residential complex

In their prac­tice, the three aut­hors – French ar­chi­tects Frédé­ric Druot, Anne La­ca­ton and Jean-Philippe Vas­sal – work on ma­king ca­re­ful and con­ti­nuous chan­ges to the exis­ting city. To them, total de­mo­li­tion fol­lo­wed by new con­str…

A visit to Le Medi made me ask mys­elf the fol­lo­wing ques­tion. What was the as­si­gn­ment that Woon­bron Maa­soevers hou­sing as­so­cia­tion set for the ar­chi­tect to achieve this re­sult? Or was it: Make a hou­sing com­plex in a Me­di­ter­ra­nea…

Schmidt ham­mer las­sen ar­chi­tects won the com­pe­ti­tion to re­de­sign the old com­mer­cial and trans­por­ta­tion port of the town of Hol­baek. In many for­mer in­dus­trial port areas around the world ar­chi­tec­tu­ral work is cur­rently in high d…

The Ber­lage In­sti­tute de­scri­bes this lec­ture se­ries, which ex­ami­nes the ef­fects of glo­bal forces and local rea­li­ties on the con­tem­porary city, as ‘part of cru­cial research’. In rea­lity, howe­ver, every lec­ture turns ou…

My drive to Ut­recht last Sa­tur­day took me along the A12 mo­tor­way. Strewn thought­lessly along both sides of the road­way were miserable-looking boxes de­co­ra­ted with si­gnage that cla­mou­red for at­ten­tion, in­ter­rup­ted oc­ca­sio­nally by …

In 2001 KCAP was in­vi­ted to take part in a com­pe­ti­tion to de­sign a sa­tel­lite town for Shang­hai. The brief ex­pli­citly cal­led for a 'Dutch' de­sign. In the pe­ri­o­di­cal Ar­chis (issue 4, 2002), Shiuan-Wen Chu and Ruurd Gie­tema of KCAP en…

In the early 1970's, while he was teaching at the Co­oper Union in New York, Hej­duk made a num­ber of study de­signs for a house that pla­ced li­ving in the con­text of time by means of a Wall. The Wall sym­bo­li­ses the phy­si­cal tran­si­tion from…

The embassy's lo­ca­tion couldn't be more Dutch. It stands on the Ro­land­ufer over­loo­king the River Spree - the Ber­lin equi­va­lent to the Am­s­tel wa­ter­way in Ams­ter­dam - next to a sluice com­plex si­mi­lar to the one be­side the Carré …

Although Wi­j­de­veld (1885-1987) was per­sua­ded to take on earthly com­mis­si­ons (for hou­sing, in­te­ri­ors and gra­phic work) du­ring his long life, the ex­hi­bi­tion shows only his uto­pian work, and of that, just the high­lights of this so­mew…