 2022
Project Gomila, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Design: MVRDV with GRAS Reynés Arquitectos
photograph © Daria Scagliola
24 Oct 2022
La Part Dieu Shopping Center Lyon
photo © Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV has completed the transformation of La Part-Dieu urban shopping centre in Lyon, France. The project has transformed the original building from the 1970s, “re-socialising” the shopping centre and transforming Lyon’s city centre.
19 Sep 2022
Valley Mixed-Use Development, Zuidas, The Netherlands
image Courtesy architecture office
16 Jun 2022
Centraal Beheer Building Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
photo courtesy of Certitudo Capital – An aerial view of the Centraal Beheer building and the Pakhoedtorens taken in 2015
2 June 2022
The Podium on Het Nieuwe Instituut roof, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
photo © Ossip van Duivenbode
The mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb opened The Podium in a ceremony at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Designed by MVRDV, the 29-metre-high platform makes the roof of the museum accessible via a 143-step external staircase.
26 May 2022
Rotterdam Rooftop Walk by MVRDV, over the Coolsingel, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Design: Rotterdam Rooftop Days and MVRDV
photo © Ossip van Duivenbode
The Rooftop Walk aims to give the public a new perspective on the city. The extensive programming should increase visitors’ awareness of the potential of roofs, which can become a “second layer” that makes the city more liveable, biodiverse, sustainable, and healthy.
13 Apr 2022
Floriade-2022 Expo Almere masterplan, The Netherlands
photo © Walter Herfst
The Floriade Expo 2022, the International Horticultural Exhibition held in the Netherlands once every 10 years, opens in Almere in April. For six months, the 60-hectare Floriade park on the Weerwater will showcase the latest horticultural developments from around the world.
17 Mar 2022
Project Gomila, Palma, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, southeastern Spain
Architect: MVRDV and GRAS Reynés Arquitectos
images © MVRDV + GRAS
The plan renovates four existing buildings and adds three new ones to reinvigorate El Terreno as a vibrant, green, sustainable residential neighbourhood. Each of the buildings have their own unique character derived from their colours, materials, and rooflines, together forming a distinctive place that is in tune with the Mediterranean lifestyle.
28 Feb 2022
Rotterdam Architecture Month 2022, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
image © MVRDV
Rotterdam is gaining a unique, temporary vantage point this summer. It is an urban podium on the roof of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
17 Jan 2022
Sun Rock in Taichung, Taiwan
image © MVRDV
Located at the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, near to Taichung, the building’s primary purpose is for the storage and maintenance of sustainable energy equipment. The site for Taipower’s new facility receives a significant amount of solar exposure throughout the year, and so the rounded shape of Sun Rock is designed to maximise how much of that sunlight can be harnessed for energy.
12 Jan 2022
Gagarin Valley Vision by MVRDV, Yerevan, Armenia
image © MVRDV
Gagarin Valley vision for Armenian non-profit organisation DAR Foundation for Regional Development and Competitiveness. This master plan will make the 34,000-hectare area more sustainable and ecologically diverse.
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Architecture Studio Updates in 2021
MVRDV Architects News in 2021
12 Dec 2021
Bulgari Shanghai retail façade design by MVRDV, Shanghai, China
photograph © Bulgari
The new store features a green, jade-like façade made from brass and recycled champagne, beer, and other glass bottles.
25 Nov 2021
Idea Factory Nantou, Shenzhen, China
photo © Xia Zhi 夏至
23 Nov 2021
‘O’ Franklin Mitte, Mannheim, Germany
image © MVRDV
The first apartment sales close for the ‘O’, a German high-rise. One of four letter-shaped apartment buildings that together spell out the word HOME – one of the standout elements of Mannheim’s Franklin Mitte neighbourhood.
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Architecture Studio Updates Archive
MVRDV Architects News in 2018 to 2020
Oct 1, 2020
Glass Mural Detroit, Michigan, USA
photo : MVRDV
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11 Nov 2019
The Imprint at Paradise City in Seoul, South Korea
photograph © Ossip van Duivenbode
Featuring a nightclub in one building and indoor theme park in the other, the windowless structures feature three key design elements: imprints of the façade features of surrounding buildings, lifted entrances, and a golden entrance spot covering one corner of the nightclub building.
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MVRDV Architects News 2018 – latest additions to this page, chronological:
15 Sep 2018
San Francisco Bay Area Recommendations by MVRDV, CA, USA
image © 2018 Kubany Judlowe
At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, the Dutch architecture studio presented a new report titled ‘Too Much + Too Little’ that offers 5 recommendations to Bay Area officials on the region’s plans for a resilient future.
30 Jul 2018
The Stack for Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Architects: MVRDV and Woods Bagot
image courtesy of architects office
A “new kind of skyscraper” is proposed for a landmark mixed-use site in Melbourne’s Southbank. The Stack is one of six invited entries in an architectural competition organised by site owners Beulah International, a Melbourne-based developer known for its commitment to excellence in local design.
17 May 2018
MVRDV opens new Paris office
France has become an important country for MVRDV. In fifteen years, the Rotterdam practice realised various projects in France. For example, Pushed Slab (2014), a large office complex in Paris and the transformation of the Teletech Campus (2012) in Dijon.
In 2009 MVRDV, in collaboration with ACS Architects, Palo Alto, and AAF Architects and Urbanists, Paris, the firm took on the challenge of the then-president Nicolas Sarkozy to devise a masterplan for Paris and its suburbs. This resulted in Grand Paris, an urban vision for 2030. “We have already worked for a long time and intensely in France. We want to deepen that love with our presence,” says Winy Maas, co-founder, MVRDV.
2018 looks promising: a start has been made with the reconstruction of the Part-Dieu shopping centre in Lyon, and with the extensive renovation of the Gaite-Montparnasse shopping centre in Paris, a porous façade connecting the mall to the street, library and station. For Bordeaux and Rennes, MVRDV designed striking apartment complexes situated next to the waterfront. The construction of Maison du Projet in Bordeaux and Ilot l’Octroi in Rennes will commence later this year.
By opening an office in Paris alongside a head office in Rotterdam and an office in Shanghai, MVRDV wants to strengthen its presence in France and provide a solid basis for future assignments. The new office will be led by architect Bertrand Schippan, who was involved in various French projects, and it is located near the famous Marché de Montorgueil in a six-storey Art Nouveau building from 1905 that was designed by Gustave Eiffel.
27 Feb 2018
Gaité Montparnasse Development, Paris, France
image © L’Autre Image
26 Feb 2018
Weenapoint Complex, Rottterdam, The Netherlands
image courtesy of architects office
8 Feb 2018
Fabryczna Offices Lódz, central Poland
Design: MVRDV, Architects with Piotr Bilinski Architects
image courtesy of architects office
7 Feb 2018
The Milestone Building, Esslingen, Germany
image courtesy of architects
The building will literally be a milestone, its façade designed like a crystal rock is interactive and carries the topography of the town and messages about the history and people of Esslingen.
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7 Nov 2017
Tianjin Binhai Public Library Building, China
photo : Ossip van Duivenbode
This new building is a 33,700 sqm cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium around which floor-to-ceiling bookcases cascade. The undulating bookshelf is the building’s main spatial device and is used both to frame the space and to create stairs, seating, the layered ceiling and even louvres on the façade.
2 Nov 2017
The Why Factory Exhibition Milan – Research, Education and Public Engagement – TU Delft + MVRDV
Location: SpazioFMG per l’Architettura, Milan, Italy
Dates: 8 Nov – 1 Dec 2017
photo : Frans Parthesius
6 Sep 2017
Magasin 113 Gothenburg, Sweden
Design: MVRDV and BSK Arkitekter
image courtesy of architectural office
Vision for a former warehouse: transformation into a 16,500sqm mixed-use building located in Frihamnen RiverCity. It is one of the few remaining multi-story warehouses in this Swedish city.
5 Sep 2017
Valley Towers by MVRDV at Amsterdam CBD Zuidas, Netherlands
picture courtesy of architecture office
A 75,000m2, green-terraced, mixed-use building on the Amsterdam’s Central Business District Zuidas. The design for OVG Real Estate will include apartments, offices, an underground parking, a sky bar and various retail and cultural facilities.
1 Aug 2017
The Sax in Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
images courtesy of MVRDV and WAX Architectural Visualisations
Development partners BPD Bouwfonds Property Development, Ontwikkeling B.V. and SYNCHROON Ontwikkelaars in consultation with the municipality of Rotterdam, have been working since 2015 on the development of residential buildings Philadelphia & Havana.
15 Jun 2017
Ilot Queyries Mixed-Use Development, Bordeaux, France
image : MVRDV
Designed to fully exploit this exceptional location, Ilot Queyries’ facades adapt to their opposite views towards the River Garonne and the historic city.
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1 Dec 2016
Y House by MVRDV, Northeast Tainan, Taiwan
image : MVRDV
A private villa offering escapism from city life and a sky-high rooftop swimming pool.
10 Oct 2016
MVRDV win competition for Xili sports and cultural centre Shenzhen
Design: MVRDV with Zhubo Architecture Design
image : MVRDV
Xili Sports and Cultural Centre Shenzhen
13 Sep 2016
Hamburg Innovation Port Master Plan, Germany
Design: MVRDV with morePlatz
image : MVRDV
31 + 29 Aug 2016
Glasgow City Centre Regeneration Strategy, Scotland
Glasgow City Council launch the latest phase of a 10-year city centre regeneration strategy by MVRDV and Austin-Smith:Lord.
Regeneration work will focus on nine districts: Anderston ; Broomielaw ; Centre ; Cowcaddens ; Merchant City and High Street ; Sauchiehall ; St Enoch ; Townhead ; University and Cathedral.
MVRDV have a worldwide reputation for freethinking, innovative design. Designs by these Dutch architects are often exuberant. It will be interesting to see how they can weave fresh ideas into this civic renewal.
Given the amount of public realm involved one might have expected input from practices such as Gehl Architects (Jan Gehl, architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen) or GROSS MAX (Edinburgh-based award-winning landscape architects with a reputation for work at the cutting edge of landscape design).
However Austin-Smith:Lord (offices across the UK) has a good pedigree in civic renewal. The Glasgow studio was responsible for the award-winning revitalised town centre public realm in Helensburgh.
Initial consultations for the Sauchiehall district outlined the need for an urban park over the M8 near Charing Cross, providing better cycle and pedestrian access.
The focus now switches to Broomielaw, Blythswood, Central and St. Enoch.
Stakeholders are invited to bring forward ideas and opinions to Winy Mass of MVRDV and Graham Ross of Austin-Smith:Lord.
Ref. news further down this page dated 3 + 2 May 2016
18 Jul 2016
MVRDV House – Our House in the Middle of the Street, Rotterdam, Netherlands
photograph © Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV House Rotterdam
MVRDV has moved into the MVRDV House, their new offices in central Rotterdam, marking a new chapter for the expanding architectural practice. The new location, in the iconic post-war monument Het Industriegebouw, is situated in the heart of Rotterdam’s city centre and close to the architecture firm’s Markthal.
23 Jun 2016
Tianjin Binhai Library Building, China
image from architects firm
3 + 2 May 2016
Glasgow City Centre District Regeneration Frameworks, Scotland
MVRDV and Austin-Smith:Lord to lead regeneration of Glasgow’s City Centre Districts
image from architectural office
Winy Maas of MVRDV said, “We have an incredibly exciting opportunity to further elaborate Glasgow centre’s potential on every scale. For the residents it is to make the city a vibrant and exciting place to live in at this moment.”
20 Apr 2016
Crystal Houses Amsterdam, the Netherlands
photography : Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakkee
Flagship store with a replica façade made entirely out of glass, a visionary exploration into reimagining the possible uses of glass in construction. The entirely transparent façade of a high-end flagship store on Amsterdam’s upmarket shopping street, PC Hooftstraat, uses glass bricks, glass windows frames and glass architraves.
7 Apr 2016
The Stairs in Rotterdam from Stationsplein to top of Groot Handelsgebouw, the Netherlands
image : Frank van Dam/MVRDV
The arrival of The Stairs follows the Rotterdam tradition of celebrating reconstruction milestones. Large cultural events often provide beautiful vantage points, such as the Euromast and reconstruction event C70.
1 Mar 2016
Shopping Centre Part-Dieu in Lyon, France
image from architect
8 Feb 2016
La Grande Mosaique in Caen urban plan, Normandy, France
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20 Nov 2015
Tainan Urban Lagoon by MVRDV, Taiwan
Design: MVRDV / The Urbanist Collaborative / LLJ Architects
16 Nov 2015
The Why Factory Research on Nanotechnology in Architecture
Is the end of brick and mortar near? How could nanotechnology change buildings and cities in the future?
image by architects
More modern architectural projects by MVRDV online soon.
MVRDV Architects – older building projects + alphabetical list
Location: Dunantstraat 10 3024 BC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe.
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Rotterdam Architecture Practice Information
MVRDV Architects Background
1984-1990 – Technical University Delft, Faculty of Construction, Engineering, Departments of Architecture and Urban Design
1991 – Winy Maas co-founded MVRDV with Jacoiv van Rijs & Natalie de Vries – the ‘Office of Architecture and Urbanism’ in Rotterdam. He worked with Unesco and with OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture) in Rotterdam.
Winy Maas teaches and lectures at the Architectural Association, London, the Technical University, Delft, the Berlage Institute, Amsterdam, and the Academies of Architecture and Urban Planning in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
MVRDV
Architects office based in Rotterdam
Dutch design studio founded in 1990/91 after winning first prize in Berlin Europan Competition
Website: www.mvrdv.nl
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