NOMINATION IAKOV CHERNIKHOV INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAUG 04 '10
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...
read further... DESIGN VILLAGE PARK STAMPERSGAT COMPLETEDMAY 17 '10
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...
read further... NEW WEBSITEFEB 17 '10
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...
read further... A NEW FUTURE FOR EKKERSRIJTFEB 10 '10
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...
read further... TOURIST FARMINGJAN 30 '10
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...
read further... LAND ART FOR THE SUGAR FACTORYJAN 01 '10
&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...
read further... SMV DEVELOPS NEW MAP OF BRABANTCITYDEC 15 '09
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...
read further... PROTOTYPE WATERSQUARE IN TORONTOOCT 31 '09
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,...
read further... BOOK LAUNCH ARCHITECTURE OF CONSEQUENCEOCT 30 '09
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...
read further... POCKETPARK FOR THE FLORIADESEP 17 '09
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...
read further... SMV DESIGNS ECO PASSAGE WITH LOGSSEP 01 '09
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...
read further... SMV DESIGNS LOGISTICS PARK MOERDIJKAUG 15 '09
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....
read further... SMV HAS MOVED TO THE MAASKADEJUN 01 '09
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...
read further... SHAPE OUR COUNTRY: WATERAPR 01 '09
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,...
read further... MASTERPLAN KLAVERTJE 4 ENDORSEDFEB 01 '09
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...
read further... SMV AND GROUPA TEAM UPJAN 06 '09
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...
read further... DISCONTINUANCE OF URBAN AFFAIRS DEC 31 '08
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...
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