MVRDV wins competition to design Rotterdam’s Shift Embassy ‘Rotterdam Rocks!’

The Rotterdam-based architecture firm wins The Shift International Architecture Competition with ‘Rotterdam Rocks!’, a sustainable landmark concept including a hotel, observation deck, embassy and more

Architecture studio MVRDV has been revealed as the winner of social enterprise Shift's competition to design a €240 million landmark in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The winning proposal, named Rotterdam Rocks!, was selected from a five-strong shortlist that also included Heatherwick Studio, Mecanoo, Office for Political Innovation and Ecosistema Urbano. MVRDV's was the most radical of The post MVRDV wins competition for "new world wonder" in the Netherlands appeared first on Dezeen.

a series of rounded rock-like forms rise as a vertical landscape of planted terraces, public routes, and immersive spaces designed to make climate action tangible. The post MVRDV wins competition for rotterdam’s ‘shift embassy’, a landmark for ecological change appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

MVRDV has won the international design competition organized by the social enterprise Shift to design the Shift Embassy, a new cultural destination planned for Rotterdam's developing Waterkant district. Conceived as a hybrid of architecture and landscape, the proposal, titled Rotterdam ROCKS! combines exhibition spaces, hospitality, education, public amenities, and ecological infrastructure within a publicly accessible building intended to support Shift's mission of engaging visitors with environmental and societal challenges. The project will form part of Waterkant, a large-scale urban development on the south bank of the Maas, planned to include 3,750 homes alongside schools, workplaces, cultural venues, and public spaces.