Five designs for the Shift Landmark 92.5 MB

Ecosistema Urbano (lead architect, Spain), Fabrications, ARUP
“A Living Landmark”
Conceived as a regenerative living system, the building operates as a dynamic social organism that integrates public space, ecological performance, and civic life—actively fostering biodiversity and strengthening connections between local communities and wider ecological networks.

Heatherwick Studio (lead architect, UK), Nudus, Ramboll, Oosterhoff, RAA, RLB
“Urban Reef”
A new building for Rotterdam, built from six layers of activity that support one another like a reef‑inspired ecosystem. Influenced by natural flows of movement, these layers offer spaces that bring people together, build climate awareness and show how a building can encourage lighter, more sustainable ways of living together.

Mecanoo (lead architect, Netherlands), ARUP, Tellart
“The House of Shift”
An inspiring icon for sustainability that places bold upcycling, carbon storage, energy neutrality, and ecological integration at its core. Integrating spaces for imagination, exploration, action, play, and joy.

MVRDV (lead architect, Netherlands), dGmR, ARUP, Arcadis, Studio Bertels, Joris Laarman Lab
“Rotterdam Rocks”
Rotterdam ROCKS! is a stacked landscape of living rocks that turns architecture into a regenerative, urban ecosystem and a new landmark for the city: rocks that breathe. Strengthening Rotterdam's experimental character, it demonstrates that buildings of tomorrow can merge nature and public life.

Office for Political Innovation (lead architect, Spain), Kaan Architecten, LOLA Landscape Architects, iart, Pieters Bouwtechniek, Stadium Consultancy, IGG Bouweconomie, WSP, Envirotecnics
“Planetary Landmark for the Climate Age”
Climate Section proposes a new kind of landmark for the Climate Age: not a monument, but a working section through the world as it is becoming—a place where climate is sensed, understood, and actively reshaped, together.