Tag Sebastian Van Damme

07-04-2021

De Kovel Architecten & Studio AAAN: Hospice de Liefde, Rotterdam

De Kapel, the complex located in Rotterdam and protected as a national monument, has become the home of Hospice de Liefde, a centre for the care of terminally ill patients. Commissioned by Stichting Volkskracht Historical Monuments, De Kovel and Studio AAAN renovated and extended the 18th-century farmhouse.

05-03-2021

KAAN Architecten project for the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp

After winning the Flemish government’s international contest in 2003, architectural studio KAAN Architecten has worked intensively on the renovation and expansion of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. The architects can now unveil the main phase in their project, which brings a contemporary allure to this historic 19th century building.

13-07-2020

Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond complete the new Assen Station

A new and iconic triangular wooden roof is the trademark of the new Assen Station, which has become the gateway to this Dutch city. This recently-completed project is the work of architecture firms Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond, who decided to include a bold urban feature which seems to float above the buildings below it and which connects two districts of the city.

30-06-2020

Planet Netherlands: 20 years of Dutch architecture online

Dok Architecten, Kaan Architecten, MVRDV, Next Architects, Maurice Nio, OMA/AMO, UNStudio and Wiel Arets Architects are only a few of the Dutch architectural practices involved in Planet Netherlands, an online exhibition promoted by the Embassy and the General Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy through its social media profiles, put together in partnership with The Architecture Player. The projects represented include both private homes and public spaces and buildings, all involved in the search for and experimentation with new solutions for the home and the city.

02-03-2020

KAAN Architecten - Multifaceted building in Bottière Chénaie, Nantes

The multifunctional building designed by the international KAAN Architecten firm for Bottière Chénaie, a new district in Nantes, was recently inaugurated. The project is part of a larger urban project designed by urban planner Jean-Pierre Pranlas Descours, in collaboration with landscape architecture firm Atelier Bruel-Delmar.

28-12-2018

KAAN Architecten designs CUBE for Tilburg University

"CUBE" is a new Education and Self Study Centre at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) designed by KAAN Architecten, a project that blends into the surrounding landscape and the urban context of the Dutch campus.

20-11-2018

KAAN Architecten Siesegem Crematorium in Aalst, Belgium

KAAN Architecten’s Siesegem crematorium, recently completed in Belgium, is a building dedicated to memory that lives in symbiosis with the imperturbable, reassuring landscape around it.

21-09-2018

KAAN Architecten ISMO Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Paris

A project at the service of science, recently created by Kaan Architecten in Paris. The Dutch studio has designed the new building of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, which will be part of the future campus of the Université Paris-Saclay.

24-08-2017

KAAN Architecten transforms B30, a historical building of The Hague

Transforming the austere look of this monumental historical building was the main challenge faced by the architects in designing the new B30.