The Sueli Pontes ecomuseum of the Orla Piratininga park is located on the shores of the Piratininga lagoon in Niterói, near the bay of Rio de Janeiro. The project, a collaboration between the Dutch firm KAAN Architecten and the local studios UrbSP an
Upon the death of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1962, Het Loo – the summer residence of the House of Orange-Nassau – became a property of the State, and some time later it was turned into a museum. Through an extensive renovation, KAAN Archi
As part of a larger urban plan, the 'Bovenbouwwerkplaats' project turns a 1905 building where large elements of trains were manufactured into a cultural center for the Dutch city of Utrecht. The refurbishment of the warehouse involved preserving and
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
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
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
The old Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, West London, will be the home of new Design Museum, tripling the exhibition space of its old headquarters in Shad Thames – and which now contains the Zaha Hadid archives. John Pawson (Halifax, Yorkshire,
Located in the center of Rotterdam, the Timmerhuis is a new building for the city hall that accommodates services, offices, residential units, shops, and parking. Attached to another municipal building from 1953, the new building adjusts to its neigh
