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The courtyard playground, a contrast to the brick exterior|One wall incorporates floor-to-ceiling storage with display shelving|The school is light and spacious, with double-height volumes|The pine joinery is punctuated by walls and furniture in apple green|The 1930s town hall had permission to be demolished, but architects Moke instead opted to incorporate it||

Kindergarten by Moke treats kids like tiny adults

15 Sep 2015

Saw-toothed HQ by B+O Architectuur Interieur

18 Jun 2015

Flexible layouts allows the ground-floor area to be multi-functional|The raw steel reception desk|Glass partitions provide a view beyond the monochrome halls|Ninetynine cut into the ground floor to provide access to the basement|The stairwell provides a mezzanine used as both a studio and a stage for events|Ninetynine sourced vintage and second-hand furniture for the eight editing suites|The design creates a blank canvas on which to showcase Vice work|Ninety nine sourced vintage and second-hand furniture for the eight editing suites|The continuous custom-made desk encourages staff to be team players|The continuous custom-made desk encourages staff to be 'team players'|The photographic studio/meeting room shuttered by a garage door|The red-brick building formerly housed a bank||

Vice gets serious with "tough" new Amsterdam HQ

04 Jun 2015

The design needed to be sympathetic to the architecture, while instilling an eclectic and modern identity|Varying shades of timber create a striped floor in the bar with rogue lines zooming off|Custom-made cabinets in the kitchen echo the floor pattern|The furniture was specified and custom made to blend with the flooring|The colours of the ‘pixelated’ carpet were lifted from the palette of the architecture|Carpet tiles in the upstairs foyer, kitchen and dressing rooms are more vibrant, and used creatively to form patterns and demarcate areas|Carpet tiles in the upstairs foyer, kitchen and dressing rooms are more vibrant, and used creatively to form patterns and demarcate areas|Makkink & Bey’s intention was to complement the ornamentation rather than overpower it||

Studio Makkink & Bey transform historic theatre

16 Mar 2015

Zandlaan school in Ede, the Netherlands|The folded aluminium facade sits on top of a grey brick plinth|Stairs and balconies in red and orange line the large central atrium|The 11,000sq m warehouse-like building unifies four schools under one roof|The corridors and staircases bring life to the otherwise plain white interiors|Classrooms overlook the large atrium|Stairways double as seating areas|Curved walls and soft tones create a calming atmosphere in the learning areas|Curved walls and soft tones create a calming atmosphere in the learning areas||

A tribute to nature: Zandlaan school by LIAG Architecten

09 Mar 2015

The new section of Gebr de Nobel|Corten steel and shiny stainless steel|The 19th century building was a former cement factory|The main auditorium|The main stairwell is designed so it can be used for small-scale acoustic performances|Building materials include brick, metal and wood in a variety of finishes||

Dutch music venue rocks contrast of rough & smooth

07 Jan 2015

'Concrete' floors are in fact made from carpets to give an industrial feel without the hollow acoustics|A slanted view of Amsterdam's port|Black and white creates drama and visually divides the spaces|Desks and low walls of storage have been custom-made from sandblasted oak|VMX's angled glass facade echoes the wheelhouse of a ship with a nod to the location||

i29's strategic design for Mediaxplain HQ

18 Nov 2014

The orange glass porch designed to submerge visitors in a "warm, visionary world"|The mirrored reception desk reflects the chequered flooring, creating the illusion that the pattern continues|The open black stairway that allows light to filter through the space|The table in the black meeting room curls up "like a tongue" and continues up the wall with a large screen embedded in it|Each room is painted a different colour to reflect its use and create its own atmosphere|Yellow is used in the 'concentration' areas|The blue of the meeting rooms supports clear and productive thinking|A strip light placed at a jaunty angle|The floor is covered in bespoke carpet referencing the timber of the old floors|The top floor holds the 'treehouse' for relaxation|Formal areas are given a more subtle colour palette||

Surreal office design for a historic house

04 Sep 2014

The indoor plaza is situated in an old storage room beneath a government building|The plaza contains a range of seating options and breakout spaces|The neutral palette is lifted by slashes of green|The cafe and meeting 'shed' a clad in pale wood|Silver birch trunks act as narrow pillars throughout the space||

Cube designs indoor plaza to look like a park

28 Aug 2014

Dutch architecture practice LIAG has designed the building to resemble a bookcase|The car park is based on the roof to reduce the building's footprint|The facade is made from aluminium composite panels|The building combines the production and editorial departments to help streamline logistics|The brightly coloured exterior contrasts with the light and airy central atrium||

Bookcase office by LIAG Architects

04 Aug 2014

Combiwerk's central "career square", a multifunctional open space|Second-hand chairs, each one different, represent workers' individuality|Desks and storage were all custom-designed|VMX's giant skate ramp - part warehouse, part training centre|"We wanted a special place to show off, but it also had to be modest"||

VMX and i29 add colour to Combiwerk

21 Jan 2013

The building's central hub, dubbed "Eneco World" by its designers|Lots of meeting space in reception helps to foster a spirit of openness|Dam & Partners' building, with a living wall running up the lower floors|Receptionists stand up behind Corian pods, and walk to greet visitors|Breakout space next to the auditorium; both are in dramatic monochrome|Colourful islands of informal meeting space, with Vitra's Polder sofas|Core working areas also sit on "colour islands", with a more sober palette||

Eneco offices by Hofman Dujardin Architecten

17 Oct 2012

Gold standard: the 80-year old Hertzberger in his Amsterdam studio|Apollo Schools - two school building projects for the Dutch government|Centraal Beheer features multiple communal spaces, and a central street|Some of the 60 cube-shaped towers that make up Centraal Beheer|Breda's Chassé theatre, with its "draped" aluminium exterior|Utrecht University's Faculty of Science (2006 -11)|People first: a preliminary sketch for Utrecht's Faculty of Science|Waste company Waternet's twin-towered HQ in Amsterdam (2000-2005)|Vredenburg's Music Palace, where work is ongoing|Delft Montessori School, built in 1996 and revamped in 2007-2009||

Herman Hertzberger: The super-humanist

15 Aug 2012

Sid Lee took the geometry of the triangle as a starting point for the fit-out|The interiors is full of contrasts - cavernous and cramped, black and white|Plywood and bold graphics push Red Bull's links with skate/street style|Working areas are gimmick-free compared to the playful public areas|Angular pods break up large spaces in a pleasingly irregular way|Graphics stretch over both the walls and the floor|Private office spaces play on Red Bull's sponsorship of extreme-sports events|Winged wonder: mosaics turn the men's room into something heavenly||

Red Bull returns

15 Feb 2012

Dense planting at 18 Kowloon East is claimed to absorb noise and pollution|Does green on the outside mean green on the inside?|High-rise in paradise: the Sky Garden at Aedus's 18 Kowloon East, Hong Kong|Solar shading and renewable energy make Ken Yeang's Solaris truly green|With the right plants, sky gardens work anywhere: Yeang's Spire Edge, India|Yeang's Malaysian HQ for tech company DiGi, with its insulating living wall|CGI of Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale project, Milan, to be finished in late 2012|Bosco Verticale under construction, with deep balconies to hold the planting|MDRDV's oversized greenhouse of a hotel in the heart of Dutch tulip country||

Go green: Sustainable design or just a leafy facade?

16 Jan 2012

Original skylights flood the reception and social space with natural light|The ground-floor hall, a multi-purpose space for lectures or socialising|IMd's "playground", a first-floor level linked by bridges and staircases|The opaque plastic used for walls suit the building's industrial heritage|Spaces are unified by flashes of yellow - perfect for construction engineers|The former steelworks has retained its hangar-like appearance||

IMd by Ector Hoogstad Architects

16 Jan 2012

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