Rotterdam studio MVRDV has unveiled plans to build a new skyscraper in its home city, featuring a pixellated facade made up of hundreds of bay windows.
Rising to a height of around 150 metres, The Sax will consist of two towers, bridged halfway up by a large horizontal volume with a public plaza on its roof.
It will be built on Rotterdam's Wilhelmina Pier, alongside OMA's De Rotterdam tower complex, UNStudio's Erasmus Bridge and the Renzo Piano-designed KPN Telecom Office Tower.

Large square windows will cover all the building's exterior walls, including many that project forwards. Most of these relate directly to the layout of apartments inside the building, giving residents floor-to-ceiling windows with 270-degree views.
"Rotterdam is more and more a city of towers and The Sax will add a new element to this collection," said Jacob van Rijs, one of the three co-founders of MVRDV. "The facade features a contemporary reinterpretation of the bay window, providing views for each unit with the advantage of allowing individual and unique apartments in this large collective complex," he continued. "This windowed effect adds an extra dimension in experiencing the view onto Rotterdam."

The unusual form was designed with the ambition of creating "one recognisable silhouette" for the riverside building.
This is an approach the studio has also taken for other skyscraper designs, including the twisted Turm Mit Taille tower for Vienn...