A year after the official launch of KAAN Architecten’s second outpost in São Paulo (Brazil), the Dutch firm completes two new buildings, which will house the new campuses of the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi in São José dos Campos and Piracicaba, in the inland of São Paulo State. The projects... View full entry »
KL AIR, consisting of KAAN Architecten, Estudio Lamela, ABT and Ineco, with the support of Arnout Meijer Studio, DGMR and Planeground, has won the commission to design the new terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The building will be located at Jan Dellaert Plein, south of Schiphol Plaza, the... View full entry »
The Dutch architectural firm expands its growing business by opening its second outpost in São Paulo (Brazil). The practice, founded by architects Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen and Dikkie Scipio in 2014 quintessentially reveals a natural connection with Brazilian modernist architecture and... View full entry »
The B30 - Bezuidenhoutseweg 30 has been designed by KAAN Architecten as the entry of an international competition (Public Private Partnership - PPP) launched by the Central Government Real Estate Agency, won in 2014 by a consortium led by Facilicom with Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau... View full entry »
Distinguished and functional, hard and ethereal, rough and refined: the new home of the highest court in the Netherlands exhibits a tight relationship between openness and security. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has been designed by KAAN Architecten as the entry of an international Public... View full entry »
The short film, directed by Victor Vroegindeweij (The Office for Nonfiction Storytelling, Hazazah Pictures), is a two and a half minutes narrative capturing the Education Center of Erasmus MC, an intervention designed by KAAN Architecten, that transformed an abandoned external atrium... View full entry »
RECENTEducation Center Erasmus MC shortlisted amongst the 40 projects for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015KAAN Architecten's project will be part of the touring exhibition for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award opening on the 7-8th of May in... View full entry »
RECENTNomination for Mies van der Rohe Awards 2015 with the Education Center Erasmus MCEducation Center Erasmus MC has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. The award highlights excellent architectural works that... View full entry »
RECENTKees Kaan interview in the October 2014 issue of de Architect magazine de Architect magazine has included, in its October 2014 issue, an extensive interview with Kees Kaan about the start-up in architecture, how in 1987 he founded together with Felix Claus their... View full entry »
RECENT Website launchKAAN Architecten launched the new website at the end of April. A completely new and fresh design displaying all works, news, academia and publications. The website is a full architectural and visual experience through more than 20 years of... View full entry »
Three months after the start-up of KAAN Architecten, the new architectural office based in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) led by Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen and Dikkie Scipio, we are pleased to announce theofficial launch of the brand new website www.kaanarchitecten.com.The website is a... View full entry »
City Hall Park of São Bernardo do Campo occupies a position of strategic significance in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The planned intensification of mobility throughout the site inevitably renders its emergence as the new center for São Bernardo do Campo.The design... View full entry »
The Government Buildings Agency has selected the design of KAAN Architecten for the Facilicom Consortium PPS B30 as winner of the PPP contract for the Bezuidenhoutseweg 30 project in The Hague.This National Heritage Site, built for the Department of Agriculture, Nature Management and... View full entry »
Together, KAAN Architecten and EGM architecten are about to draft a design for the new Nantes hospital. They will do this in consortium with the French J.Pierre Pranlas Descours Studio (JPPD) for urban development, the Dutch engineering office Valstar-Simonis, the French engineering office EVP... View full entry »
An independent jury composed by figures from the world of architecture, technology and media based in the Netherlands and in Belgium, among whom chairman prof. Jan Brouwer (architect, NL) and vice-chairman Thomas Dierickx (architect, BE) assigned the non-residential buildings category award to... View full entry »
SUITABLE CHIC IN THE LIJNBAAN Rotterdam’s Lijnbaan area has been enriched: bejewelled not with an artificial gem but with a distinguished eye-catcher. The structure, next to Schouwburgplein, on the corner of Kruiskade-Karel Doormanstraat, grabs our attention by way of its unpretentious yet... View full entry »
Claus en Kaan Architecten have completed the first phase of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Renovation and was officially opened by the Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture in Belgium, Joke Schauvliege on Monday. Phase one consisted of removing a post Second World War... View full entry »
Dutch architects Claus en Kaan have unveiled plans for a crematorium that is to be built in the marshy pastures of Aalst, Oost Vlaanderen, mid-way between Brussels and Gent in Belgium. The serene scenery sets a quiet and calming background for the intense and retrospective moment of cremation... View full entry »
