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MVRDV's bold new tower has a road running through it

Adam Williams December 19, 2018

Bringing to mind a child's toy building blocks stacked atop each other, the newly-unveiled Vanke Headquarter Tower is another unique and confident design from Dutch firm MVRDV. The mixed-use project will rise to a height of 250 m (820 ft) and straddle a road in Shenzhen, China.

Vanke Headquarter Tower is expected to begin construction in mid-2019

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MVRDV raises curtain on South Korean nightclub

Adam Williams September 25, 2018

MVRDV was commissioned to design two buildings in South Korea that contain a nightclub and other facilities, and require no windows. The firm took the opportunity to do something different and created an eye-catching project defined by its unusual facades.

The Imprint's facades are raised at certain areas, in a way MVRDV likens to raised curtains

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MVRDV to turn communist pyramid into technology center

Adam Williams May 22, 2018

Albania's Tirana Pyramid has an interesting past. Opening in 1988 as a museum honoring the country's communist former leader, it was then used as a temporary NATO base, a nightclub, and more following communism’s fall. MVRDV is now turning it into a technology education center for young people.

MVRDV says the Tirana Pyramid project will be completed by June, 2019

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MVRDV designs a SeaSaw for the sea shore

Adam Williams April 16, 2018

High-profile Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has revealed plans for an unusual art installation/public viewing platform in the city of Den Helder, the Netherlands. Bringing to mind an oversized seesaw (or teeter-totter), the structure will gently rock backward and forward.

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QR codes on crystalline building to serve visitors with tourist information

Adam Williams February 1, 2018

High-profile Dutch firm MVRDV has unveiled its design for an eye-catching new office building in Germany. Named Milestone, the building will sport a large hole in it that will serve as a public space, and will feature both photovoltaic cells and QR codes integrated into its facade.

Construction of the Milestone is due to begin in 2020

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2017's best sustainable, innovative and interesting houses

Adam Williams December 28, 2017

Residential architecture is going through an exciting time and this is reflected in the homes we've covered during the past 12 months. A floating off-grid luxury pad, a 3D-printed house, and a sustainable home that can be built in a few days all feature in our pick of the best houses of 2017.

New Atlas highlights the best houses of 2017

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MVRDV plans pixelated towers for Abu Dhabi

Adam Williams December 8, 2017

MVRDV has revealed a new mixed-use residential development planned for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, appropriately named Pixel. Due for completion in 2020, the project comprises a group of seven towers that sport an eye-catching pixelated design.

Pixel's seven towers will be arranged around a pedestrianized plaza

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China's library of the future has an eye on design

Rich Haridy November 2, 2017

It’s not unusual for bold Dutch design firm MVRDV to create experimental structures. This is the firm to have given us everything from a transparent office tower to a house shaped like the letter “Y”. Now it's delivered one of the most oddball libraries we have ever seen, the Tianjin Binhai Library

The undulating shelves blur the outside and inside of the Tianjin Binhai Library

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Tetris meets Snake and Ladders in colorful tiny-living installation

Nick Lavars October 23, 2017

Growing urban populations pose all manner of challenges. In this vein, the new Wego installation on show at Dutch Design Week is intended to provoke some ideas around how competing interests can exist in harmony within shared tiny living quarters.

The nine colorful blocks that make up the nine-meter-tall (30 ft) Wego installation are stacked together ...

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MVRDV rocks the block with Jenga-like Sax towers

Adam Williams July 13, 2017

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.

Construction of The Sax is set to begin in 2018 and completion is expected by the ...