The Rotterdam-based architecture firm MVRDV, known for the Rotterdam Market Hall and the Stairs to Kriterion, has completed its new offices.The MVRDV House reflects the style of the firm, creating a home-like environment that includes a living room, a dining room, even “a sofa for the whole house to sit together,” explains MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs. The t new spaces are custom-designed for the collaborative way in which the architects work.A long lunch table, around which the firm gathers daily, is the centerpiece. It is surrounded by other oversized elements: the sofa, a huge split flower pot in the middle of which  the MVRDV’s ”welcome team” sits. The Atelier for the project team — separated from the living room by a glazed wall covered with diagrams and project doodles — takes up most of the central space. Opposite are the brightly painted, multi-colored meeting rooms, whose glass walls create a sensation of peeking into a doll’s house. Among the meeting rooms are the less formal lounge, an intimate library, and a game room, with a table tennis table.In tune with current trends, the firm also has gender-free toilets. A wall with family pictures completes the homey atmosphere of the office.“The expanding MVRDV family needed a new house, so this is exactly what we tried to capture,” says Jacob van Rijs.The building was originally designed by Dutch post-war architect Hugh Maaskant, who is also responsible for a string of buildings in Rotterdam. One of them, the Groot Handelsbegouw, is the building to which the Stairs to Kriterion led. The temporary giant staircase by MVRDV was in place from May through June 2016, taking pedestrians to the roof terrace of the former commercial building and cinema.Distinguished for its concept-driven practice,  MVRDV creates designs that have  been described as gutsy, visionary, and provocative. In its two decades of existence, the firm has completed a number of projects that have stretched the limits of residential density, of mixed land use, and of form, with a number of brightly colored boldly shaped buildings, the prime example being the recently completed Rotterdam Market Hall, covered by an enormous colorful arch that doubles as a residential building. Read more