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Working with water, not against it: MVRDV’s “Sea Level Rise Catalogue” shows how cities can adapt to climate change

MVRDV, as part of a team named North Creek Collective, has presented a series of proposals for the City of Vancouver, to adapt waterfront buildings,…

MVRDV to transform Herman Hertzberger’s Centraal Beheer building – an icon of structuralism – into a new residential district

The Centraal Beheer building by Herman Hertzberger in Apeldoorn is a well-known project among architects worldwide. Designed for an insurance company, the office is widely…

MVRDV wins Public Award at Shenzhen UABB

MVRDV and Airbus have been awarded one of five the “Public Awards” from the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), which closed yesterday. The “City and the Sky Above” installation, produced by MVRDV and Airbus in collaboration with Squint/Opera, was voted as one of the best exhibits of the 2019–2020 show by visitors to the Biennale in Shenzhen.

How Air Mobility Can Serve a Greater Good: A Research Collaboration by MVRDV and Airbus Investigates How to Integrate Air Mobility into Urban Environments

Thanks to advances in computing, materials, and electric propulsion technology, one of the most enduring symbols of futurism – flying vehicles – may soon become reality. But in spite of their long presence in the public consciousness, some fundamental questions have not, until now, been addressed: How will these flying vehicles impact our urban environments? How can issues of energy, sound, and safety be approached? What protocols should be established with authorities to guarantee their safe and harmonious integration? More importantly, how could they be leveraged to improve our cities – not only for their users, but for everybody? To answer these questions, MVRDV worked with Airbus, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, ETH Zurich, and Systra to research and plan for the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM).