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We create happy & adventurous places
architecture
Our architecture is driven by our desire for better cities, exciting homes, pleasant work environments, engaging leisure facilities, and much-loved public amenities. Led by research-based experimentation, always with a focus on the pragmatic needs of our clients, we try to see every constraint as an opportunity to exploit in the creation of better buildings.
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Already in our very first completed work, our desire to rethink accepted conventions is plainly visible. The Villa VPRO, an office for the Dutch public broadcasting corporation VPRO, makes use of folding, bulging floors to create a variety of unique and charismatic workspaces. It has become an exemplar for the creative office and – given that it was completed in 1997 – was years ahead of its time.
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In another early project, the WoZoCo housing for the elderly, difficult spatial requirements led to a proposal to simply suspend the apartments that wouldn’t fit from the side of the building—an (almost joking) idea that was made a reality. Meanwhile in the Dutch Pavilion at Expo 2000, our response to the theme “Holland Creates Space” was to stack six Dutch landscapes in a single building. With its dramatic presence and fifth-floor forest, it was widely lauded as the most exciting and memorable contribution to the 2000 Expo, and as a model to create artificial nature in high-rises.
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Since these early successes, we have designed innovative and exciting projects that reimagine almost every type of building: from small extensions to family homes to supertall skyscrapers; from intimate housing projects to grand cultural buildings; and from vital public projects such as libraries and government buildings to stores and shopping centres. We love architecture and we love to question, design and reinvent typologies to further develop and ultimately improve them. Finally of course we’ve completed many ‘hybrid’ mixed-use buildings – one of our specialities – which mix together elements of all of the above in unexpected and productive ways.
Experience Architecture
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Villa Stardust
Concordia Design Wrocław
Etam Paris
Groos Rotterdam
Bvlgari Bangkok
Bulgari Kuala Lumpur
The Imprint
Casa Kwantes
WERK12
Tianjin Binhai Library
Sky Vault Penthouse
Crystal Houses
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Hongqiao Flower Building
Hongqiao CBD
Chongwenmen M·CUBE
Chungha building
Roskilde Festival Højskole
Ragnarock
Ku.Be House of Culture and Movement
Baltyk
Future Towers
Pushed Slab
Salt
The Why Factory Tribune
Balancing Barn
Gyre
Cancer Centre
Le Monolithe
TEDA Urban Fabric
Nanjing Arts Zone
Glass Farm
Leiria Bridges
DNB House
Bjørvika Barcode
Book Mountain
New Manor
Haus am Hang
Barcode House
Didden Village
Mirador
Celosia
Matsudai Centre
Frøsilo
UPV Munich
Westerdok
Parkrand
Lloyd Hotel
Pyjama Garden
Studio Thonik
Flight Forum
Hagen Island
Ypenburg
Watervillas
Patio Island
De Effenaar
Calveen
Borneo 12
Borneo 18
Silodam
Double House Utrecht
NTR Headquarters
Hoenderloo Lodge
Otterlo Lodge
Arnhem Lodge
WoZoCo
Library Quarter
MVRDV House
If Factory
Glass Mural
RED7
Pixel
Tainan Market
Nieuw Bergen
Hamburg Innovation Port
Ilot de l’Octroi
Grotius Towers
Valley
Hafenspitze
Ilot Queyries
Radio Tower & Hotel
Lyon Part-Dieu
Bastide Niel
Vanke 3D City
The Modernist
Dawn Bridge
Magasin 113
Zhangjiang Future Park
Expo Pavilion 2.0
The Sax
Buitenplaats Koningsweg
The Milestone
La Vallée Verte
Fabryczna Offices
Turm Mit Taille
Urban Hybrid
La Grande Mosaïque
Rockmagneten
Potsdam Kreativ Quartier³
Green Villa
Mission Rock
Tripolis Park
Xili Sports and Cultural Centre
Ilot Caravane
Y House
Klekovaca Tourist Centre
Dragonback Vineyard
Peruri 88
Vancouver Kingsway
Schinkelplatz Office
Jin Lin Tower
Shenzhen Cultural District
Transitlager Reloaded
Schielandshuis
Syke Synergy
Green Haussmann
Gangnam Hills
Groot Bentveld
Singapore Westwood
Next Gene
Logroño Cubes
Villa Hunting
Donau City Slab
Toptani Shopping
Long Tan Park
Silicon Hill
Wiener Weite
Timeline architecture
#UPDATES

WERK12 nominated for EU Mies Award 2022

MVRDV completes their second Bvlgari façade at flagship store in Bangkok

MVRDV's Valley tops out in Amsterdam’s Zuidas district

Construction begins on MVRDV’s sustainable office and laboratory complex Matrix 1

Baltyk named Poland's best commercial building of the last 5 years

MVRDV tops out Radio Tower & Hotel in Manhattan
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New names for the buildings of Nieuw Bergen in Eindhoven
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Final mirrored panels installed on the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
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WERK12 selected as a finalist in the 2021 DAM Preis

MVRDV takes a revealing yet intimate approach to 19th-century heritage with glass floor in Paris lingerie store for Etam
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MVRDV Reveals Glass Mural in Detroit, makes its debut in Midwestern United States

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen completes construction in preparation for museum’s big move
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Gideon Maasland on the Future of the City at Smart Building Summit - Rotterdam
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Fokke Moerel on restoration and renovation at Structum Conference, Lithuania

'Urban development, architecture and urban housing in the Netherlands', Sven Thorissen Online Speaker and Panelist at Hessen Trade Invest seminar

MVRDV to renovate disused urban factory building into “creative factory” in one of Shenzhen’s most historic districts

'Changing Perspectives and Develop Potential', Sven Thorissen Keynote speaker and panelist at Polis Digital Convention

Tainan Spring and WERK12 win Architizer A+ Awards

'Sapiens' to open at Valley in 2021

MVRDV completes Concordia Design Wrocław, transforming a heritage building into a dynamic creative hotspot

MVRDV to transform Expo 2000 Pavilion, revisiting a world-renowned project from the practice’s early years

Fokke Moerel at first live webinar of AQINA, Poland

With construction almost complete, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen prepares for preview opening in September

New Future for an Outdated Office: MVRDV Completes Villa Stardust

Gideon Maasland at Arde-X Online Architecture and Design Forum

Arjen Ketting as guest speaker in a online edition of the ‘Boijmans in Donner program series’

Tree planting begins on the roof of MVRDV's Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

MVRDV wins competition with Shenzhen Terraces, a multi-level urban living room in China
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Valley wins the MIPIM/AR Future Project Awards

MVRDV Reveals Design to Preserve and Revive Aldo van Eyck's Office Complex in Amsterdam, Uber Signs as Tenant
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Roskilde Festival Folk High School is one of the finalists in the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2020 Awards!

MVRDV Wins Competition to Design New Creative Quarter Potsdam with a Village-Inspired Masterplan

Bertrand Schippan at Queen's Architecture Society in Belfast

National Pulse Memorial and Museum
