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09-03-2021

Urban Sun by Daan Roosegaarde: a creative anti-COVID-19 measure

Studio Roosegaarde has launched Urban Sun, an installation based on scientific research and inspired by the effects of sunlight. It uses a specific far-UVC light that disinfects the space, allowing people to meet up safely.

15-01-2021

The Gustav by KCAP, the good life in the city

KCAP Architects&Planners has completed a residential complex in the Zuidas district of Amsterdam. The campus consists of two buildings grouped around a semi-public courtyard that ends up being an extension of the homes and focuses on the tenants’ wellbeing with superior outdoor spaces.

29-12-2020

MVRDV designs the new Etam flagship store in Paris

MVRDV designed a new flagship store for French lingerie brand Etam in a nineteenth-century Haussmann building, in a project that demonstrates respect for the existing historic building while responding to the client’s need to create a unique and unexpected shopping experience.

01-12-2020

RAU Architects’s cathedral of wood for Triodos Bank in Driebergen-Rijsenburg

The new Triodos Bank building in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, in the Netherlands, designed by RAU Architects in partnership with Ex Interiors, has been described as a “cathedral of wood”: a sustainable building whose circular shape symbolises a dynamic balance between nature, culture and economics. This explicit reference to the circular economy and the core business of a bank committed to ethical finance characterises all aspects of the project, which uses natural, sustainable materials even in the furniture.

20-11-2020

MVRDV’s Depot of concrete with a mirror façade

A storage depot for art which is also a museum, made entirely of concrete and covered with mirror panels.

12-10-2020

The Student Hotel in Delft, sustainable accommodation by KCAP

The international design firm KCAP has designed the latest destination for The Student Hotel in Delft, The Netherlands. The building located centrally near the Nieuw Delft Intercity train station is a new meeting place in town where people can stay, work and study‎‎-and it received ‘BREEAM Very Good’ certification too.

09-10-2020

MVRDV completes construction of Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Rotterdam’s Museumpark recently saw the completion of construction of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, designed by architectural practice MVRDV. This unusual bowl-shaped building, lined with mirrors and with a hanging garden on the roof, will become the world’s first art deposit open to the public, due to be officially opened in the autumn of 2021.

08-07-2020

Exhibition - MVRDV Haus Berlin

In Berlin, where it all began, the Dutch architecture studio MVRDV presents its German work in an exhibition designed specifically for the Architektur Galerie Berlin, MVRDV Haus Berlin. Partly conceived as a “working office”, the exhibition gives some insight into the past and present German projects of the studio founded in 1992 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries.

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.