News MVRDV designs shipping container sports club for Jordanian refugee camp Dutch architect MVRDV has developed a modular clubhouse for the Azraq camp in Jordan, which is home to about 41,000 refugees from the fighting in Syria. The idea is to…
News MVRDV designs China’s badminton headquarters with racket roof and shuttlecock tower Dutch firm MVRDV and China’s Huayi Design have won a competition to design the Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park. This complex will be the home of China’s national badminton team, and…
News MVRDV completes pixellated Abu Dhabi neighbourhood Construction has been completed on Pixel, a 85,000 sq m mixed-use development designed by Dutch architect MVRDV in Abu Dhabi. At the centre of the project is a communal plaza…
News Tiffany & Co Shanghai branch contains “diamond” encrusted façade by MVRDV Dutch architect MVRDV has designed a façade for a Tiffany shop in a Shanghai retail development bejeweled by 6,988 handcrafted glass “diamonds”. The shop is located in Taikoo-Li Qiantan retail…
News MVRDV transforms 19th-century Amsterdam building into EV outlet Chinese EV-maker Nio has opened a flagship European showroom in a 19th-century insurance building in Amsterdam. The building on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht was built in 1891 for the New York Life…
News Mixed-use project transforms Eindhoven factory Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its design for Strijp-S Tribune, a stepped, eight-storey-tall mixed-use building in Eindhoven. MVRDV designed the project for housing association Trudo, with 56 units that are…
News MVRDV designs 11 Shenzhen towers for Chinese tech company Tencent Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its design for Tencent P5, a residential development in Shenzhen’s Qianhai bay containing 11 apartment towers and a kindergarten arranged around four courtyards. The development…
News MVRDV designs Berlin office and residential campus Construction has begun on a 61,200 sq m mixed-use development in the eastern Friedrichshain district of Berlin, designed by Dutch architect MVRDV. The LXK Office and Residential Campus is formed…
News Architects turn Shanghai cement factory into new culture district Dutch-headquartered architect MVRDV has unveiled plans for a 34,000-sq-m leisure and culture district on Shanghai’s waterfront, which it designed with Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus. The “Gate M…
News MVRDV designs 150m tower for Sichuan software park Dutch architect MVRDV has won a competition to design two buildings for Tianfu Software Park in Chengdu, central China. One is a 150m-tall office tower that will be the centrepiece…
News Former factory and warehouse transformed into Dutch innovation district A former business park in the northeastern Dutch city of Zwolle will be transformed into an “innovation district” known as WärtZ. It will cover 9.5ha and will containing 850 homes…
News Nineties Berlin film studio has sequel as bright yellow office building Construction has been completed on the redevelopment of a Berlin film studio into offices, designed by Dutch architect MVRDV and Germany’s Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. The Berliner Union Film Ateliers, a…
News Dutch team design buildings for future Kyiv district A team made up of Dutch firms MVRDV and Orange Architects has revealed designs for three buildings in Nuvo, a mixed-use project that will be built on a former industrial…
News Work begins on MVRDV’s ‘urban oasis’ in Paris Construction has begun – and the first trees have been planted – at an 18-storey apartment block in the southwest suburbs of Paris. The “urban oasis” in Issy-les-Moulineaux was designed…
News “Healing” medical training facility for University of Toronto Dutch architect MVRDV and Canada’s Diamond Schmitt have designed a building for the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus. The project will give the Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health…
News MVRDV’s ‘Czech lantern’ design chosen for Prague airport extension Dutch architect MVRDV and Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO) have won a competition to design a three-building extension to Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague. Two buildings will contain a security area,…
News MVRDV reveals its redevelopment masterplan for Brussels’ Tour & Taxi area Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its masterplan for a redevelopment of the Tour & Taxi industrial area on the banks of the Brussels canal in the north of the Belgian…
News Unoccupied Shenzhen tower transformed into women and children’s centre Construction has been completed on Shenzhen’s Women & Children’s Centre, a previously unoccupied 100m-tall tower that has been transformed into a colourful skyscraper by Dutch architect MVRDV. Originally opened in…