ONO – Open Natural Office | Amsterdam
With ONO – Open Natural Office as well as Our New Office – we set a new benchmark for office design: Paris-Proof 2050, energy-neutral, HVAC-free, affordable, biobased, and designed for a naturally comfortable indoor climate. On our road to Paris-Proof design, we realized something fundamental: the more we relied on technology to achieve sustainability, the […]
Ypsilon Park | The Hague
With Ypsilon Park, we elevate adaptive reuse into a holistic architectural system where ecology, structure, aesthetics and spatial quality align. Ypsilon Park is a residential transformation set within the stately green surroundings of Benoordenhout, The Hague. A Y-shaped former office building from the 1970s -connected to J.J.P. Oud’s listed former Shell headquarters – has been […]
Curaçao Medical Center | Willemstad Curaçao
Our architecture in the tropics is a tribute to shade. ‘Laganos topa bou di Palu’ Opened in 2019, the Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) marked a major leap forward for healthcare on Curaçao and in the wider Caribbean region. Replacing a fragmented hospital complex dating back 164 years, the new CMC brings healthcare to a contemporary, […]
BOLD | Amsterdam
Bold is massive. Bold is black. A tower, entirely clad, from top to toe, in solar panels oozing climate ambitions combined with residential luxury. We use the concept of mass to define the ‘specific weight’ of the city. This refers to a social and economic basis for a viable city that can reinvent itself. At […]
Hospital UIMIST Santa Teresa | Bucaramanga Colombia
This hospital serves as an anchor point within the city’s spatial, ecological and social network. Put simply: the women and children who visit, nature, climate and the city itself inspired the design. It shows how tropical architecture can transform climate into an asset. Through shade, greenery and natural ventilation, the hospital becomes a humane and […]
Four Elements Hotel | Amsterdam
A unique and innovative energy concept resulting in the first Zero Energy Hotel, in which we generated a three-dimensional shaped translucent façade. We designed the Four Elements Hotel in a unique and innovative concept called the “Earth, Wind and Fire”, resulting in the first net Zero Energy Hotel, with BREEAM ‘Excellent’ certification at the harbour […]
Galapagos | Leiden
This expressive shaped research building generates an overflow between laboratories and offices within ample daylight along an inviting terraced atrium space. As our future depends on research for new techniques and appliances present-day office or laboratory spaces do not suffice anymore. As the modern tradition thrived on the separation of tasks, spaces and stuff contemporary […]