Urban Megaprojects – here referred to as Grands Projets – are increasing in number all over the world. They have become major drivers for urban intensification and oftentimes set out to take a city’s expansion to the next level. As such, Grands Projets can be read as manifestations of the larger economic and political agenda of their city and they offer a productive moment to investigate current urban trends in a globally connected form of concentrated urbanization.

The book looks into ...

Luchtwachttorens uit de Koude Oorlog geeft een compleet beeld van het landelijke netwerk van luchtwachttorens waarin tussen 1950 en 1968 duizenden vrijwilligers in weer en wind het luchtruim afzochten naar vijandelijke Russische vliegtuigen. Een nationaal netwerk dat een taak vervulde binnen de internationale luchtverdediging van West-Europa. Van de bijna 300 objecten zijn er nog 70 bewaard gebleven: betonnen torens, bakstenen uitkijkposten en commandocentra. De door architect Marten Zwaagstr...

The energy transition is in full swing. Worldwide, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. The construction of these new energy landscapes is often met with resistance. What if this is not about energy technologies, but about the drastic change of our immediate living environment, the places where we live, work and recreate?

The Power of Landscape examines various energy landscapes in Europe and the US in the present, past and future, based on the qualitative and emotion...

Examines narratives as rigorous drivers of design rather than mere storytelling devices

Provides detailed insight into three KAAN Architecten projects that reflect changing architectural practice in the Netherlands and beyond

Connects to ongoing research from the "Activating Design" initiative at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture

Building Narratives proposes design as a communications engine and enabler of collaboration, as opposed to the traditional understandin...

De site van Villers is beroemd om haar indrukwekkende, negentiende-eeuwse ruïnes van een middeleeuwse cisterciënzerabdij.

Nadat de Franse revolutionaire administratie in 1796 de kloostergemeenschap opheft en de eigendommen als nationaal goed verkoopt, herleidt de nieuwe eigenaar de site tot verkoopbaar bouwmateriaal. De natuur overwoekert de stenen restanten. Los van spijt over wat zo verloren gaat, creëert het verval een omgeving die intrigeert. De ruïnes figureren in negentiende-eeuwse...

The first in a series by the Sikkens Foundation, this pocket-sized publication of the Mondrian Lecture given by Charles Jencks reprints his talk in full, along with various images. Jencks discusses the possibility that architecture and well-being can have a direct correlation, exploring how architecture can influence society, business productivity, profits and hospitals. He elaborates with examples of architectural determinism from both ancient and modern history, with a special focus on his ...

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...

A major overview of the most innovative, ambitious and beautiful houses on the Indian subcontinent.