Architects: Frits Van Dongen, de Architekten Cie / Ed Veenendaal, Veenendaal Bocanet & Partners
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Project Team: R. ten Bras, P. Koschuch, P. Campos da Costa, B. Bocanet, H. Hrabak, M. Prokop, G. Trevetin
Construction Year: 2003
Contractor: Nelissen van Egteren
Structural Engineer: IMD ingenieursburo Mlonbroek b.v.
Budget: $68,000,000 EURO (US $106,5 M)
Constructed Area: 75,000 sqm
Photographs: Daria Scagiola & [...]

Here’s a third new project by Dutch architects UNStudio: construction is underway on Ta Lee Plaza, a department store in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

In recent years Kaohsiung has developed rapidly to become a major international container port and Taiwan’s second largest city.

The building will centre around a 10-storey atrium, in which each escalator is positioned to spiral [...]

Binaural is a sound-based installation by Shajay Bhooshan and Daniel Widrig at the 5 Days Off Festival in Amsterdam. The installation is a manifestation of a song by Frans de Waard. The aural information has been translated into a physical piece of worked that can be seen and touched. The frequency spectrum from the audio [...]

Amsterdam architecture firm i29 has just released photos of some recent projects of inspirational interiors that impart a sense of serenity. i29’s architectural interiors make the most of built-ins to achieve minimalism, with a flow that puts value on the space as a whole. Light and airy, the settings give a sense of spaciousness without [...]

The project “Kinderstad” (Dutch for “children’s city”) emanated from the Young Architects Competition of the Dutch National Board of Architects (BNA) together with the Ronald McDonald Children’s Foundation (Kinderfonds) in 2003. SPONGE ARCHITECTS & Rupali Gupta in cooperation with IOU ARCHITECTURE (Björn van Rheenen, Rupali Gupta and Roland Pouw) won the first prize and received [...]