Mecanoo LOLA Landscape Architects Meng Architects   China   The Dutch firm Mecanoo and the Chinese Meng Architects, in collaboration with LOLA Landscape, are the winners of the international design competition for Shenzhen Guangming Scientist Valley. The ambitious project aims to establish the first comprehen

Mecanoo   United Arab Emirates   The Dutch firm Mecanoo, under the leadership of Francine Houben, has officially unveiled its design for a new museum currently under construction in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District. Like rock formations, it presents geometric compositions such

Mecanoo   China   The new library will rise by Tap Seac Square in the historical center of Macau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its grid facade recalls the exterior of the building that stands on the site, the former Hotel Estoril. Where the main entrance is, the skin

Mecanoo MAYU architects   Taiwan   The 37,000-square-meter building for Taiwan’s oldest city presents an inverted stepped shape designed by Mecanoo, the Dutch firm headed by Francine Houben, in collaboration with the local office Mayu Architects. Held up by quartets of slender white c

Mecanoo   Russia   The Delft-based firm Mecanoo, headed by Francine Houben, has won the competition of masterplans for an educational campus on the shores of Lake Senezh, in the Russian town of Solnechnogorsk. Lecture halls, auditoriums, a library, and apartments are l

Mecanoo LABB   Spain   At the edge of the city, on the shores of the Segre River and close to the AVE station, the La Llotja Theater and Congress Center has as its backdrop the Seu Vella, the historical cathedral of Lérida, located at a hilltop. The project, which won the

Mecanoo LABB   Spain   Francine Houben directs the architecture office Mecanoo since 1984. With noteworthy projects like the library of TU Delft (completed in 1997), after a competition held in 2005 the studio was commissioned to build the La Llotja de Lleida Congress Cent

Mecanoo   Spain   With a perimetral block and interior courtyard typology, the project includes 170 dwellings. The communal spaces of the complex will be covered with gold-colored tiles that will remind of the tone of olive oil…

Mecanoo   Switzerland   Dos suaves montañas de césped cubren las zonas destinadas a aparcamiento, e invitan a estudiantes y profesores a reunirse, pasear, leer o montar en bicicleta; sobre una de ellas se levanta el Learning Center, un edificio en forma de ala que termina e

Mecanoo   Netherlands   The relationship of Dutch architecture and landscape is especially broad and deep; the land is conquered and altered constantly, in such a way that the artificial is not understood as opposed to the natural. The National Ethnographic Museum, founded

Cuca Flores   La particular visión que Erick van Egeraat (Ámsterdam, 1956) tiene de la arquitectura como reflejo de su tiempo, y vinculada ahora por tanto a disciplinas como el diseño y la moda, está muy alejada de los planteamientos teóricos de los colegas holand

Adela García-Herrera   Francine Houben ostenta el liderazgo de Mecanoo y actúa como portavoz de esta nueva monografía del grupo, en la que a través de veinte proyectos se expone su decálogo, los temas que nutren su producción e inciden en su manera de enfocar la profesión:

Francine Houben   Basilea  2001  
Birkhäuser   - 254 Pages