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03-06-2022

Rotterdam Rooftop Walk or Rotterdam as you have never seen it

Designed by Rotterdam Rooftop Days and MVRDV, the bright orange Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a 30-metre high and 600-metre long temporary structure located in the city centre which, for a month, offers the public fantastic views of the city. The initiative shows the potential of rooftops as contributors to a sustainable, healthy and liveable city.

01-12-2021

MVRDV’s Ilot Queyries, living on a human scale in Bordeaux

Dutch architectural studio MVRDV completed Ilot Queyries, a residential building in Bordeaux, France, a few weeks ago. The courtyard construction featuring plenty of green space is part of a new neighbourhood consisting of four buildings designed by MVRDV with Joubert Architecture.

11-11-2021

Accessible art, the Depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum designed by MVRDV

Getting closer to art has never been easier and more fascinating: thanks to the new depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the immense collection of the famous Dutch museum becomes accessible to everyone. The large mirrored "bowl" designed by the MVRDV studio in the Museumspark has already become a popular city attraction, the second landmark created by the studio in its native city.

08-11-2021

KCAP and Zecc Architecten design new Kade Noord residential complex in Zutphen

Dutch architectural firms KCAP and Zecc Architecten have completed the design for a new Kade Noord residential urbanisation in the Noorderhaven Zutphen development area, a town located about 30 km north-east of Arnhem. This sustainable district, conceived from the reconversion of an industrial area, develops around a large green courtyard inspired by the local landscape.

17-05-2021

Architecture by the sea: KCAP’s Inntel Hotels Den Haag Marina Beach

Inntel Hotels Den Haag Marina Beach, a four-star hotel designed by KCAP, is an iconic new addition to the skyline of Scheveningen, the famous seaside district of The Hague, constructed as part of the redevelopment of the Noordelijk Havenhoofd in Scheveningen.

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.