Mecanoo proposes sinuous maritime museum for Rotterdam harbour
Mecanoo has unveiled its proposal for the Maritime Center Rotterdam, a spiralling museum that will be wrapped by walkways and built partially below the water in Rijnhaven harbour. More
-
Key Worker Housing by Mecanoo references Cambridge's "architectural inventions over the centuries"
Yellow brick walls with unarranged white windows enclose communal courtyards and timber-lined walkways at the heart of Mecanoo's housing for the University of Cambridge. More
"We already had an office before we finished school" says Francine Houben in VDF lecture
In our final lecture as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Dutch architect Francine Houben talks about her influences and the founding of Mecanoo. More
-
Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo
A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo.
More -
Mecanoo designs copper-coloured tower alongside Frankfurt station
Mecanoo has released visuals of Frankfurt Grand Central, a residential complex in Frankfurt, Germany, that will feature a copper-coloured tower. More
-
Mecanoo completes giant red cultural centre in China
The Longgang Cultural Centre in Shenzhen, China, occupies a row of four angular red buildings designed by Mecanoo. More
-
Mecanoo builds glass house partly submerged in a lake in the English countryside
Window walls surround all sides of Glass Villa in the Lake, a three-storey house built by Dutch studio Mecanoo in the Cotswolds. More
-
Mecanoo completes world's largest performing arts centre in Taiwan
Mecanoo's 141,000-square-metre National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, described as the "world's largest performing arts centre under one roof", is now open in Taiwan. More
-
Mecanoo's cylindrical apartments designed to recall gas holders
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has transformed a gasworks in the city of Hilversum into a residential neighbourhood, featuring cylindrical apartment buildings intended to resemble the now-dismantled gas holders. More
-
Mecanoo's performing arts centre nears completion in Taiwan
Dutch practice Mecanoo is putting the finishing touches to an arts centre in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, which plays host to a selection of opera houses, concert halls and an open-air theatre set into its bulging roof. More
-
Mecanoo completes modern Palace of Justice in historic Córdoba
Mecanoo's vast law courts in the Spanish city of Córdoba features cut-out courtyards and golden details, in reference to the city's medieval history. More
-
Mecanoo reveals renovation plans for New York Public Library
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has unveiled its masterplan to overhaul the New York Public Library's main beaux-arts building on Fifth Avenue. More
-
Mecanoo designs 12 skyscrapers for new business district in Shenzhen
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has won a competition to masterplan a commercial district in Shenzhen, China, with its design for 12 stepped skyscrapers built around a park featuring a raised path and pools. More
-
Mecanoo installs golden pavilion with scooped roofline on 17th-century Dutch estate
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has created a golden hued events pavilion with a broad scooped roof in the grounds of a historic chateau near Maastricht. More
-
MAD and Stefano Boeri propose crinkled towers and vertical forests for Milan's disused railway yards
MAD, Stefano Boeri Architetti and Mecanoo are among five architecture studios to unveil proposals to completely transform unused railways across Milan, creating high-density housing and swaths of greenery. More
-
KRONA centre by Mecanoo and Code features zigzagging concrete staircases
Mecanoo and Code: Arkitektur have completed a library and cultural centre in Kongsberg, Norway, which centres around an atrium with concrete staircases running across its walls and through its centre (+ slideshow). More
-
Architects including Mecanoo and Studio Weave propose solutions to Britain's housing crisis
Walter Segal-inspired cottages, co-living and custom-built terraces are among the solutions to Britain's housing crisis proposed in an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London (+ slideshow). More
-
Mecanoo replaces Foster + Partners on New York Public Library renovation
The New York Public Library has selected Mecanoo – the Dutch architecture firm behind Europe's biggest library – to lead the renovation of its iconic main building on Fifth Avenue and a smaller branch nearby. More
-
Mecanoo designs huge engineering campus for The University of Manchester
Dutch firm Mecanoo has unveiled plans for a £350 million engineering school at The University of Manchester in the UK. More
-
Mecanoo scales back additions to Mies van der Rohe's Washington DC library
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has revised its competition-winning design for the renovation of Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. More
