Twenty eight architects from Scandinavia present their latest projects involving residential, commercial and public buildings all characterised by Nordic flair.

An illustrated celebration of the work of thirty architectural studios featuring established and influential names alongside rising talents.

The province of Gelderland (The Netherlands) inherits many castles, country houses and estates. Together they form historic estate landscapes that partially determine the regional landscape character. Climate change and urbanisation have a significant effect on the management and protection of these heritage landscapes. An abundance and a shortage of water, spatial fragmentation and increasing pressure from recreation and tourism are only a few of the many challenges that need to be addressed...

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Lang voordat museumarchitectuur populair was als toeristische trekpleister, droomden architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage en museumdirecteur Hendrik Enno van Gelder van een spraakmakend museumgebouw. Een gebouw waar bezoekers zich thuis zouden voelen, en waar de kunst ultiem tot z’n recht zou komen. In 1935 werd deze droom werkelijkheid met de opening van een nieuw museum voor moderne en toegepaste kunst in Den Haag. Hoewel Berlage in 1934 stierf en de oplevering dus niet ...

For more than 20 years, work was done at the East side of the Grote Markt square, with the Forum as the cultural heart of the intervention. Commissioned by the City of Groningen, NL Architects designed a new type of building, moving way ahead of the international competition in the multiple assignment early 2017.

At the opening in late 2019, the daring, visionary design concept finally took concrete form: a series of stacked squares, opening up and overlapping a rich cultural programme.

With ...

Although largely overlooked in studies of architectural history, church architecture in a Gothic idiom outlived its 19th century momentum to persist worldwide throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium.

Global Gothic presents a first systematic worldwide understanding of "Gothic" in contemporary architecture, both as a distinct variation and as a competitor to recognized modern styles. The book’s chapters critically discuss Gothic’s various manifestations over the past centur...

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, in Venice from 22 May to 21 November 2021, is titled How will we live together?. As curator Hashim Sarkis explains, "the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021 is its title": organized into five different scales, the Exhibition presents the Participants who will compete for the Golden Lion and also includes a series of research stations developed by researchers from universities around the world.

Volume I of the Catalogue is dedicated to the In...

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods. A sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reve...

Cities around the world are working to build more livable environments, better-quality public spaces, more resilient and sustainable urban economies, lower resource impacts, greater social equity, and other goals of a “new urban agenda.” In this process, the American movement advanced by the Congress for the New Urbanism has been unquestionably influential, if sometimes controversial. This volume presents a distillation of key essays by CNU proponents in their own words, as well as perspe...