MVRDV has plenty of form for coming up with unusual building designs and its latest project is no exception. Planned to sit between Rotterdam's New Luxor Theater and Boston and Seattle residential areas, The Sax consists of two novel Jenga-like mixed-use towers joined by a skybridge.
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Even for a firm as happy to experiment as MVRDV, its Bałtyk tower has a very unusual design. The mixed-use building looks totally different depending on the where you view it from, appearing almost too narrow to support itself from some angles and solid and wide from others.
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It's always interesting to see how well fanciful renders translate into an actual project and the MVRDV-designed Seoullo 7017 Skygarden is no exception. Following the concept's unveiling a couple of years ago, the highway-turned-walkway/park has now opened to the public.
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MVRDV recently unveiled Casa Kwantes: a luxury pad with a brick facade facing the street for privacy and a large curved glazed facade facing the courtyard that offers plenty of light. Envisioned as a contemporary take on 1930s modernist design, it also boasts solar power.
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MVRDV has a history of designing off-the-wall projects and its recently-unveiled Franklin Mitte proposal definitely follows in that vein. It hopes to turn a former US army barracks in Mannheim, Germany, into a new neighborhood with four letter-shaped towers which spell HOME.
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Dutch architect MVRDV is no stranger to designing unusually shaped buildings, but its Y House project is perhaps the most unconventional of them all. As the name suggests, it's a home shaped like the letter "Y," while its coup de grâce is a rooftop swimming pool set into its uppermost apex.
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MVRDV recently completed an all-glass office building in Hong Kong. Featuring glass walls, a glass floor, and glass tables, it's conceived as a new working space for the business with nothing to hide.
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Following on from its work on the Markthal in Rotterdam and the Chongwenmen M-cube in Beijing, MVRDV has unveiled plans for another retail-focused project. As you might expect, the design is both visually and spatially exciting, with an evaporating façade and a new public roof garden.
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MVRDV's is nearing completion on its Beijing-based Chongwenmen M-cube shopping mall. The building sports a pearlescent facade that, while it doesn't match the brilliant Markthal, still promises to be eye-catching.
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Dutch firm MVDRV has been given the nod to lead the redevelopment of a waterfront area in Tainan, Taiwan. The project will see a rundown 1980's shopping mall demolished in favor of a pedestrian-friendly space.
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