MVRDV - Tour & Taxis Towers
Brussels , Belgium · 2021
An aerial precedent for stacked, gridded high-rise massing with integrated green terraces and contextual urban scaling by MVRDV.
- What we like about this project
- Mid-level podium roofs are densely landscaped, functioning as private or semi-public parks elevated above the street.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- glass
- planted-greenery
- metal
Visual identifiers
- gridded-facade
- stepped-towers
- green-roofs
- stacked-volumes
- concrete-precast
Style tags
- contemporary
- mvrdv
- stacked
- eco-urbanism
Visual tags
- masterplan
- high-rise
- mixed-use
- green-roof
- urban-regeneration
- stacked-massing
- Geometry
- Multiple interconnected high-rise and mid-rise volumes featuring stepped profiles, gridded facades, and terraced podium roofs.
- Facade system
- Precast concrete grid facade with recessed punched window openings and integrated balconies.
- Structural guess
- Concrete core and flat slab construction with perimeter precast facade elements.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale masterplan grouping several high-rise towers up to twenty-plus stories next to medium-density blocks.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight under a partly cloudy sky casting sharp, short shadows across the facade grids.
- Atmosphere
- Optimistic and dense urban environment blending heavy gridded architecture with soft, accessible landscape pockets.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront regeneration context surrounded by lower-rise historic and industrial fabric and distant greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a dense urban cluster with varying heights that open up to landscaped rooftop courtyards and courtyards at ground level.
- Composition rhythm
- A repeating square window grid across staggered volumes creates a unified texture across diverse building heights.
- Style reading
- Contemporary stacked architectural massing with green integration
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial towers with public podium landscape.
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-concrete, glass, planted-greenery, metal
- Visual identifiers
- gridded-facade, stepped-towers, green-roofs, stacked-volumes, concrete-precast
- Style tags
- contemporary, mvrdv, stacked, eco-urbanism
- Visual tags
- masterplan, high-rise, mixed-use, green-roof, urban-regeneration, stacked-massing
- Geometry
- Multiple interconnected high-rise and mid-rise volumes featuring stepped profiles, gridded facades, and terraced podium roofs.
- Facade system
- Precast concrete grid facade with recessed punched window openings and integrated balconies.
- Structural guess
- Concrete core and flat slab construction with perimeter precast facade elements.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale masterplan grouping several high-rise towers up to twenty-plus stories next to medium-density blocks.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight under a partly cloudy sky casting sharp, short shadows across the facade grids.
- Atmosphere
- Optimistic and dense urban environment blending heavy gridded architecture with soft, accessible landscape pockets.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront regeneration context surrounded by lower-rise historic and industrial fabric and distant greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a dense urban cluster with varying heights that open up to landscaped rooftop courtyards and courtyards at ground level.
- Composition rhythm
- A repeating square window grid across staggered volumes creates a unified texture across diverse building heights.
- Style reading
- Contemporary stacked architectural massing with green integration
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial towers with public podium landscape.
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture