Mecanoo is happy to announce the promotion of Nuno Fontarra, Rick Splinter and Arne Lijbers as new partners. Together with Founding Partner/Creative Director Francine Houben and Design and Research Director/Partner, Dick van Gameren, Mecanoo now consists of five partners. These appointments... View full entry »
Wednesday, February 27th, the masterplan for Nieuw Land National Park was approved with an overwhelming majority by the Provincial Government.“Nieuw Land will be a new kind of national park, one in which visitor experience is central. The park will be an attractive and educational experience for... View full entry »
Sunday 14 October 2018 Last night, a ceremony and the inaugural concert marked the official opening of Taiwan’s national arts centre, the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts (Weiwuying). Incorporating a 2,236-seat Opera House, a 1,981-seat Concert Hall, a 1,210-seat Playhouse, a 434-seat... View full entry »
On an average working day, NS takes 1.2 million passengers to their destinations. And that number is higher every year. In order to keep the Netherlands properly accessible for everyone in the future too, NS is always thinking ahead about how journeys can be made better and more pleasant. NS... View full entry »
Eden Holland Foundation plans to realize a world-class educational botanical park with a spectacular greenhouse in Almere. Designed by Mecanoo architecten, Royal HaskoningDHV and Kossmann.dejong exhibition architects the project will feature a greenhouse and a 'wonder lab'.Eden Holland will... View full entry »
The consortium ‘Blue District’ - consisting of MRP Development, Ballast Nedam Development, Mecanoo architecten and several consultants – has won the tender for the Cartesiusdriehoek in Utrecht. This former marshalling yard of the Dutch Railways will be transformed into the first urban blue... View full entry »
Taiwan announced the opening in October 2018 of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). In a single sweeping building designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo, Weiwuying incorporates five separate state of the art performance spaces, covering a surface area of 35 acres (141,000 sqm)... View full entry »
The new Palace of Justice in Córdoba is located in Arroyo del Moro which is characteristically dominated by anonymous housing blocks, products of the rapid urban development of 21st century Spanish cities.The blocks that characterize the urban fabric of the zone were not capable of generating... View full entry »
The consortium Jongen-Mecanoo-ABT-Dijkoraad has won the contract for the new City Hall of Heerlen. The existing Town Hall of Peutz, a listed building from 1942, will be renovated and connected to the new City Hall. Both buildings lie like yin and yang in a new sloping city landscape. The new City... View full entry »
With a scheme of twelve staggering skyscrapers, an elevated pedestrian network and a beautiful green urban park, Mecanoo architecten has been named the winner of the urban design competition for the Shenzhen North Station business district. The 1,36 million square metres development encompasses... View full entry »
Perth & Kinross Council have selected Mecanoo architecten for the renovation of Perth City Hall. The category B-listed building will be transformed into cultural facility with exhibition spaces, learning suite, café and retail space.Mecanoo envisions the project as means to create a new... View full entry »
With its stark linear facade patterns, the Namdaemun Office Building in Seoul stands out from the vibrant market district that surround it. The office tower is Mecanoo’s first completed project in South Korea’s capital.Located next to the ancient southern gate to the city of Seoul, the... View full entry »
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tainan Public Library in Taiwan was held on Friday, May 26, 2017. The library, designed by Mecanoo architecten in partnership with Kaohsiung-based MAYU architects+, will be built by Fu Tsu Construction and is due in 2019.Rational yet elegant structural lines... View full entry »
Keukenhof finally has a proper main entrance. Mecanoo designed an elegant gatehouse to welcome the large flows of, mainly international, visitors to the world-famous gardens. The striking timber roof structure of interwoven isosceles triangles provides shelter and creates an ever-changing play of... View full entry »
Architecture practice Mecanoo has teamed up with furniture manufacturer Gispen to work on creating the learning environment of the future: one which is dynamic, open and people-oriented. The result is an innovative modular furniture collection called HUBB.Design for (un)predictable changeLearning... View full entry »
The documentary film “A Legacy of Mies and King” will have it US premiere screening at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Wednesday March 1, 2017. The film deals with the modernisation of Washington DC’s central library, which was designed in the sixties by architect... View full entry »
New Yorkers are getting their first look at a completely renovated, vastly improved Mid-Manhattan Library – The New York Public Library’s largest circulating branch – which is set to undergo a transformation that will increase seats, expand services, and add public space. The... View full entry »
With its organic, curvilinear shape and landscaped canopy, the new Kaohsiung Station will introduce a generous amount of public green space to Taiwan’s second city. Designed by Netherlands-based Mecanoo architecten, the station reaches out to the city in a powerful gesture, acting as a green... View full entry »
The University of Manchester has received planning permission from Manchester City Council to create a £350 million engineering campus designed by Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo. The new engineering campus will be a Manchester landmark, celebrating engineering within the world’s... View full entry »
London housing association Peabody has submitted ambitious plans for the regeneration of Thamesmead in south east London. Making use of the possibilities the improved transport links that Crossrail will bring, Mecanoo Architecten and Proctor and Matthews Architects, alongside landscape architects... View full entry »
Mecanoo architecten has won the competition to design the new Tainan Public Library in Taiwan. Working in partnership with Kaohsiung-based MAYU architects+, the Dutch practice will create the 35,000 m2 library, which will feature reading rooms, special collections, study spaces, a children’s... View full entry »
People Place Purpose describes the specific architecture of Mecanoo illustrating the way they seek for identity in a global world. From the texture of a local stone, to colours of a fruit tree, or rituals of inhabitants.A total of seventeen projects, all built in mutually different... View full entry »
The New York Public Library will begin its Midtown renovation, and as a first step will begin designing the renovation of its central circulating branch, the Mid-Manhattan Library. Following a year of discussion and planning led by librarians and informed by expert and public feedback, the Library... View full entry »
The University of Manchester has announced that it is to invest £350 million to create a new engineering campus designed by Mecanoo. The Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD) will be one of the largest, single construction projects ever undertaken by a higher education institution... View full entry »
On Thursday 21st May, Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle officially opened HOME, Manchester’s new centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film. Over 25,000 people visited the arts centre during its inaugural HOMEwarming weekend. HOME features two theatres, five... View full entry »
Delft’s new train station is now in useOn Saturday 28th February 2015, the Delft’s new railway station was officially opened to the public. The station, in combination with municipal offices and the new city hall, sits atop a new train tunnel built in place of the old concrete viaduct... View full entry »
Saturday 25th April, the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Boston will officially be opened by Mayor Martin J. Walsh. Designed by Dutch practice Mecanoo, together with US based firm Sasaki Associates, the building houses the Boston Public Schools (BPS) department and plays a central role... View full entry »
On Saturday October 18th, the exhibition “A People's Palace” will open at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin. “A People's Palace” exhibits models and movies of recent public buildings by Mecanoo, including the Library of Birmingham. Aedes Architecture Forum, founded by... View full entry »
The Spoorzone project office has assigned a team consisting of Mecanoo and engineering consultancy Movares to redevelop Ede train station and its immediate surroundings. Together the City of Ede, Dutch national railway infrastructure organisation ProRail, and principal passenger railway operator... View full entry »
Work has started on Mecanoo’s first design to be built in China. The Three Cultural Centers & One Book Mall complex comprises of a public art museum, a science museum, a youth centre, a book mall with 5 floors, retail units and underground parking facilities. The 95.000m... View full entry »
