

Delft, The Netherlands
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
Factors like the features of the site and budget determined the compact design in which the manipulation of the topography rationalizes the complex program. The skylights and the glazed facade bring in sunlight and frame the views... [+]
Inspired by the small-scale urban fabric of Chinese historic cities, the project uses a permeable grid that allows pedestrian connections inside and outside. The design is divided into two towers and a network of plazas and plant-filled terraces... [
A large bracket stretches horizontally, establishing a narrow connection with the environment; on top of it, the perfect cube that contains the archives is protected, like a precious object, by a facade of natural stone and thin aluminum slats... [+]
Public life in the city of Shenzhen thrives in semi-open spaces, so the center takes the shape of a 150m tower that breathes and lets in sunlight, opening up at street level and inviting pedestrians into a square filled with vegetation... [+]
Next to Frankfurt am Main Central Station, a new mixed-use complex of 58,000 m² is built with two volumes joined by a podium. The tallest, reaching 140 m high, has a dynamic shape generated by the changing geometry of its balconies... [+]
The dynamic digital facade evokes the clouds in traditional Chinese paintings. The building marks the entrance to the commercial district of Qianhai, and symbolizes its innovative drive. The planted terraces bring users contact with nature... [+]
Inspired by the textile production of the international company, the tower – 238m tall – is covered with a bronze metal grid, interrupted by a succession of stepped terraces that offer panoramic views of Shenzhen Bay... [+]
With a palette of simple and honest materials, the articulation of the form and a clear structural expression on the facade, the design seeks to create a flexible environment for learning and research that reveals what happens inside... [+]
Perfectly integrated into the existing street pattern and inspired in the wooded landscape of the Veluwe area, the station is protected with a roof formed by wood triangles that, like a canopy of leaves, lets light pass through... [+]
To go unnoticed but without sacrificing an architectural language of strong personality: this was the fundamental consideration in the course of designing the villa in Vught, a municipality in the southern Netherlands. To this end, rather than concen
The firm Mecanoo, based in Delft but also working from London and New York, has completed a cultural complex in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. The National Center for the Arts is a huge complex that attests as much to Taiwan’s economic power as to
Known for the formal freedom with which it tackles its projects, the Dutch firm Mecanoo has demonstrated more restraint in building the new Palace of Justice of the southern Spanish city of Córdoba. The Delft-based practice has distributed the comple
The Dutch office Mecanoo has recently presented an alternative proposal to generate electricity through wind: the EWICON (standing for ‘electrostratic wind energy converter’). The first prototype has been installed in front of the faculty of Electri
En el concurso celebrado en 2005 para construir en Lérida un Palacio de Congresos resultó ganador Mecanoo; la Llotja recientemente inaugurada muestra su deuda con la modernidad holandesa de los años sesenta.
El estudio holandés Mecanoo, dirigido por Francine Houben, ha iniciado recientemente las obras del que será el mayor espacio teatral de Asia, el Centro de Artes Escénicas Wei-Wu-Ying en Kaohsiung, con 1,5 millones de habitantes la segunda ciudad de T
Junto al río Segre y próximo a la estación del AVE, se levanta el Teatro Municipal y Centro de Negocios y Convenciones La Llotja. Obra del estudio holandés Mecanoo —dirigido por Francine Houben— en colaboración con los barceloneses Labb Arquitectura,