Tainan, taiwan | Tainan Spring | Urban Development Bureau of the Tainan City Government | MVRDV, LLJ Architects, The Urbanists Collaborative

Completed in 2020, the design concerned the transformation of a former city-centre shopping mall into an urban lagoon surrounded by plants that will develop into a lush jungle, reconnecting the city

with nature and its waterfront. A key part of MVRDV’s strategy was to bring the greenery to the city with the introduction of large areas of planting, with local species of trees, shrubs, and grasses.