Shift, a social venture startup based in the Netherlands, has announced the five finalist teams advancing to Stage Two of its ...

Influential Dutch studio MVRDV has been chosen to radically renovate a disused church. The former place of worship is being transformed into a public swimming pool, complete with a movable floor ...

The architects imagine it with a new social function. (Courtesy MVRDV) St. Francis of Assisi Church has been vacant since 2023. The competition was meant to give it a new social function and help ...

As architecture navigates a rapidly changing world shaped by ecological urgency, social transformation, and technological acceleration, the notion of intelligence is shifting. No longer confined ...

Dutch studios MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have revealed plans to overhaul a vacant church in the Netherlands by adding a swimming pool with an adjustable floor that allows visitors to "walk on water".

It helps that the nearly 363,000-sq.-ft. facility, designed by Dutch firm MVRDV, looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, replete with stark white interiors and terraced shelves that cascade ...