It took an hour to think up and six years to build: the ultrasleek modernist Villa Kogelhof, hidden away in an agrarian area in the south of the Netherlands. Architect Paul de Ruiter wanted a self-sufficent glass villa, the client -an onion and potato trader – wanted a house with the clean esthetics of a parking garage. They both got what they wanted. Read the article…
In the small town of Erl, just over de German border in Austria, the Viennese firm DMAA – the same that designed EYE in Amsterdam – built a new concert hall for the Tiroler Festspiele. The building’s jagged forms echo those of the surrounding Alps. Read the article…
The Dutch are the canaries in the global-warming coalmine, writes James Russell in his review of Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch in the December print issue of Architectural Record. ‘Sweet&Salt is a profoundly humanitic consideration of the culture of water, with many ideas by designers about how to deal with water’s myriad challenges.’ Read the article…