kitchen

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…

The ar­chi­tec­tu­ral cont­ri­bu­tion at this year’s fur­ni­ture fair IMM Co­lo­gne was de­li­vered by UN­Stu­dio ar­chi­tect Ben van Ber­kel, who ge­ne­ra­ted an urban mas­ter­plan for all three storeys of hall 11, as well as „The World’s Lon­gest T…

The 'Junkie Hotel' on Ma­lie­baan can ac­com­mo­date 28 home­l­ess people ad­dic­ted to hard drugs. The scheme is part of a mu­ni­ci­pal drive to pro­vide re­lief for 200 home­l­ess ad­dicts from around the city. In ad­di­tion to of­fe­ring shel­ter,…

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 hou…

A new breed of al­lot­ment gar­den is ta­king shape at the foot of Prins Claus Bridge in Ut­recht. Gro­ene­woud Gar­dens pro­vi­des green sur­roun­dings for of­fice vil­las in­ter­s­per­sed among the al­lot­ments. Par­ti­cu­lar at­ten­tion was paid t…

With films like Mon Oncle (1958) and Play­time (1967), Jac­ques Tati (1907-1982) made a si­gni­fi­cant cont­ri­bu­tion to that small but ce­le­bra­ted group of films in which ar­chi­tec­ture plays a pro­mi­nent role; other lea­ding works are Me­tro­p…

The hou­ses huddle stiffly, like a co­lony of mi­gra­tory birds, on the muddy flats under a stark au­tumn sky. A won­der­ful sight, the per­fect set­ting for a film by Alex van War­mer­dam (di­rec­tor of de No­or­der­lin­gen, een halve eeuw later). A…

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 party in­vi­ta­tion sta­ted that the af­ter­noon would ex­amine the po­ten­tial in­flu­ence of ar­chi­tec­ture jour­nals on the ar­chi­tec­ture de­bate and cli­mate. It would look for an­s­wers to ques­ti­ons about the re­la­tion bet­ween de­ve­l…

Besides de­ve­lo­ping a ca­ta­lo­gue of ma­te­ri­als, soon avail­able on in­ter­net, 2012 en­ga­ges in re­se­arch and pro­duc­tion. The in­te­rior of Duchi shoe shop is com­po­sed for 90% of waste. But it doesn't look the least bit shabby: floors, wa…

Fuksas has built the forth­co­m­ing Bi­en­nale around the theme 'Cities': the city as con­text cha­rac­te­ri­sed by per­ma­nent cri­sis. Ac­cor­ding to Fuk­sas, ar­chi­tects can­not be per­mit­ted to adopt a cy­ni­cal at­ti­tude towards the city - th…

The 25kV buil­ding is a for­mer electri­city con­trol sta­tion, now re­no­va­ted to house works­paces for (new) media com­pa­nies and vi­sual ar­tists working with new media. The ori­gi­nal buil­ding was little more than a blank con­crete vo­lume wit…

MBM (Mar­torell, Bo­hi­gas & Mackay) from Bar­ce­lona, Rudy Uy­ten­haak and MVRDV were in­vi­ted to sub­mit de­signs for a va­ried pro­gramme of owner-occupied and ren­tal dwel­lings, com­mer­cial pro­per­ties, and pu­blic func­tions. MVRDV were …