Commissioned by Dutch real estate developer Provast, Blaak 31 that has designed by KCAP Architects & Planners is a 23,000 square meter office building situated on development of Provast, a prominent corner next to Blaak metro and train station alongside Rotterdam’s future Market Hall, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. KCAP’s design responds providing a transparent and lively street frontage housing public functions like a café and a library. Read more »

The “super-functionalist” office building that located in Groningen, Netherlands, named Shaken Office was completed by Zerodegree Architecture. The two buildings of impressive architecture design; an identical set of floor plans, with spaces to be rented from 15 minutes to 15 years on limited resources, for office and scientific laboratory uses. The design of the facade is not final, and the facade panels are perforated steel panels covering 50% of the “second skin”. They aim to rejuvenate the functionalist architecture with a form of energy. A monolith of a sensual translucency, light body and voluptuous shape, the architects call the “super-functionalism, ” the rhetoric “lightness makes a strong impression” on its base. Read more »

The Law courts in Haarlem was designed by Bakers Architecten in Netherlands. The law courts in Haarlem consist of four buildings – two of them listed – and has its main entrance on Jansstraat. Since the most recent renovation, all that remains of the original 1890 court building designed by W.C Metzelaar is the exterior building facade. The complex, which houses the Family, District and Civil courts, has a gross floor area of around 11,000 sq m and is characterised by multiple differences in level, the product of repeated renovations over the years. The resulting ensemble of buildings is completely integrated with the urban fabric of the historical centre of Haarlem. Read more »

With work environment as an ecosystem is the base of the design, the Creative Valley building was designed by MONK architects is a square box with cut-outs that built in Utrecht, Netherlands. Constructive balance in Creative Valley Creative Valley consists of an elongated concrete nave with central facilities. With steel lattices the glass annexes, which contain the different office spaces, are hung on this nave. The design is so sophisticated that the annexes form a constructive balance. Read more »

Django Building, an apartment complex was designed by KCAP Architects & Planners is located in the first district of the Zuidas, in Amsterdam’s Zuidas development area, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Django building with 9 storeys is the lowest city block between the highest building in the area, the 29-storey twin tower Amsterdam Symphony designed by the Architecten Cie, and the 20-storey Duke Tower designed by Ateliers Lion. “This contrast is what we find challenging and exciting”, says Han van den Born, architect and partner of KCAP. Read more »