La Part Dieu Shopping Center Lyon: MVRDV

La Part Dieu Shopping Center Lyon

La Part Dieu Shopping Center Lyon, France, design by MVRDV architects transforms the original building from the 1970s, “re-socialising” the shopping centre and transforming Lyon’s city centre

Market Hall in Rotterdam Building by MVRDV

Market Hall in Rotterdam

Design: MVRDV, Architects – new photos. The first covered food-market of the Netherlands and a new urban typology combining living with shopping. The walls and roof are an arch of 228 apartments. Inside the arch is the art work ‘Cornucopia’, the largest art piece in the Netherlands.

Tianjin Binhai Library, China: MVRDV

Tianjin Binhai Library

Tianjin Binhai Public Library has been completed. MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library, a 33,700 sqm cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium around which floor-to-ceiling bookcases cascade.