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The Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the Grand Prix Award for its Performers House project, a modern version of a Danish folk high school, at this year’s Leaf Awards in London last week. The prize specifically focuses on projects bu…

The UK’s leading architectural firm Foster + Partners is planning to build the world’s largest single building in Moscow. The ambitious project called Crystal Island is meant to become a self-contained city within a city, including a rich mix of buil…

This is not just a bunch of housing projects attached to a new town but the largest housing production endeavor of the coming decades in the Netherlands. 60.000 new homes are envisioned to be built by 2030, one-third (20.000) of which is to be custom…

Author Steven Jacobs had a mischievous twinkle in his eye when he presented 'a monograph about an non-existing architect' in his opening speech. The book is issued by 010 Publishers, which obviously saw some substance in his vision. It’s a claim wort…

As a former occupant of an Amsterdam houseboat, I was wondering if all that much has changed in the big city since I sold my arc four years ago. Is the ground lease still the subject of discussion? Is there a lot of fuss anywhere about boats that hav…

A diamond-shaped white concrete Casa da Música [CdM] slowly emerged in the most central roundabout of the local modern urbanity. From the very beginning, the process was politically and urban disturbed. This fact placed its construction, archite…

The farm building houses numerous facilities, among them changing rooms and a canteen for handicapped people who 'work' on the adjoining nursery. Other facilities include a kitchen, teashop, educational space, shop, warden's house, children's farm wi…

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 past to futur…

All five City-Scrapers had half an hour to present their vision for the plan area, which was followed by a tough third degree interrogation by the Inspector Columbo of building, Gerrit Middelkoop. The aim: to realise something akin to a world exposit…

Individual commissioning is one of the major projects set out in the architecture policy document for 2001-2004 Shaping the Netherlands. These projects fall under the direct responsibility of the government. Individual housing has been 'adopted' by J…

Photos of different parts of the city always show the viewer something that cannot be seen 'in reality'. Firstly, that is because of the picture frame, which turns the photos into something of a window on or reflection of society. Then of course ther…

Wired is a magazine that sounds out, studies and shapes the symbiosis between culture and new technology. A forward-looking, model magazine, it reaches out to a readership that effortlessly navigates between reviews of the latest 'Prefuse 73', the mi…

The Sonsbeek Pavilion – designed as a temporary space to house a series of smaller sculptures for 1966 Sonsbeek exhibition – was open for a single summer only. It then took on a life of its own as a design in the form of a handful of ph…

Everything that Herzog & de Meuron do is experimental. In October 2002 the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal opened an exhibition called Herzog & de Meuron: Archeology of the Mind. The concept devised by curator Philip Ursprung and…