MALLOWS VILJOEN WORLDWIDE
SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN
about
MVW IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONSULTANCY THAT SPECIALISES IN SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING AND SERVICE PROVISION.
We live a complex age in which towns and cities are now the home for a majority of the world’s population. These urban areas are being shaped by new challenges, including climate change, with its attendant extremes of drought, floods and heat, and post-Covid changes such as work-from-home.
Within cities up to 70% of carbon emissions are generated from structures. Buildings are occupied by people, equipment and machinery, and need to be energised, lit, cooled and heated.
Cities are shaped by two evolutionary trends. Firstly, the rapid development of technology relating to principal urban services – energy and water provision, wastewater and solid waste disposal and transportation. Secondly, by slow and incremental changes in built form and land conversion as buildings, roads and hard surfaces endure for decades.
Many disciplines are now involved in shaping these trends. MVW brings a multi-disciplinary perspective and long experience to the challenges of selecting from an array of methodologies and technologies and navigating new regulations, to achieve meaningful solutions.
MVW provides services ranging from high-level coordination and guidance to professional teams to mid-level planning and management to detailed design-level inputs. We have long experience in shaping diverse teams including architects, planners, engineers, lawyers, environmental and other specialists to the requirements of specific projects.
principals
ANTHONY MALLOWS
Anthony is an architect and city planner, with extensive knowledge and experience in the planning, design, implementation and management of innovative, large, complex mixed-use projects. Anthony has developed multiple projects in 30 countries around the world with a client-centric focus that ensures projects move efficiently and creatively from the planning and design stages into commercially successful built work.
His leadership style is focused on team vision building, place making and realistic real estate development through systematic planning and design processes that translate into an elegant and memorable built environment.
Prior to founding MVW, Anthony was President and CEO of WATG, a 450-person global design firm with 10 offices worldwide. Prior to heading up WATG, Anthony led the development team of Masdar City, which is wholly owned by the Abu Dhabi Government’s Mubadala Investment Company. Prior to that he was Executive Director with Sorouh Real Estate PJSC based in Abu Dhabi and before that served as Vice President + Managing Partner for over fifteen years with Sasaki Associates in Boston.
Anthony holds a Batchelor degree in Architecture (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and dual Master’s degrees in Architecture and City Planning both with an emphasis on Environmental Design from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
REINHOLD VILJOEN
Reinhold operates as a planner and engineer on a diverse range of projects covering policy, analysis, design and project management, with focus on sustainable services – energy, water, wastewater and transport.
He has over five decades of experience in the private sector, government and NGO sectors.
Reinhold has a Batchelor degree in planning from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a Master’s degree in Applied Science (Energy Engineering) from the University of Cape Town.
