OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   The nhow RAI Hotel rises in the rapidly developing Zuidas business district, in the south of Amsterdam. The 91-meter building contains a mixed program with workspaces as well as entertainment. The main part is the hotel, which occupies nineteen of th

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   Upon its completion in 1992, Rijnstraat 8 represented both an innovative office typology – its atriums served as conservatories – and a leading example of sustainability. Over time, the building no longer offered the flexibility required of a contemp

MVRDV   Netherlands   Storing over 151,000 artworks, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen opens to the public in Rotterdam (6 November 2021), a work of the Dutch firm MVRDV. The outcome of a competition held in 2014, the 15,000-square-meter construction rises in the north part of

MAD Architects   Netherlands   The conversion of the Fenix warehouse into a museum of migration incorporates a public atrium and a theatrical stairway that will allow users to move throughout the space. It will be the first MAD-designed public cultural building in Europe...

NL Architects   Netherlands   Built with Wachenzeller Dolomite – very similar to the stone of the church and the town hall –, the facades are interspersed with immense surfaces of optimized triple glazing that keep temperature constant inside the building and make it energy effic

COFOarchitects   Netherlands   The complex is designed as a modular system that guarantees its adaptability to future demands, in which the ‘rambla’ – a pedestrian street that favors social interaction – enters into the ‘kapsalon’ – a center for cultural and production activities.

H3O   Netherlands   The urban area is multiplied for and by the new ways of living, working, and entertaining in the 21st century through a series of levels that are thermally equipped and that densify the city and offer a neutral umbrella for human and animal coexisten

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... [+]

Mecanoo   Netherlands   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

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   Drawn up by an OMA design team led by David Gianotten and Mariano Sagasta, the masterplan for reurbanizing the VDMA site in the center of Eindhoven transforms the area into a mixed-use hub, with housing, offices, and public spaces distributed in 75,0

Goldsmith   Netherlands   On the shore of a harbor zone that is currently undergoing a large-scale regeneration process, an atypical dairy churns out its products sustainably and distributes them in the vicinity. 

MVRDV   Netherlands   The renovation of MVRDV’s offices pursues spatial continuity between the five arched segments that form the complex, and creates spaces for the firm’s 150 employees to interact in.

Jean Nouvel   Netherlands   Surrounded by an extraordinary landscape of polders, the building rises like a vertical sea vessel whose glass walls engage in a dialogue with the typical changing Dutch atmosphere.

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Netherlands   Ijburg is one of Amsterdam’s new urban developments, extending over seven artificial islands in the southeastern part of the Dutch capital. The largest, Haveneiland, is the location of Solids, a seven-building complex that marks the entrance to the d

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Netherlands   The arcade was the starting point of this office building in Oosterdokseiland, an island close to Amsterdam Central Station. The masterplan specified that all constructions within this new urban development area include a public zone. This naturally

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   Seating 63,000 spectators, the new stadium of the football club Feyenoord Rotterdam will be the largest in the Netherlands. The project led by David Gianotten – with Kees van Casteren and Shinji Takagi – of the Dutch firm OMA draws inspiration from t

Studio Anne Holtrop   Netherlands   Fort Vechten is the second largest of 48 fortresses that were erected along the New Dutch Waterline, a military barrier that started to go up back in the 18th century, consisting of an 85-kilometer-long ring that could be flooded to keep the enemy at

MVRDV   Netherlands   The complex shows a large exterior glass facade that interacts with the corporate buildings nearby, and establishes a contrast with the vegetation-covered terraces that define the residential area, achieving a more human scale... [+]

MVRDV   Netherlands   With an area of 29,000 m², the complex includes 240 new homes and 1,700 m² of commercial program. The roofs welcome vegetation and the installation of solar panels, and their geometry favors natural light and views at street level... [+]

MVRDV Diamond Schmitt Architects   Netherlands   Next to St. John’s Cathedral, the new theater dresses its atrium with The Garden of Delights, which can be perceived through the glazed facade as a stained glass window. Its two auditoria can be united in a single space or operate independently... [+

NL Architects XVW architectuur   Netherlands   Inspired in the ‘do-it-yourself’ philosophy, the intervention centers on the facade and the circulation cores, and leaves the finishes inside the apartments for the tenants to complete in the course of time.

DUS Architects   Netherlands   3D-printed bioplastic and a tense textile structure are combined in the design of a sculptural and distinctive facade, inspired in traditional sailboats, for this temporary construction built to host meetings of the European Union’s Presidential Coun

Iria de la Peña Miguel Huelga   Netherlands   This complex that houses productive, residential, and commercial uses proposes an urban model adaptable to the future. A ‘superstructure’ of rigid and durable elements is combined with more flexible and versatile ‘guest constructions.’... [+]

Holt/Smithson Foundation   Robert Smithson’s only earthwork outside the United States opens this summer to celebrate its fiftieth birthday. Between July and October 2021 Robert Smithson’s earthwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) will be open for eight weekends. Located near

Bart-Jan Polman   How many OMA projects do you know? Chances are a few, given you’re engaged in architecture to the extent that you read magazines such as the one in which these words are printed. Fifty? One hundred? Less? Ten? More? The office’s output certainly did

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture is choral: it is conceived, built, and enjoyed by many. Choral in their design, execution, and use, projects admit the intervention of soloists, and it is inevitable to associate exemplary works to a charismatic author, a demanding contr

Reminiscent of those rooms in mansions of the European nobility and bourgeoisie that were full of motley objects in a clutter, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Rotterdam’s leading cultural institution, which brings together the legacy of the two illus

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

The Guardian    Andrew Dickson   In a world first, Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has put its entire collection on display in a mammoth new warehouse...

Headed by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries, the Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV has since 1993 pursued a highly daring kind of architecture, radically festive and well distanced from conventionalisms, that has not run out of steam through

The Spanish-Dutch team formed by the practices Estudio Lamela and KAAN Architecten, in collaboration with the engineering firms Ineco and ABT, has won the competition for the commision to enlarge Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, carrying the day over c

deFlat Kleiburg Residential Complex The renovation of the deFlat Kleiburg residential complex in Amsterdam, by the Dutch firms NL Architects and XVW architectuur, has won the biennial Mies van der Rohe Award. The other four finalists were: the Ely Co

Laura Fernández Suárez   The visionary and illusionist work of MVRDV is overwhelming in its prolific variety. The Dutch company has gone from three founding members whose last names give it its name – Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries – to an international inf

Luis Fernández-Galiano   MVRDV’s work takes us to the other side of the looking glass. As is known, much of recent Dutch architecture is effervescently experimental. Tirelessly inventive and imaginatively innovative, we like to think that its roots can be found in the manufa

A version of Herman Hertzberger’s structuralism? An accidental encounter between a villa by Mies van der Rohe and another by Peter Eisenman (as Reinier de Graaf puts it, partner of the ever surreal Rem Koolhaas)? Or a lavish expenditure of a hundred

From afar the Markthal built by MVRDV in Rotterdam might suggest a kind of arch of triumph, a monument of the magnitude of the Baths of Caracalla. But this is just a mirage. As the visitor approaches the central eye of the building, the impression it

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The most important Dutch architect of the postwar period combined the large scale with iconic works that showed faith in technique and unbound optimism.

During the late 1980s, the German architect Hans Kollhoff designed and carried out works of great material force, among them Piraeus – a vast flexing brick apartment block located in one of the dockland sites of Amsterdam – and the ascetic mass housi

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

Twelve years have passed since Cruz & Ortiz won the competition for the renovation and enlargement of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. During this time the Sevillian partners have had to deal not only with the predictable – the program’s complexity and t

Bajo una gran pirámide acristalada, una montaña de libros invita a la lectura en una estructura de terrazas apiladas: así es el nuevo edificio de MVRDV para la biblioteca pública de la ciudad de Spijkenisse, a unos 20 kilómetros de Rotterdam. Con una

Con un proyecto desarrollado por MVRDV, la ciudad neerlandesa de Almere —de 170.000 habitantes y construida en la década de 1960 sobre unos terrenos ganados al mar— ha sido seleccionada para acoger la próxima edición de Floriade, la feria internacion

‘Naturalmente diversos’ es el lema de la instalación con la que España participa en la sexta edición de Floriade, la feria internacional de horticultura que, desde 1960, se viene celebrando cada diez años en Holanda, y que puede visitarse en la local

Siguiendo la tradición holandesa de ganar espacio urbano al mar, en el barrio amstelodano de IJ-burg el estudio de Marlies Rohmer ha diseñado un conjunto de 75 viviendas modulares y flotantes, completamente equipadas, que han sido construidas en un d

Cruz y Ortiz podrán seguir adelante por fin con el proyecto de ampliación del Rijksmuseum, bloqueado desde 2004 a causa de las protestas de la Federación Ciclista de la ciudad. Una nueva solución planteada por los sevillanos satisface tanto a los cic

Reinier de Graaf   A novel

Wouter Vanstiphout Marta Relats   Randstad Holland, Sao Paolo, Istanbul & Rotterdam

Indira van’t Klooster   Innovators of Dutch Architecture

Amsterdam  2011  
Nai010 Publishers   - 175 Pages 

Ole Bouman   Dutch Designs on the Future

Samir Bantal JaapJan Berg Anne Luijten Kees van der Hoeven   Rotterdam  2009  
Nai010 Publishers   - 173 Pages 

Yearbook 2003-2004

Rem Koolhaas   Colonia  2004  
Taschen   - 544 Pages