Nathalie de Vries(MVRDV) at Shanghai International Interior Design Festival
Nathalie de Vries (Appingedam, 1965) founded in 1991 together with Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs MVRDV. Early work such as the television centre Villa VPRO and the housing estate for elderly WoZoCo, both in the Netherlands, have lead to international acclaim and established MVRDV’s leading role in the international architecture scene.
Projects of MVRDV are among others the design for the Netherlands Pavillion at the Hannover World Expo 2000, the innovative business park Flight Forum in Eindhoven, the Matsudai cultural centre and the Gyre shopping centre in Japan, the iconic Mirador building in Madrid and the Silodam building and Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam.
Current projects in development are among others a comic museum in Hangzhou, the new Market Hall for Rotterdam, a number of housing and office projects in the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, France, England, Albania, the USA and China. Currently Nathalie de Vries is working on a residential masterplan for the city of Leiden, a hotel in Aalsmeer and a theatre in Emmen, Netherlands. In China, she is working on a water city in Xinjin, near Chengdu, which foresees the creation of new islands in the city’s river. The design of the islands works with the water in the wet and dry season, and offers new water self-cleaning technologies.