MVRDV

Come peek behind the doors of our MVRDV House! 👀 On Saturday, June 20, our Rotterdam office will participate in the Open Office Day, from 13.00 to 16.00!

As part of the Rotterdam Architectuur Maand, our office will be open to the public for an afternoon. It's a great opportunity to better understand how we work by getting inside our space and talking to our colleagues!

Entrance is free but you must sign up in advance to be able to enter, as the capacity is limited. Register here! 🎟️➡️ https://rotterdamarchitectuurmaand.nl/en/programme/item/mvrdv-6/

📸 Michèle Margot

The construction of the LXK Campus in Berlin's Friedrichshain district is still in full swing – with completion expected at the end of this year! 🏗️🚧 This mixed-use development spans 61,200 square metres – combining offices, commercial spaces, and housing.

🌆 The design features two L-shaped buildings, united by a luminous horizontal band. The buildings' terraces, green spaces, and rooftop gardens offer expansive views of the city.

🌱🌞 Public areas – including a new green square – integrate the complex into the developing district and ensure pedestrian accessibility. The residential part of the project includes around 140 apartments, ranging from studios to 3-bedroom units, many with balconies or terraces.

Read more on the project here! https://www.mvrdv.com/projects/827/lxk-campus

cc Tishman Speyer | RB RealBerlin Group | CESA GROUP

Renders: Tishman Speyer
📸 Tomek Kwiatosz Architekturfotografie

🌍 "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://www.eventbrite.nl/e/carbon-confessions-the-architecture-of-understanding-emissions-tickets-1988003426765?aff=oddtdtcreator

From model to metropolis… 🏙️🗺️ Our models of Silodam and Valley are now on display at the Arcam Architectuurcentrum 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://arcam.nl/en/events/from-model-to-metropolis-amsterdams-urban-story-1986-2026/

📸 Sanne Couprie

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://mvrdv.com/news/4865/mvrdv-and-oodas-marvila-masterplan-regenerates-a-fragmented-and-vacant-piece-of-lisbon-into-a-landscape-led-urban-centre

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://casa-arnhem.nl/event/hvp2026/

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
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://mvrdv.com/news/4864/carbon-confessions-opens-in-toronto

📸 Cheryl Rondeau

Join us in Venice this summer for our design workshop at Venice Studio – taking place from June 29 to July 10. 🏛️☀️

Applications are now open! So, if you're a student or recent graduate in architecture or urban design, join our colleagues Lorenzo Mattozzi and Cosimo Scotucci to explore MVRDV's design methodology for public places and playfulness, with the city of Venice as a backdrop.

This year's MVRDV studio "Fondamente Minore" will focus on the potential of public space in Venice, reimagining it as a catalyst for social life, play, and ecological resilience. Students will be asked to design a new neighbourhood of approximately 1.5 hectares on the northern edge of Venice.

Venice Studio 2026, organised by Scott Woods, brings together six internationally renowned architecture and urbanism firms and is now in its sixth edition! The images below are designs of our 2025 workshop "Isola Minore" – revitalising the historic island of Lazzaretto Vecchio.

Find more info on how to register here! https://mvrdv.com/events/4862/lorenzo-mattozzi-and-cosimo-scotucci-to-lead-venice-studio-2026

How can we transform our planet into a sustainable home for over 8 billion humans and countless other species? 🐝🌿

Join us at 國立成功大學 National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan on May 6 for the lecture TOWARDS BIOTOPIA by Winy Maas. This presentation is a bold vision for a living, evolving planet and a call to reimagine design, proposing a future where biology becomes the foundation of everything. 🌱 It envisions a world designed not just with nature, but as nature.

Date & time: Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 19:00 (local time)
Location: NCKU C-Hub 1F, Creative Hub, National Cheng Kung University
Registration link: https://forms.gle/mHW7YE52S4nNv1898