KAAN Architecten   Belgium   The now controversial Leopold II personally backed an ambitious urbanistic program to improve the quality of life in Belgian cities and promote a cultural awakening, and a fruit of the efforts of the Roi bâtisseur is the monumental building that went

KAAN Architecten   Belgium   The building is conceived as an oasis of calm that manifests itself exteriorly through few but sculptural openings striking a contrast with the lines of the surrounding landscape. Affixed to the terrain, the crematorium is an ode to order and peace,

KAAN Architecten   France   Located within a university campus of 600 hectares, the institute building is characterized by the elegant screen of reinforced concrete that forms its facade. The exterior surface of the building presents a grid whose geometry is slightly different

KAAN Architecten   France   This new complex acts as a transition between a motorway built over the historical Vauban fortification and the Eurartisanat Campus of Lille, which the same architects designed. Coexisting in the building are the emphatic boldness of its geometry, th

KAAN Architecten   France   Accommodating a multipurpose program, the building is resolved with prefabricated portal frames of concrete that play a part in optimizing the use of available indoor space. The monolithic block is composed of a base reserved for retail spaces and a

Claus en Kaan   Mozambique   Construida de forma estratégica sobre una bahía natural, Maputo, ciudad portuaria fundada 1898, se desarrolla en largas avenidas arboladas ordenadas según una malla ortogonal. La embajada de los Países Bajos se encuentra en las afueras de la capital,

Claus en Kaan Kees Kaan   Netherlands   El pequeño recinto que contiene los restos del crematorio es uno de los pocos vestigios que se conservan del campo de concentración de Vught, cerca de Eindhoven, el único que los alemanes consideraron como tal en tierras holandesas. Tras convertirlo

Claus en Kaan   Netherlands   La ciudad de Almere tiene más de cien mil habitantes y una historia de dos décadas. Es una aglomeración polinuclear, en la que las distintas zonas y el tráfico se han configurado jerárquicamente. La separación funcional se mantiene en el centro, cuya

Claus en Kaan   Netherlands   The rietlanden parcel is perhaps the most urban of those comprising the operation of giving the Java, KNSM, Borneo and Sporenburg docks a residential function, in the wake of the transfer of port activities to the west zone of Amsterdam’s harbor in t

Claus en Kaan   Netherlands   The renovation project of the Calslaan residences, a complex of four buildings constructed in 1965, has modified the arrangement and the size of the rooms and has also altered the composition of the facades. The white plasterwork, as much as the open

Claus en Kaan   Netherlands   The storey at the point of the arrow and the artifice of the bands on the glazed southern facade make the tower appear slimmer. The structural walls are faced with metal sheets painted to camouflage their presence in the park...

Based in Rotterdam but running offices in São Paulo and Paris as well, KAAN Architecten was set up by Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen, and Dikkie Scipio as a new professional venture after the 2014 closure of Claus en Kaan, the firm they had worked toge

Having trained at Delft Polytechnic, Felix Claus (1956) and Kees Kaan (1961) joined together in 1987. They have 35 employees in their office in Amsterdam and the two partners share the same teaching background; at the Berlage Institute and the Amster