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   Luxembourg   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... [+]

Mecanoo   China   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... [

Mecanoo   China   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... [+]

Mecanoo   Germany   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... [+]

Mecanoo   China   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... [+]

Mecanoo   China   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... [+]

Mecanoo   United Kingdom   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... [+]

Mecanoo   Netherlands   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... [+]

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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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,

Adela García-Herrera   A efectos de publicaciones de arquitectura, la mención de los Países Bajos sugiere de inmediato fotos de satélite con aglomeraciones urbanas, vistas aéreas de prados cultivados y más prados con vacas en el horizonte. Sin desviarse de esa imagen ya fa

Hans van Dijk   At what age are you still a young architect? Several answers have been proposed: young equals under forty; you are young when you haven´t yet built your first big building. Young architects cannot afford to refuse commissions. Young architects, the

Bart Lootsma   Londres  2000  
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