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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
Radio Tower & Hotel
Chongwenmen M·CUBE
Holland Village
Xili Sports and Cultural Centre
Tanger Multiplex
Glass Museum
Dongli Pool
Wembley Casino Hotel
The Imprint
Taoyuan Museum of Art
Lyon Part-Dieu
The Couch
Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Busan City Sofa
De Effenaar
BredaPhoto Festival
Ragnarock
Cultural Cluster Zaanstad
Klekovaca Tourist Centre
Maquinnext
China Comic & Animation Museum
Museum Bergen
Serpentine Pavilion
Urban Interactive District
Hyde Park
Ku.Be House of Culture and Movement
Tainan Axis
Theater aan de Parade
Doha Viewing Tower
Boijmans Art Depot
Motorcity Alcaniz
Anyang Peak
Matsudai Centre
Nature Centre
Sloterpark Pool
NL28 Olympic Fire
Rennes Palais du Commerce
The Stack
Bulgari Kuala Lumpur
Design Society Shenzhen
Gwangju Folly
Zhangjiang Future Park
Crystal Houses
Zoo Maubeuge
Dierenpark theatre
Chungha building
Flowerbed Hotel
Gyre
Leiria Bridges
Timeline leisure
#UPDATES

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

Chongwenmen shopping mall in exhibition 'Dutch architecture & You' as part of the Beijing Design Week

Crystal Houses wins Best of the Best category - German Iconic Awards 2017
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Ku.Be House of Culture and Movement shortlisted as World Architecture Festival 2017 Finalist

Tainan Axis breaks ground

MVRDV announces urban vision masterplan for Hyde Park, Haarlemmermeer

Crystal Houses wins the 2017 Prix Versailles special prize for Exterior (Shop & Stores category)

Crystal Houses wins Amsterdam Architecture Prize popular choice award
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Crystal Houses is the Architizer A+Award Popular Choice Winner in the Mixed Use Category

Crystal Houses nominated for Amsterdam Architecture Prize 2017

Crystal Houses wins Commercial Architecture Category in ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards '17
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KU.BE House of Culture and Movement nominated for Danish Store Arne 2017 Award

Ragnarock and The Couch nominated for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award 2017

Ragnarock and The Couch nominated for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award 2017

Crystal Houses wins Shopping category Award at World Architecture Festival 2016

Crystal Houses' glass bricks win Glass Innovation Award 2016

MVRDV wins competition for Xili Sports and Cultural Centre Shenzhen

KuBe opens in Copenhagen: Community Centre for Healthy and Fun Lifestyle

MVRDV designs an entertainment complex as an echo of its surroundings - with a Midas touch
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The Couch wins BNA Building of the Year 2016 Category award for 'Identity and Iconic Value'
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Green light for MVRDV's cultural cluster in Zaanstad
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MVRDV and COBE open Ragnarock, a gold-studded, gravity-defying rock museum in Roskilde, Denmark
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MVRDV completes Crystal Houses Amsterdam, a flagship store with a replica façade made entirely out of glass
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The Couch nominated for the BNA Building of the Year Award
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