Koen van Velsen finalist Mies van der Rohe Award 2011 As one of the six finalists for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2011, Rehabilitation Centre Groot Klimmendaal in the Netherlands was selected. The highest European distinction in architecture was the Mies van der Rohe Award. To distinguish [...]

Arriyadh Development Authority has held an international competition with the theme “The design of the new headquarters for Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat)” in 2008. The prize was awarded to heneghan.peng.architects with Buro Happold engineers. The building, which is located in the Diplomatic Quarters in Riyadh, is designed to respond the urban form of the [...]

Pacific Place is a complex of office towers, hotels and a shopping centre located in Hong Kong. It becomes as a premier shopping destination in Hong Kong. Renovated by British designer Thomas Heatherwick , the building design features waves of stone ripple around the corners of a Hong Kong shopping centre. To carry out fluidity’s [...]

It was addressed at Zaru street 12, Riga. The Year was in 2007-2009. The Project, realization was architect Zane Tetere, Open AD. The Interior was architect Zane Tetere, participating M. Petersons. The Landscape architect was Linda Zala. The Sketches were architect Andis Silis “SZK”.

This building takes a site at Saint-Cloud, a western suburb in Paris, France. The building houses youth center and sports complex which was design in imaginative minds by KOZ Architects. The building id fun for the children and it coexisted with several older educational buildings and a residential development. This public building has 1600 square [...]

Project Text – General The new districts head office along the highway in Assen, The Netherlands, were designed by 24H-architecture for Rijkswaterstaat, who were building and maintaining highways, waterways and nature. Creating a sustainable building that explicitly showed the identity of Rijkswaterstaat was the ambition of the client and the architect. Representing their three core [...]

The Naha is a building in Okinawa, Japan which is purposed as a city gallery and apartment house. This building was designed by 1100 Architect and Juergen Riehm as the principal architect. The building includes a gallery, retail space, partially submerged parking lot, and three rental apartments that each occupies an entire floor. The permeable [...]