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spaces that make you smile
leisure
At MVRDV, we want every part of people’s lives to be a valuable experience; that includes not only high culture but also the more commonplace forms of entertainment, such as sport, shopping, and nightlife. Whether it’s through a jolt of colour, an unexpected arrangement of elements, or a unique material experiment, our designs bring joy and fun to leisure buildings of all sizes and types.
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For the Lyon Part-Dieu shopping centre, we proposed a design that allows everyday life to permeate the complex, by extending the street both through the building and over it, via a network of stairs and escalators. By connecting the building with its surroundings – including a library and train station – the shopping centre becomes not just a destination, but also a pathway, a real piece of the city full of life and energy. Our designs open up shopping centres, make the upper levels attractive again and add attractions to the roof, often turning them into vertical neighbourhoods and an integral part of the city.
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Our design for Bulgari, which included a design catalogue that will allow the same design elements to be rolled out to stores all over the world, took as its inspiration the brand’s own heritage, incorporating a vision of marble and architectural elements found on the company’s original store in Rome. However, this classical combination is given a sense of futuristic luxury by the experimental material used, which allows the veins of the ‘marble’ to light up with a rich glow. The façade system can be outspoken in response to more expressive consumer behaviour and sober for the more understated markets.
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For The Imprint, a two-building nightclub and theme park complex that is part of the Paradise City hotel complex right outside Seoul-Incheon Airport, a combination of facades that appear lifted like curtains, mirrored light-up entrances, and a golden spot provide the sense of wonder that is required to attract the interest of hotel guests and passengers in the planes above. But the building is also integrated into its surroundings, with facades created by ‘imprinting’ elements of the neighbouring structures. This was realised using latest technologies in 3D printing to allow this façade to be affordable and feasible; the result is ‘artchitecture’.
Experience Leisure
NIO House Chongqing
Bvlgari Bangkok
Bulgari Kuala Lumpur
Gwangju Folly
Tainan Spring
The Imprint
Crystal Houses
Chongwenmen M·CUBE
Chungha building
The Couch
Ragnarock
Ku.Be House of Culture and Movement
Gyre
Leiria Bridges
Matsudai Centre
De Effenaar
Radio Tower & Hotel
Lyon Part-Dieu
Hyde Park
Zhangjiang Future Park
Buitenplaats Koningsweg
Urban Interactive District
Potsdam Kreativ Quartier³
Xili Sports and Cultural Centre
Klekovaca Tourist Centre
Mainau 2040
The Weaves
Paris Olympic Aquatic Centre
Theater aan de Parade - Lantern
The Stack
Taoyuan Museum of Art
Holland Village
Theater aan de Parade
The Gardens of Zaryadye
Doha Viewing Tower
Zoo Maubeuge
Tanger Multiplex
Dierenpark theatre
Maquinnext
Flowerbed Hotel
Museum Bergen
Dongli Pool
Seoul Fashion Valleys
Motorcity Alcaniz
Wembley Casino Hotel
Lagoon City
Busan City Sofa
Sloterpark Pool
BredaPhoto Festival
Design Society Shenzhen
Anyang Peak
NL28 Olympic Fire
China Comic & Animation Museum
Nature Centre
Glass Museum
Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Boijmans Art Depot
Serpentine Pavilion
Timeline leisure
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MVRDV completes their second Bvlgari façade at flagship store in Bangkok

MVRDV tops out Radio Tower & Hotel in Manhattan

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

Tainan Spring and WERK12 win Architizer A+ Awards

Gideon Maasland at Arde-X Online Architecture and Design Forum

MVRDV completes Tainan Spring, a lush lagoon and park in the preserved ruin of a mall in central Tainan

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

Bertrand Schippan at Queen's Architecture Society in Belfast
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Three MVRDV Projects Named as Winners in the 2020 German Design Awards
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Elien Deceuninck lecturing on Architecture for Fashion

Aser Giménez Ortega, MVRDV’s approach to the future of design

Gijs Rikken at 1st DOMO event in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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M·CUBE and Bulgari Kuala Lumpur Win Prix Versailles Awards
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MVRDV’s Crystal Houses, Hosting New Tenant Hermès, Re-Opens with an Even More Transparent Façade

Hui Hsin Liao speaking at SHARE Conference in Skopje
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MVRDV has been selected for the new design of Theater aan de Parade
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MVRDV's M·CUBE combines pearlescent exuberance with contextual modesty in Beijing

MVRDV completes The Imprint at Paradise City, a white-and-gold art-entertainment complex in Incheon

Temporary pavilion by MVRDV opens for BredaPhoto Festival 2018

MVRDV and Woods Bagot reveal Stack for Melbourne's next generation high-rise

MVRDV gets the green light for Hyde Park, a future 400,000 m² urban district for Hooddorp
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MVRDV designs Urban Interactive District situated next to the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam
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MVRDV completes Bulgari Kuala Lumpur's flagship store with a reinvented marble and light permeating façade
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Crystal Houses shortlisted for Wienerberger Brick Award 2018

Construction starts on Lyon Part-Dieu, a 166,000m2 shopping mall transformation allowing city life permeate through an open façade

Ragnarock nominated for the RENOVER Prize 2018
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Ragnarock wins German Design Award 2018
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MVRDV wins competition for Zhangjiang Future Park

Ragnarock one of the world's best museums
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MVRDV's Chongwenmen shopping mall in exhibition Dutch Architecture & You, Beijing, 28 September until 6 October 2017
