New Atlas

MVRDV’s green-roofed development will provide escape from city bustle

With its mixed-use Shenzhen Terraces development, influential Dutch firm MVRDV aims to offer a pleasant escape from the bustle of urban life in skyscraper-filled megacity Shenzhen, China. The project ...
New Atlas

MVRDV's spectral Glass Farm echoes traditional local architecture

When I first glimpsed the photos of MVRDV's Glass Farm, I misapprehended it. I assumed I was looking at an ordinary brick building which, in an act of willful capriciousness (you know how architects ...
ArchDaily

MVRDV References Moscow's Historic Architecture with Competition-Winning Mixed-Use Design

MVRDV has been selected as the winner of an international competition for a new mixed-use complex to be located near several important historic buildings in the city center of Moscow, Russia. Known as ...
Inhabitat

MVRDV designs solar-powered “KoolKiel” with Jenga-like architecture in Germany

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has unveiled plans to redevelop a post-industrial city block in Kiel, Germany, into an eye-catching, mixed-use complex that matches the creative spirit of the site’s ...
Inhabitat

MVRDV introduces a psychedelic blend of art and architecture in Paradise City

Dutch design firm MVRDV recently completed its latest project: The Imprint, an art-entertainment complex near Seoul’s Incheon Airport that toes the line between art and architecture. Completed as part ...
Architectural Digest

MVRDV Is Set to Revamp Lyon’s Part-Dieu, Europe’s Largest Downtown Shopping Center

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV recently unveiled its plans for renovating the popular Part-Dieu shopping center in Lyon, France. Located across from the city’s bustling Part-Dieu train station, the ...
archpaper

MVRDV and Orange Architects unveil designs for Nuvo, a new mixed-use district in central Kyiv, despite ongoing war

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine commenced on February 25, 2022, development in Kyiv came to a standstill. This November, MVRDV and Rotterdam-based Orange Architects unveiled renderings of ...
ArchDaily

In Defense of Renders and Trees On Top of Skyscrapers

MVRDV's proposal for Ravel Plaza in Amsterdam. Image © A2 Studio We'd like to discuss this common critique. The point of the role of visualizations in our ...
archpaper

After nine years, MVRDV reclaims architecture's coveted ArchiCup, beating Mecanoo, West 8, OMA, and others an the annual soccer matchup

After a seemingly never ending nine-year wait, Dutch architecture firm MVRDV finally reclaimed the ArchiCup in Rotterdam after a contentious soccer matchup. Organized by GROUPA and Bekkering Adams ...
Architectural Digest

MVRDV and COBE Complete a Gold Studded Rock and Roll Museum in Denmark

Rising conspicuously from a former industrial site in the town of Roskilde, Denmark, a new museum of pop and rock music exudes all the swagger and wanton glamour of the iconic front men and guitar ...