This leisure centre in Amsterdam by Dutch architects VenhoevenCS was designed as a fortress covered in plants (+ slideshow). More »
SportPlaza Mercator
by VenhoevenCS
Tag: Netherlands
SportPlaza Mercator
Mogeen Salon by
Dirk van Berkel
Dutch designer Dirk van Berkel has converted a fireplace shop in Amsterdam into a salon and hairdressing school with copper pipes snaking across the walls and ceiling. More »
Het Arresthuis hotel in a former prison
by Van der Valk hotels
A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. More »
RDM Innovation Deck
by Groosman Partners
Dutch architecture firm Groosman Partners has suspended an office complex beneath the eight-metre-high ceiling of a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ slideshow). More »
City Camouflage
by Roeland Otten
Dutch designer Roeland Otten uses mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints to disguise scruffy public buildings like this former public toilet in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More »
Glass Farm
by MVRDV
This shop and office complex by Dutch architects MVRDV is disguised as an old farmhouse, but its walls and roof are actually made from glass. More »
Bridge House
by 123DV
The lower floor of this long narrow house by Dutch studio 123DV is mostly buried beneath two grassy mounds (+ slideshow). More »
Dentist with a View
by Shift
Dutch studio Shift has converted a suburban house in the south of the Netherlands and turned it into a dental surgery with a new zinc-clad wing (+ slideshow). More »
Villa Rieteiland-oost
by Egeon Architecten
A spiral staircase climbs the all-timber facade of this house in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Egeon Architecten (+ slideshow). More »
Gym Hall Nieuw Welgelegen
by NL Architects
This gymnasium in Utrecht by Dutch studio NL Architects has no windows but features walls that swell outwards to let light in from above (+ slideshow). More »
"Scum villages" planned
for Amsterdam
News: Amsterdam's problem families are to be moved to isolated caravans or shipping containers in the outskirts of the city under new plans announced by mayor Eberhard van der Laan. More »
Melkwegbridge by NEXT Architects
and Rietveld Landscape
This bridge in Purmerend, the Netherlands, has a steeply arching upper level for pedestrians and a zig-zagging lower level for cyclists and wheelchairs (+ slideshow). More »
Bent by Chris Kabel
with Abbink X de Haas
Dutch designer Chris Kabel has wrapped this house and studio in Amsterdam with a facade of perforated hexagons that catches the light like a hanging sheet of fabric. More »
Fire Station Dordrecht by
René van Zuuk Architekten
The upper floors are stacked at right angles across garages at this fire station in the Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten. More »
Paviljoen Puur by
Emma Architecten
A loosely curving wall of timber shingles spirals around this visitor centre that Dutch studio Emma Architecten has constructed beside one of the coastal batteries of Amsterdam's historic defence line (+ slideshow). More »