FOUNDING OF STUDIO MARCO VERMEULEN

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...

We have a new website! The website displays all recent projects and also the projects of Urban Affairs. With the specially for this site developed PDF-generator (look at downloads) PDFs of our work...

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...

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...