Kaan Architecten transforms Rotterdam bank into riverside studio
Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has moved into new offices of its own design in Rotterdam, featuring coarse concrete columns, smooth white walls and rich walnut floorboards. More
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Fifteen tonnes of rubble used to build Rotterdam house by Architectuur Maken
The bricks forming the facade of this tall, skinny house in Rotterdam are made from 15 tonnes of compacted industrial waste (+ slideshow). More
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MVRDV creates home-inspired rooms for its new Rotterdam office
MVRDV has moved into a new studio in central Rotterdam, featuring multicoloured meeting rooms, a plant-covered chandelier, an oversized dining table and a staircase that doubles as a seating area (+ slideshow). More
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Balconies and full-storey windows added to villa in a former Dutch museum
Architects Paul de Ruiter and Chris Collaris have transformed a former private museum in Rotterdam into an energy-neutral townhouse, featuring outdoor spaces on each level of its remodelled rear facade ( + slideshow). More
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MVRDV completes giant scaffolding staircase in Rotterdam city centre
Dutch office MVRDV has revealed the first photographs of The Stairs, a huge scaffolding staircase leading up to the roof of an office block in Rotterdam city centre (+ slideshow). More
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Thatched observatory installed on roof of 1930s Sonneveld House in Rotterdam
Mexican artist Santiago Borja has built a thatched observatory on the roof of one of Holland's best-preserved Modernist houses (+ slideshow). More
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"Smart technology is a solution looking for a problem," says Rotterdam Biennale curator
Technologies like driverless cars and smart heating systems could end up making cities dysfunctional according to Maarten Hajer, chief curator of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016 (+ interview). More
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MVRDV to build giant scaffolding staircase in Rotterdam city centre
Dutch office MVRDV has revealed plans to build a huge staircase out of scaffolding in Rotterdam, the latest in a series of exciting new additions to the city. More
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Abandoned buildings can be converted into homes with modular kitchen and bathroom block
Rotterdam studio Kraaijvanger has designed a modular kitchen and bathroom unit that can be inserted into an empty building to turn it into a residence (+ slideshow). More
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17 of the architecture projects helping to transform Rotterdam
From billowing pink bus stops to a bombastic market hall and a smog-eating tower, a barrage of new projects are helping turn Rotterdam into "the city of the future". Dezeen rounds up 17 of the city's most interesting recent additions. More
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Rotterdam is "the city of the future" say architects
Landmark buildings and experimental construction are transforming the Netherlands' second city into a world-class destination for architectural innovation, outstripping other European centres and turning Amsterdam into "the city of the past". More
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OMA completes pixellated Timmerhuis complex in Rotterdam
OMA has merged a municipal office block from the 1950s with a pixellated steel and glass structure to create a new mixed-use building in Rotterdam's city centre (+ slideshow). More
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Erasmus Bridge by Ben van Berkel
Featuring an angular white pylon with a shape that has been compared to a swan, Ben van Berkel's Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam is the latest addition to the Dezeen A-Zdvent calendar. More
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Studio RAP completes "first robotically fabricated building in the Netherlands"
A team of architects and designers have used a huge robot to construct a 130-square-metre building inside a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ movie). More
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Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Tower opens in Rotterdam
Designer Daan Roosegaarde has installed the "largest smog vacuum cleaner in the world" in Rotterdam to help improve the city's air quality (+ movie). More
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MVRDV's Markthal in Rotterdam "monumentalises food" says Winy Maas
In the 10th and final instalment from our exclusive MVRDV movie series, architect Winy Maas explains how the firm's huge arch-shaped market hall in Rotterdam has become a place for meeting and celebration (+ movie). More
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Crowdfunded Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge opens in Rotterdam
Rotterdam studio ZUS has completed what they describe as the "world’s first crowdfunded public infrastructure project" - a 400-metre-long pedestrian bridge in their home city (+ slideshow). More
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Pop Up Luggage Space by TomDavid has walls that recede like an "inverted umbrella"
Curtain-like walls can be drawn up to the ceiling of this luggage-sorting space in Rotterdam's port, minimising its impact on the 1940s cruise terminal building behind (+ movie). More
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Competition: five Rotterdam Architecture City books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Nai010 to offer five readers the chance to win a copy of a book that presents 100 unusual buildings in Rotterdam. More
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Kaan Architecten adds study centre to a hospital part-designed by Jean Prouvé
Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a medical research centre to a Rotterdam hospital, featuring triangular skylights, spiral staircases and a 35-metre-high bookcase (+ movie). More
