Since 1890, the Royal Museum of FIne Arts in Antwerp has been home to a rich collection spanning over seven centuries of art history; from the Flemish Primitives to Expressionists. More recently, the Museum has been enriched by another treasure by the Dutch architectural firm KAAN Architecten. Their restoration work and new design combine a contemporary allure with the glorious but somewhat neglected beauty of the 19th-century landmark. Completely conceiled within the existing museum, the new...

Repository. 49 Methods and Assigments for Writing Urban Places biedt een reeks methoden en opdrachten die bedoeld zijn om nieuwe benaderingen in architectuur, stedelijk onderzoek en andere gebieden van ruimtelijke ontwikkeling te stimuleren en uit te nodigen tot creatieve, actieve en speelse interventies in de materiële en immateriële dimensies van stedelijke omgevingen.

Dit Repository verzamelt 49 methoden – hier gedefinieerd als systematische procedures, technieken en handelwijzen – o...

A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s coastline, all serving the purpose of facilitating maritime transportation. Over millennia, public and private leaders have built harbours, urban spaces and infrastructures in diverse territories to serve hinterlands, including landlocked capital cities and metropolitan areas. As nodes on the edge of water and land, port city territories embody knowledge on maritime flows and water conditions. At a time of climate change, they can be paradigms and st...

Is the world better off with your building? In 99.9% of cases the answer is 'No'. Almost every building pollutes the air, water, soil and damages biodiversity. What if we turned that around and focused on making a positive contribution? If buildings purify the air, water and soil, create biodiversity and generate more energy than we use? Then we will heal the world with our buildings.

What Unilever's Paul Polman describes for companies in the book Net Positive, Vincent van der Meulen describ...