Tag Mecanoo

19-03-2021

Mecanoo’s Kaohsiung station is being completed

Work is in progress on the new railway station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by Mecanoo: a railway hub that reconnects a city that had been divided by the railway line.

09-12-2020

Powerhouse Company works in collaboration with SHoP Architects, Office Winhov, Mecanoo and Crimson on a new masterplan for Rijnhaven, Rotterdam

Powerhouse Company, in collaboration with RED Company, presented the new masterplan for Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven, one of the oldest ports on the southern shore of the Nieuwe Maas. The project involves conversion of the Codrico factory, known for its industrial history and status as a landmark on the Rotterdam skyline, above all for the big cube on its roof that lights up bright green at night. Powerhouse Company’s masterplan celebrates the area’s industrial heritage while embracing the future with new buildings and better use of existing constructions. Major architectural studios such as Mecanoo, SHoP Architects, Office Winhov and Crimson Architectural Historians are involved in the design of the buildings in the masterplan.

11-08-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH FRANCINE HOUBEN, MECANOO

“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.” - Charles Eames

29-07-2020

FRANCINE HOUBEN, MECANOO

“I am still from that generation that is very much male dominated, but I just wanted to be a good architect. I do want to have enough women in my office”, Francine Houben

10-07-2020

Mecanoo’s brick homes in Manchester

A brick building completes a major urban renewal project in Manchester’s Hulme quarter

29-04-2020

Architecture, the pandemic and the future of design: MECANOO

In only a few months, everything has changed completely. Even the world of architecture. In search of possible new scenarios, Floornature opens the discussion of a new approach to design for a time of public health emergency, publishing a series of interviews with architects all over the world. How are the big studios organising their work, and what has been the impact of the current situation on smaller architectural practices? What does it mean to design infrastructure, cultural centres and living spaces while avoiding social contact? Might the resilience we seek in buildings also be applicable to the profession of architect? Here are the architects’ responses, some in text form and others in videos, in the usual style of our portal.

24-04-2020

The interior of Mecanoo’s locHal mechanical library

The interior of Mecanoo’s locHal mechanical library consists of a series of workshops of great creative value designed for development of the city’s cultural creativity.

30-08-2019

Mecanoo in Longgang, concrete and aluminum cantilevered facade

An imposing concrete and aluminum building by Mecanoo is the economic gateway to Longgang, China

26-09-2018

Mecanoo architecten: Masterplan for Villa Industria, Hilversum

The redevelopment of Hilversum, in the Netherlands, sees the participation of Mecanoo architecten in Villa Industria, a new residential district on the former industrial site of REGEV. The new residential tower blocks in Villa Industria are inspired by gasometers.