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The Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen have won the architectural competition for the “Meetingpoint Malmö”, a new building that will be situated in the harbour district of the city of Malmö in the south of Sweden. The 21.500 square metre buildin…

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…

Architecture is not only a profession but also a window on the world, and it can be deployed as an instrument to effect social change. It’s a message you’ve been spreading for years in lectures, though activities such as the RSVP events…

Given that Koolhaas thinks of the Berlage as his back garden, we weren't in for a real presentation but simply some 'collected material'. It began in very serious fashion. Who starts a lecture by showing a picture of the Parthenon? He does. It turned…

A study by Arnold van Bezooyen in 2001 into a database of materials was where Materialexlorer.com started. Research and development of the database took place in the ID-StudioLab of the Faculty of Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology, …

Both the front and back walls of the big concert hall are entirely glazed. The double expanse of glass behind the orchestra is no less than 15 by 22 metres in area. It is made of curved and laminated strips of glass 1200 mm wide and 400 mm deep. The …

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…

In the same week as the presentation of the bulky design book False Flat, five prominent foreign curators concluded that Dutch art is in a state of slumber and is of no international importance. The reason, they claim, is the harmful effect of the Du…

My first visit to Jordan two years ago made a deep impression on me, particularly the countryside and the hospitality of the inhabitants. Meeting people who have next to nothing yet who still share their food with you is a very special experience. So…

Over the past five years the SLA Foundation has compiled examples of what it calls 'Smart Architecture' on its website smartarch.nl. Availing of every imaginable technique in an open-minded way, Smart Architecture advocates construction that has as l…

The complex designed by Duiker in the woods near Hilversum is being restored in phases. Major repairs started in 1995 with the restoration of the service block by students from the Delft University of Technology, and work on the main block was comple…

Since the re-launch of Archis in 2001 the magazine's makers had been hoping to induce intensive interaction with readers through the website. This spring editor-in-chief Ole Bouman presented the model for the new site in De Balie. In addition to prov…

Parked in front of each screen in the exhibition is a model of the most commonly driven car in the city that features on that particular screen. Visitors sit into the cars and film footage transports them along roadways through the nine cities. From …

Once again, this year's Architecture Film Festival offers a public programme of classic films under the theme 'film and architecture', including Wings of Desire (W. Wenders), Alphaville (J.L. Godard) with DJ Scanner (UK), The Conversation (F.F. Coppo…

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…