A new theatre for Veenendaal – shedding light on local history and culture! The Municipality of Veenendaal has approved the construction of our design for the new Lampegiet Theatre 🎭

A new way to mark the skyline 🏙️🔮 We won the competition to design Inaura: a luxury hotel and residential tower in Downtown Dubai! Our design takes a different approach to stand out among its taller neighbours: a luminous, jewel-like orb nestled in between the building's floors.

We’ve designed the façade of the new Tiffany & Co. flagship store in Beijing – with curving, translucent glass fins! 💎 These flowing shapes were inspired by classic Tiffany jewellery designs – specifically the Bone Cuff by Elsa Peretti.

Happy holidays and a joyful 2026! 🎄🥂

This is Wooden Wonders: a timber pavilion and exhibition we designed for the 321st anniversary celebration of Chiayi City, Taiwan! 🌳🔨 Chiayi has a long history in wooden craftsmanship, with over 6,000 timber buildings still standing. We created a pavilion to explore this relationship with wood.

This is Pujiang Platform, a new timber pavilion and viewpoint in the hills of Chengdu – blending into nature while standing out as a beacon for visitors and residents of Pujiang! 🌲⛰️

Designing mindful architecture! 🧘 We’re working with the Plum Village Buddhist Monastery in Dordogne on two masterplans and designs for a new nunnery, guest houses, and bookstore renovation. Honouring their Engaged Buddhism practice, we focus on nature, circular materials, and bio-based design. 🌿🌏

An homage to Rotterdam! The municipality has approved our design Schieblocks, a 47,000-square-metre office building with public and commercial spaces on the ground floor and top levels.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂

How can we make modular design with individuality and character? Check out the Irwell Hill Residences – two 36-storey residential towers in Singapore! 🏙️🌺

We're bringing nature and communal living to the city! 🌿🏢 Our design for this 21-storey tower named "The Island" in Taichung, Taiwan has received its building permit. The design responds to Taichung’s liveable building regulations by bringing nature to the urban district in which it is located. 🌺

🏀 We won the competition for the new Asllan Rusi sports palace in Tirana! The Grand Ballroom, a spherical building over 100m in diameter, houses a 6,000-seat arena for basketball and volleyball, residential apartments, a hotel, and retail spaces.

The construction of The Sax has started – a jazzy high-rise project bringing 916 apartments to the centre of Rotterdam! 🏗️ The project features two towers of 180m (55 storeys) and 82m (26 storeys), bridged by a golden beam and a 100m-high roof terrace.

The global home of human AI! 🤖👩‍💻 Yesterday, we celebrated the start of construction of the IPAI CAMPUS in Heilbronn, Germany, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The 30-hectare campus will be a hub for 5,000+ people focused on innovative, responsible AI development.

🏡 The housing sector is in desperate need of innovative thinking... so we made our design study into co-living freely available to all!

We're launching CarbonSpace – a free, web-based tool that helps architects reduce carbon from the first sketch in the design process! 🌍✏️ We wanted to make a simple, transparent tool that does not require detailed models, precise data, and complex databases – as is often the case. 📊

Paris without carbon! 🌍 Our Carbon Confessions exhibition is now on display at Atelier Néerlandais until Sept 27. 🏗️♻️ It gives a behind-the-scenes look at sustainable design, showcasing our journey toward carbon reduction, with a 21-chapter story on hanging paper banners.

We’re making Paris Paris-proof! Our exhibition Carbon Confessions is travelling to the French capital to be on display at the Atelier Néerlandais, from September 19 to 27! 🏗️♻️

Nature Rocks! 🏞️🌊 We've designed a transformation of Jialeshui, a scenic nature spot in southern Taiwan known for its unique rock formations. This design strengthens tourism infrastructure, while respecting the local nature.

The transformation of GATE M West Bund Dream Center is complete, turning a former cement factory in Shanghai into a bustling culture and leisure riverside district! 🌆

We're giving public purpose to an empty crater in Munich's Milbertshofen! 🌟💙 Lucky Star is a star-shaped, temporary structure for music, sports, food & fun – bringing life to a future-construction site.

"When you transform buildings, you can allow yourself things that are not always possible in new buildings." 🏛️🔨 In an interview with @dezeen.com, Nathalie de Vries shares how transforming existing buildings has shaped our approach to design and how adaptive reuse can create more sustainable cities.

☀️🏗️ Summer at La Serre – where construction is well underway! Located in Issy-les-Moulineaux in Greater Paris, this mixed-use complex has been designed as a landscaped vertical village, stacked within an open steel rack.

🚶‍♂️🏙 Explore Rotterdam with Winy Maas on an architecture "podwalk" by Tramhuis! Winy will guide you to discover both Rotterdam's iconic architecture and its hidden stories. Explore the city by obtaining the podwalk here! 🎧 tramhuis.nl/en/pages/rou...

A story of sustainability: we made the design for the exhibition "WEtransFORM: On the Future of Building" at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn – that opened yesterday! 🌍🏛️

Nieuw Bergen in Eindhoven has reached its highest point! 🏗️ Seven buildings – both new-built and transformations – with 237 homes, commercial spaces, and… urban farming! 🌱🚜

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

A 25-storey residential tower with a catalogue of boxes for diverse outdoor spaces! 🏢🌿 This is Out of the Box in Taipei!

A 3D-printed façade inspired by local coral species… 🐚🐠 This is our design for Tiffany & Co. store in Cancún!

Buildings that show how the world works! ⚙️ Read our latest article on Stack Magazine on how and why we design buildings that open up to people and offer them a glimpse "behind the scenes" of various institutions. mvrdv.com/stack-magazi...

The Jiaozi Courtyard Towers are nearing completion, forming the final puzzle piece to a new district in Chengdu! The mixed-use complex comprises three office towers and a conference centre atop a ring-shaped plinth.

The new Wuhan Library in China is taking shape! 🏗️📚

This is "BIOTOPIA: Propagative Structures": a vision for a future where biology becomes the foundation of everything – on view at the main exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. 🌱🌍

A pavilion that "breathes" with the sun, providing dynamic shading without any electricity or motors: this is SOMBRA in Venice! 🌞☂️

Galloping through the park! 🐎🌳🌞 We designed a shop window for Hermès at Crystal Houses in Amsterdam.

Happy King's Day! 👑🧡

Happy Easter! 🐣

Façade forward! Enterprise Research Campus construction update incoming… 🚧

"Imagine: swimming the backstroke with a view of a church vault and stained-glass windows." This is Holy Water, our competition-winning design to transform the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen into a public swimming pool! 🏊‍♀️⛪️

Here comes the Sun… Rock! ☀️ The construction of this operations facility in Taiwan – with a future façade of photovoltaic panels and shape that maximises sunlight exposure – has reached its highest point!

The market square becomes the Market Cube! 🔳

🌟 Exciting times ahead for Roosendaal! The Municipality of Roosendaal has recently approved RSD40, "The Mosaic," a strategic vision for the city's sustainable growth. 🌳🏙️ Rebel | Transitiefocus | Joost van Faassen / Stedelijke Strategie & Advies | Goudappel | SpringCo | Merosch | Wing

A new perspective on Rotterdam’s buzzing port! 🚢⚓ Portlantis, the new exhibition & visitor centre for Port of Rotterdam, has its opening ceremony today! With its stacked, rotated levels and striking red staircases, it offers spectacular views of the North Sea and port. 🔴🌅

Happy Holi! 🔴🟠🟡🟢

What if we can combine shopping with nature? This is the LuLa Light Mall – an open-air, porous shopping centre in Chengdu! 🛍️🌿

Mark Douglas Wessel revisits @mvrdv.bsky.social's iconic Dutch market hall a decade after its 2014 opening.

Public space as infographic: this colourful installation at the heart of Bangkok Design Week, called the Mega Mat, tells Thailand’s story of plastic waste and recycling! 🔴🟠🟡🟢

We designed the Green Cathedral in Tilburg! A striking, temporary green structure serving as a centrepiece for Van Gogh Homeland – a new biennial exploring the future of the Dutch province of Brabant. 🌿⛪

We’re at Bangkok Design Week with two installations that rethink urban spaces and materials! 🏙️♻️ 🔹 Mega Mat – a colourful, 860m² installation on plastic recycling in Thailand 🔹 Prompt Park – an AI image series to reimagine space under an expressway

Happy Lunar New Year! 🌒🎆🐍