Tag Mvrdv

09-10-2020

MVRDV completes construction of Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Rotterdam’s Museumpark recently saw the completion of construction of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, designed by architectural practice MVRDV. This unusual bowl-shaped building, lined with mirrors and with a hanging garden on the roof, will become the world’s first art deposit open to the public, due to be officially opened in the autumn of 2021.

22-09-2020

SCALIURBANI - Green Edition Digital Week

From September 22 to October 8, the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators of the Province of Livorno will be promoting the festival titled SCALIURBANI. The event, featuring over one hundred prestigious guests, including architects and designers such as MVRDV, Fernanda Marques, Andrea Maffei and Alfonso Femia, will focus on issues relating to eco-responsibility and sustainable development for architecture, city, territory and landscape projects to be completed in the foreseeable future. The fully digital version is part of the circuit of events promoted by the European Union with a focus on Sustainable Development.

11-09-2020

MVRDV designs the NIO House showroom, taking inspiration from the city of Chongqing

A special staircase, which takes inspiration from the city of Chongqing: this is the distinctive element that the MVRDV architecture studio designed for NIO House Chongqing, the new showroom created for the Chinese electric car manufacturer NIO. For this promising start-up, considered a major player in China's electric car boom, the architects designed a staircase inspired by the Chongqing skyline, with the buildings appearing to be arranged in layers on the city’s steep hills.

14-08-2020

Episode 8: Irene Luque Martín

“Everything is Urbanism” with Irene Luque Martín, MVRDV Our guest today is Irene Luque Martín. She is Project Leader at MVRDV Urban Studio, one of the eight studios of the Dutch architectural firm in Rotterdam and is a PhD in Planning and Urban Technologies awarded Cum Laude and with an ‘International Mention’ during her stay at the Centre of Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is an active member of several institutions such as ISOCARP, Complex System Society and AESOP where she is part of coordination team of the Young Academic (YA) network, as well a visiting scientist at the University of Twente. Her main role in these institutions is to bring academia outcomes into daily practice methods and research.

07-08-2020

MVRDV’s vertiports for the city of the future

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) could be the new frontier of urban mobility in the future, and vertiports are hubs permitting agile access to the city.

27-07-2020

MVRDV completes Concordia Design in Wrocław, Poland

Designed by the Dutch studio MVRDV, the Concordia Design project in Wrocław, Poland is the renovation and extension of a 19th-century listed building on the city’s Słodowa Island in the Oder River. The architects have added a contemporary extension to create a mixed-use building, featuring co-working offices, a space for resident artists, a venue for cultural events, and a food hall and relaxation zone. The interiors are decorated with a large, colourful mural by the Polish artist Alicja Biała.

08-07-2020

Exhibition - MVRDV Haus Berlin

In Berlin, where it all began, the Dutch architecture studio MVRDV presents its German work in an exhibition designed specifically for the Architektur Galerie Berlin, MVRDV Haus Berlin. Partly conceived as a “working office”, the exhibition gives some insight into the past and present German projects of the studio founded in 1992 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries.

30-06-2020

Planet Netherlands: 20 years of Dutch architecture online

Dok Architecten, Kaan Architecten, MVRDV, Next Architects, Maurice Nio, OMA/AMO, UNStudio and Wiel Arets Architects are only a few of the Dutch architectural practices involved in Planet Netherlands, an online exhibition promoted by the Embassy and the General Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy through its social media profiles, put together in partnership with The Architecture Player. The projects represented include both private homes and public spaces and buildings, all involved in the search for and experimentation with new solutions for the home and the city.