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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 demand. Not only in Hamb…
Tuesday October 17‘Noodles or Magnum?’ What a choice I think half sleepily as I hear the stewardess in the distance. Slurping my noodles, I’m impressed by the seemingly endless cinnamon coloured Gobi Desert down below. Having stu…
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 enthusiastically expl…
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). An architectural h…