MVRDV

What will the future of architecture look like, and how is the role of the architect evolving?   Join Verena Lindenmayer on June 4th, at Skala's Architecture After Hours in Berlin, for a talk on the future of architectural practice and the growing role of communication within the field.   She will also share her ideas and insights on how MVRDV is contributing to the evolution of the next generation of architects and the development of the profession.   Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e8vRrh_a Maria Ulashchenko

Join Nathalie de Vries and Sanne van der Burgh on June 3 at the BEAToronto Talk for a conversation on the projects and experiences that shaped their careers. Both of them will share anecdotes, such as Nathalie's role in supervising the construction of our first built project, Villa VPRO, and how Sanne came to explore the fields of sustainability and technology-driven design environments. The discussion will also address the complexities of the "woman in architecture" label, considering how it can both highlight achievements and risk overshadowing individual contributions to the profession. Find more info on how to join here! https://lnkd.in/efrP_ycc Building Equality in Architecture Toronto

🌍 "The Architecture of Understanding Emissions." How is carbon reshaping our cities? Join Nathalie de Vries and Sanne van der Burgh in Toronto on June 4 for a keynote on design, policy and the future of the built environment. Part of our travelling exhibition Carbon Confessions – currently on display at Toronto’s Urbanspace Gallery – Nathalie and Sanne will build on the themes of the exhibition and explore how carbon is reshaping architectural practice, from individual buildings to the scale of the city. 🏙️🔄 Their talks will be moderated by architecture critic Alex Bozikovic. Drawing on our "Carbon Cases" – a series of projects and reflections developed over time – they will share insights into the ambitions, challenges, and trade-offs involved in working towards lower-carbon design, both in Canada and elsewhere in the world. Set within the context of Toronto, the event opens up a wider reflection on the relationship between buildings, mobility, and emissions, and the tensions that arise between reuse, intensification, and new development. This event will take place in the main hall of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. 🎟️ Entry is free of charge with registration. Sign up here! https://lnkd.in/e9i3Hrxi

From model to metropolis… 🏙️🗺️ Our models of Silodam and Valley are now on display at Arcam in Amsterdam! In the exhibition "Van Maquette tot Metropool", visitors will experience Amsterdam up close, from first scale models of the city's iconic buildings to future developments. It follows five different construction phases over the past forty years. With Silodam, completed back in 2002, we showed how to design a diverse neighbourhood in one single building. 20 years later, Valley was realised with that same design philosophy in mind of mixed-use and public spaces that function as a vertical village. The exhibition is on display until September, come check out our models! 🤩 Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/eDaXp6Np 📸 sanne couprie

Want to learn more about how to design together with local communities? Then join our partner Frans de Witte for an online lecture at the AIBC Conference in Vancouver on 25 May!   In his presentation titled "Designing with People: How Design Responds to Communities and Context", Frans will share how our approach to placemaking is shaped by community engagement and user-focused design.   Drawing on projects in the Americas and beyond, he will show how we respond to the social and spatial context of each site and use participatory processes to create places that can be shared, enjoyed, and adapted over time.   This conference is organised by the Architectural Institute of B.C. (AIBC) under the theme "People / Place / Possibility". Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/eNbaSv2j

How can we rethink campus design as a catalyst for knowledge-sharing, exchange and collective learning? On 20th May, director Sven Thorissen will kick-off the lecture series ‘CAMPUS + Innovative Räume für Lehre, Forschung und Interaktion’ at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund. In his lecture, he will present our design for the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) – a world-leading campus for the application of AI technologies. He will present the thoughts, ideas, and concepts that shaped the design, and how the project has developed over the years into an open and interconnected campus environment that stimulates encounter, learning, and collective innovation Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eTxXqk3E

Our Marvila Masterplan has been approved by the municipality of Lisbon! This plan transforms an underused and disconnected site of 28 hectares on the Tagus waterfront into a new urban centre with 1,400 homes, public facilities, and commerce. The area is currently fragmented and disconnected from the rest of Lisbon by railway lines crossing the site, with vacant plots and a lack of public space concealing its untapped potential. Our masterplan organises the site into four distinct clusters that will be interconnected through a central urban park with a sequence of squares and green corridors. Railway infrastructure is partly covered to remove the former barriers, with a reorganised road network that prioritises pedestrian and cycling connections. The plan also integrates existing cultural and natural heritage, such as a former convent and a centuries-old rubber tree becoming a focal point of a new public square. With a variety of typologies, including affordable and social housing as well as spaces for commerce and services, the area remains active throughout the day. The size and placement of new buildings respond to the local topography, views and the existing surroundings, with a focus on courtyards, open blocks, and public routes. "Our plan turns former barriers into connections, using landscape and public space to reconnect the neighbourhoods with each other, with the city, and with the river," says Jacob van Rijs. Read more on the project here! https://lnkd.in/ehrhEG28 Developed with OODA, in collaboration with LOLA Landscape Architects and Thornton Tomasetti 📸 OODA

With the townhouses of Buitenplaats Koningsweg, we're finalist for the 2026 Heuvelinkprijs – organised by Architectuurcentrum CASA! Help us win the award and vote here 🗳️👉 https://lnkd.in/ewNQF_-V   Located in Arnhem within the natural area of the Veluwe, these 21 terraced "townhouses in the forest" offer an idyllic lifestyle, minimising the borders between the houses and the surrounding natural environment. 🌲🏡   Following the concept of the Buitenplaats Koningsweg masterplan we also designed, their grey finishes identify the houses as reimaginations of now-demolished buildings that once stood here as part of a German military camp in the Second World War.   Residents were able choose their preferred floorplan to suit their lifestyle. The homes are elevated with a small projecting deck, floating above the forest floor. 🌿🌻 There are no gardens, but instead there is an intimate connection to the surrounding forests, with large shared spaces between the homes on both sides.   Developed by: KondorWessels Projecten (VolkerWessels) Landscape architecture: Buro Harro 📸 Jannes Linders & Daria SCAGLIOLA

We're doing Carbon Confessions in Canada! Our travelling exhibition on the quest for carbon reduction has landed in Toronto’s Urbanspace Gallery – on display until 22 August. 🏙️♻️ With the construction industry being responsible for almost 40% of global carbon emissions, we share more than three decades of projects that reveal how our sustainable ambitions have evolved. The exhibition shows our ideas, ideals, and everyday actions, but also our missteps and missed opportunities. 📖 Visitors will discover our "Carbon Storyline", followed by a series of transformation projects and 18 anecdotes on our attempts to reduce carbon. We also display six "Carbon Cases" in which the embodied carbon emissions of our projects are calculated with CarbonSpace – an online tool that we made freely available to the public. Special attention is given to the local context, with a selection of our Canadian projects and research tied to the Toronto Green Standard. 🎤 During the course of Carbon Confessions, there will be a public programme of talks, lectures, and discussions bringing together architects, policymakers, researchers, students, and local voices to reflect on the future of sustainable urban development. Read more here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNHMHVJX 📸 Cheryl Rondeau

As our urban environments become more digital and interconnected, how can architects and urban planners use new technologies to address and challenge broader social and environmental issues? On March 13, Winy Maas will speak at the ESO Conference in Athens on the event's topic of "Negotiation, Not Compromise. Design as Dialogue – Between Earth, Technology, and Humanity". He will discuss how he sees architecture not as singular vision, but a negotiating tool between ecology and economy, technology and craft, permanence and impermanence, digital and natural, and human and non-human systems. Find more on how to join here! https://lnkd.in/eqKzkQ6d