Tag Amsterdam

28-12-2018

MVRDV’s Crystal House: a glass brick façade.

The glass bricks of MVRDV’s Crystal House unexpectedly blend with masonry bricks, and are even stronger than concrete

14-12-2018

Exoskeleton prefabricated for Wageningen University and Research Centre by Rafael Viñoly

Rafael Viñoly’s glass cube with a concrete exoskeleton at Wageningen University is a classic yet modern building

10-12-2018

World Building of the Year Award 2018 goes to WOHA’s Kampung Admiralty building

The winners of the biggest prizes at the 2018 World Architecture Festival were announced at a gala dinner in Amsterdam concluding the festival on 30 November. The Kampung Admiralty mixed-use facility designed by WOHA and built in Singapore was named World Building of the Year 2018.

06-12-2018

Winners of the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam

Three days of winners and prizes featuring important international speakers, with 130 judges representing fully 35 countries: the best architecture in the world was on show in Amsterdam at the 2018 World Architecture Festival.

16-11-2018

Tradition and innovation in MVRDV’s Crystal Houses

MVRDV transforms the traditional architecture of the city of Amsterdam in a building made of glass brick

06-09-2018

Europe’s best buildings on show in Vienna

The Mies van der Rohe Award, a prize for contemporary architecture presented by the European Union every two years, was won by residential projects in both categories for the first time in 2017. While awaiting the 2019 edition of the award, an exhibition opening on August 23 at the Architeckturzentrum in Vienna focuses on the finalists and winners in the 2017 competition.

13-07-2018

MVRDV’s glass and glulam pyramid of books

Dutch architects MVRDV designed a multi-purpose neighbourhood library with a pyramid shape that reconciles its cultural functions with businesses and social facilities for the neighbourhood

10-07-2018

MVRDV SALT office building in Amsterdam

SALT is a new project recently completed in Amsterdam by Dutch architectural studio MVRDV, an office building responding to the needs of today’s new creative industries. The façade with its reinforced concrete frames in relief unifies the different operative units in the building, allowing their individuality to show through the differences in the 5 x 4 m module of the windows.