The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam was designed by MVRDV for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The first pile was driven on March 17, 2017, and it opened on November 5, 2021 with King Willem-Alexander present. The final cost was 94 million euros. The article names no style and describes a reflective bowl shape inspired by an aluminum-colored IKEA bowl.
The building is 39.5 meters tall with seven floors and 15,541 square meters. Its facade has 1,664 mirror panels covering 6,609 square meters.
It stores over 151,000 objects in fourteen compartments with five climates. A 120-seat restaurant sits on the roof, and it has four restoration studios and thirteen display cases.
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