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The first prototype of the facade panel of the gas recieve station of the Agro Food Cluster Nieuw Prinsenland in Dinteloord is ready. The panel displays the chemical formula of natural gas in the right propotion of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen....

Last Monday evening we have presented the design for the bridgehead on the Maaskade to the community of Feijenoord and inhabitants of the Noordereiland. The design was received with enthusiasm and will be linked to the development of the Jan...

Interview in Architectenweb Magazine

About the search for the right scale in closing cycles and new challenges for spatial designers.

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Text Michiel...

The exhibition 'Dutchville' in the NAi shows a perspective on the future of the Netherlands by means of sixty designs of which some are already under construction. Four designs of SMV are part of this exhibition: living landscapes, Klavertje...

LIVING FRONTIERS OF ARCHITECTURE III-IV
The exhibition consists of a crossover between architectural projects, art installations and case stories from various places in the world and is divided in three overarching themes: The Dream,...

As part of Brabant2018 and commissioned by the Brabants Kenniscentrum Kunst en Cultuur (BKKC) SMV has organized a design studio together with MVRDV. BrabantStad is a candidate for European Capital of Culture 2018. The fact that several cities...

Now that we have Italian, American and Belgium team members, it was time for a typical Dutch experience: sailing on the Ijsselmeer. Especially the metroplitan area of Urk made a big impression.

SMV has been selected for the design of Ocean World, an initiative to realize an indoor aquatic center on the Spuikomweg in Vlissingen. The basis of the aquatic center is formed by an artificial river that opportunity to practice various water...

With the construction of the Greenportlane also the first contours of the working landscape Klavertje 4 become visible. If things go according to plan the first clover will be in use by the end of 2011

Our study on a housing typologie that combines high density with a landscape environment has been awarded at the D3 International Housing Competition

The spatial design of Logistic Parc Moerdijk is approved by the Provincial Executives of Noord-Brabant

The LPM has high ambitions in the field of sustainability, landscape, energy, water and multiple use of space.

Two projects of SMV have been selected for the year book landscape and urban design. Both Klavertje 4 Greenport Venlo and watersquares have been selected by a jury of experts as exemplary projects. The yearbook was presented at December 11th...

In the Bosatlas of Netherlands Waterland the watersquare is included as one of the solutions which create extra storage room for stormwater which is necessary because of climate change. This publication is an important recognition for an idea...

From December 9 2010 the project Inside Out will is on display in the Museum of Architecture Moscow. The exhibition en catalogue are the result of a design competition for the building of 500 residential blocks in a new town South of Moscow

Of course we were inspired by all the exhibited projects, but the most relaxing was to watch celebrities parading down the boulevard.

After five weeks of travelling through the vast west american desert, designing on the Dutch landscape feels like embroidering.

Studio Marco Vermeulen has been nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize. The Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation (ICIF) has established a biannual International Prize on the name of Iakov Chernikhov in 2006. The Prize is...

10 September until 24 October 2010
Exhibition Architecture of Censequence.

Opening: Sunday September 12th at 15h30 by Ole Bouman, director Netherlands Architecture Institute.

July 28th: São Paulo (Brazil)

The NAi is organising workshop sessions and a debate in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The program starts with an 8 day Visiting School organised by the AA School London and the Brazilian office SUBdV. It is...

Between the site of the sugar factory and the village of Stampersgat, SMV designed a miniature landscape park. The park is made out of landforms which are constructed using beet soil, a rest product of the sugar factory. The landforms work as...

Dutch designs on the future

From 20 February till 16 May 2010 this exhibition is shown at the NAI (Rotterdam).


Architecture of Consequence reveals how 24 Dutch bureaus integrate these global issues into their vision of society and their...

On Friday March 26th members of the NAi Circle have visited the office of SMV.

SMV together with Urban Xchange have been asked by Brainport Development, the Province of Noord-Brabant and Industrieschap Ekkersrijt to make a proposal for the business area of Ekkersrijt. Important part of the proposal will be to create a...

The Foundation Streekrekening Het Groene Woud has as its main objective the preservation of agricultural activities within the region Het Groene Woud (area between 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven and Tilburg). At the same time they strive...

&sourceIn the buffer zone between the sugar factory and the village of Stampersgat, SMV is designing a miniature landscape park. The earthworks are constructed with beetsoil, a waste product of the sugar factory, and are used as sound barrier...

For the four Architecture Centres of Brabant SMV is drawing out a new map for BrabantCity.

The assignment is to design and produce an intriguing image of the spatial agenda of the urban area of Brabant, a.k.a. BrabantCity. It involves aspects...

AbC Festival 2009: Water
Water—chemical matrix of life, transportation conduit, industrial feedstock, agricultural necessity–is coming under new pressures. This year Alphabet City considers the current state of this most vital substance,...

On October 30th the NAi will present a book entitled Architecture of Consequence – Dutch Designs on the Future. The book discusses the work of 25 Dutch architecture firms that all approach city-making from the context of societal issues. Contemporary...

Around exit 12 on the A73 nearby Venlo SMV makes a design for a pocketpark. The park will become a logo for the working landscape of Klavertje 4. At the same time it will function as a gateway park for the Floriade 2012, world's largest...

SMV is researching the possibilities for an eco passage made completely out of logs for the future werklandschap (literally: work landscape) Klavertje 4. The eco passage is an important link in the ecological zone on the west side of...

The Province of Noord-Brabant and Grontmij have selected SMV to make an urban design for Logistics Park Moerdijk (LPM). The LPM site covers approx. 190 hectares and the goal is to make it the most sustainable business park in the Netherlands....

Studio Marco Vermeulen has moved to an extraordinary location: a monumental building on the river Maas in the centre of Rotterdam (the white building on the picture). The Maaskade is situated on the Noordereiland and looks out on one of the...

Exhibition NAI Rotterdam: april 1st - may 3rd

During -Shape our country-, Gallery 1 will accommodate a workshop for national planning. Every month, from November to April, it will focus on a specific theme e.g. mobility, housing, work, leisure,...

The municipalities Horst aan de Maas, Maasbree, Sevenum, Venlo and the Province of Limburg have teamed up to boost the area development in the Venlo region. Under the combined name of Greenport Venlo a joined integral area development will take...

SMV has been asked by the Province of Limburg to design a masterplan for the Glass- and Energy Campus in Venlo. For this project SMV teams up with Rotterdam based office GroupA.

The Sunrise Campus is located in Trade Port West, Venlo. It...

A new beginning: the founding of Studio Marco Vermeulen is a fact. We are up for the challenge!

As of 1 January 2009 we have discontinued Urban Affairs. We, Theo Hauben and Marco Vermeulen, will continue as two independent firms.

We embarked on our collaboration in 1997 while we were studying. Our first project was the conversion and...