For Bicycle Landscape, Yorit Kluitman cycled through all of the Netherlands' 388 municipalities and photographed the landscape between them, exclusive of people and buildings: a cross section of the organized Netherlands. He is driven by fascination for the organized, graphical structure of open space and the apparently two-dimensional world that envelops the urban areas of the Netherlands.What started with cycling turned into taking pictures, then came the questions and observations that wer...

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Since its reopening, 380 years to the day from its original completion, Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden has been hailed as a landmark project, both for its radical and meticulous approach to weaving 21st century architecture into a centuries old fabric, as well as for its fully integrated vision of what a present day museum experience can be.

Young Dutch architecture bureau Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architects teamed up with internationally renowned restaurat...

Acid Clouds is an atlas and anthology of datacenters that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape. It investigates the massively resource-intensive and earthbound properties of digital storage, and questions the image of large-scale data repositories as clean, sterile and environmentally-friendly domains. The book brings together data of more than 100 datacenters across the Netherlands with texts on ecological, architectural, economical, political and digital righ...

In Wereldkerken in Nederland onthullen Museum Catharijneconvent en SKIN de fascinerende wereld van diversiteit in het christendom in Nederland. Het boek neemt je mee naar kerken waarvan je niet wist dat ze bestonden. Door een reis langs de vele internationale kerken die Nederland rijk is, kom je op de meest onverwachte plekken: niet alleen in historische stadscentra, maar ook op industrieterreinen of in een voormalige drukkerij. Het boek is een vervolg op het monumentale standaardwerk Kerkint...

Restauratie van een Utrechts stadsicoon

Een eeuw na afronding van de vorige grote restauratie was de Utrechtse Domtoren toe aan groot onderhoud. Wat komt er anno 2024 bij kijken wanneer een grootschalig binnenstedelijk maar vakspecifiek restauratieproject

moet worden opgetuigd?

Icoon in de steigers doet verslag van de restauratie van de Domtoren, die werd voorbereid vanaf 2016 en uitgevoerd tussen 2020 en 2024. De organisatie van het project, de onderzoeken die zijn gedaan, de plannen die zij...

Unique glimpse behind the scenes of the KMSKA: an eleven year-renovation project presented in words and pictures

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has undergone an eleven-year renovation period resulting in a total makeover. The museum as it stands today is in all respects new: there is an entirely new museum volume, the monumental museum building has been restored to its historic magnificence, the exterior has been conserved and the garden newly landscaped.

KMSKA – The Finest M...

Polders can be found in coastal and alluvial lowlands all over the world. Water levels are artificially controlled so people can live and work in these reclaimed areas. This often centuries-old interaction between man and water had produced a rich variety of polder landscapes with their own cultural identity and spatial, functional, and ecological characteristics. These landscapes are under threat due to climate and economic change along with the standardization tendencies of globalization.

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Presents over 100 of the world’s most significant residential buildings, now published in a compact format to create a handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design.

A survey of residential projects by Australia's leading minimalist architect, Sean Godsell.