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…
News Construction begins on MVRDV’s centre for Taiwan’s energy supplier Construction has begun on an operations centre designed by Dutch architect MVRDV for Taiwan’s state-owned energy supplier Located in the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, near to Taichung City in western…
News San Francisco gets “Canyon” tower with a public ravine The Canyon, a 23-storey mixed-use building in San Francisco designed by Dutch architect MVRDV has opened to its first residents in a ceremony attended by San Francisco Mayor London Breed.…
News Work begins on MVRDV’s village amongst towers in Chengdu’s CBD Construction has begun on the 154,700-sq-m Chengdu Jiaozi Courtyard Towers, occupying the last empty site of the city’s Jiaozi Park Financial and Business District. Comprising three office towers measuring 80m,…
News MVRDV’s demountable Amsterdam Science Park complex is completed Construction has been completed on Matrix One, a six-storey, 13,000 sq m office and laboratory building with an open staircase, located in Amsterdam’s Science Park. The design by Dutch architect…
News MVRDV to turn former Chinese oil refinery into energy-neutral, mixed-use district Dutch architect MVRDV it to reconfigure a former oil refinery as an urban quarter for the southeastern city of Hangzhou. The plan is to make the 18ha Hangzhou Oil Refinery…
News MVRDV’s residential project aims to bring sense of home to Uruguayan neighbourhood A construction permit has been awarded to “Ziel”, a 15-storey residential development on the southern tip of Montevideo designed by Dutch architect MVRDV. A series of stacked volumes aims to…
News MVRDV designs “pointillist” masterplan for Netherlands technology campus Dutch architect MVRDV has announced a masterplan to extend the campus of the corporate Noviotech Campus in Nijmegen, in the east of the Netherlands. The project will connect the currently…