Ute Schneider has been interviewed for an article in the eMagazin of swiss-architects. The article appeared in the category 'getroffen' (visited) which introduces various Swiss offices. Click here for the ...
KCAP's project 'Housing with a Mission' Beijing is included in the exhibiton 2020: Housing in China in Hong Kong. The exhibition takes place at the University of Hong Kong, faculty ...
On April 22nd, Dutch minister Stef Blok visited together with BNA various architects and architecture projects, among which The Red Apple in Rotterdam. Some pictures are published now on Flickr. Take ...
Han van den Born has been interviewed by Russian online medium ART1 in St. Petersburg about KCAP's view on cities, architecture and urban planning. Click here to view the publication (in ...
The German public channel ZDF produced a documentary about Hafencity in their program 'Länderspiegel' in which they show various German cities. It shows nicely the current status of the development. Click ...
Ruurd Gietema will give a presentation at STUK Leuven within a lecture series organised by Stad en Architectuur that reviews how architects and architecture operate in fast changing and rapidly expanding ...
![KCAP selected for Quartier du Stade Evry [FR]](/images/s_002786image.jpg)
KCAP has been chosen by the Agglomeration d’Evry in France as one of 3 candidates for the urban design of a 133 ha former industrial area around the future Federal ...
Floating Park for Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven harbourUnique urban concept will enhance inner-city living KCAP Architects&Planners, international consultancy, engineering and project management firm Royal HaskoningDHV and project initiator Emergo presented a floating park plan ...
Ute Schneider is one of the speakers and participants in the round table discussion at the FORUM BATIR ET PLANIFIER 2013 in Lausanne. The speakers will explore the function of ...
The Gouden Piramide ('Golden Pyramid') is a state prize awarded each year for excellence in commissioning work in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, infrastructure and physical planning. Every building client ...
Ruurd Gietema's 'desakota' lecture at Dutch DFA 4/4 year report is now online on youtube.Click here to view the video.
Lecture Jeroen Dirckx at International Conference 'Urban Development' in Prague, 11 April
09-04-2013
Stavební Forum in Prague holds on April 11th an international conference on Urban Development. Jeroen Dirckx, urban planner at KCAP, is one of the speakers in the session 'Large development ...
After presenting the ideas and concepts of 'City as Loft' in Switzerland and the Netherlands, Kees Christiaanse and Martina Baum will also present the book in the US. 8 April: Princeton ...
The noninations of the Gulden Feniks Award 2013 have been announced. The jury has nominated a total of 10 projects. De Monarch I is one of the nominated projects in the category ...
The DutchDFA programme presents its fourth and final year report 4/4 on April 4th in The Hague. Five years after the launch of the DutchDFA programme, the continuing economic crisis, political ...
Pro Arte Foundation in St. Petersburg organizes a series of events in the framework of the bilateral year Netherlands-Russia 2013. In this context, Han van den Born will present on Wednesday ...
Around 50.000 leaves in the shape of the leaves of a ginko tree will decorate the ceilings of the parking garage. The first leaves have been mounted. Check out the wUithof for ebsite ...
Frank Werner will present KCAP's project NEO Brussels at the retail congres WinkellocatieMarkt België 2013 in Antwerp on March 21st. Click here for more information about the program and registration.
Kees Christiaanse at MIPIM 2013
11-03-2013
Kees Christiaanse will present KCAP's masterplan for the Quartier Gare TGV in Montpellier at MIPIM 2013 in Cannes. Stand of Montpellier Agglomération: 07.02/09.01 Date: March 13th Time: 4 pm Click here for the press statement ...
Request for more compact cities
08-03-2013
Experts at the Immobilien Forum West yesterday in Innsbruck, Austria, demand more compact cities.The 'future of the inner cities' was the focus of the 5th Real Estate Forum West in ...
Kees Christiaanse is one of the keynote speakers at today's real estate forum in Innsbruck, Austria. He will speak about sustainable strategies in urban planning. Click here for the official website ...
Vote for KCAP to win a wildcard in the 'BNA Gebouw van het Jaar' award 2013! *De Monarch I Den Haag - vote here!*Studentenhuisvesting Delft - vote here!*ZOwonen Sittard - vote ...
The architecture centre TOPOS in Maastricht highlights the topic '(re)developments' in a series of lectures throughout the year. Based on KCAP's involvement in the London Legacy Framework, the masterplan for the Olympic area ...
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Vote for Student accommodation Delft for a wildcard in the BNA Gebouw van het Jaar award 2013
04-03-2013
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Up from today the lines are open to vote for your favorite building in the BNA Gebouw van het Jaar (BNA Building of the Year) award. Give your vote for a ...
The masterplan by KCAP/ASTOC is nominated as one of 10 international projects for prestigious Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, organised by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in ...
Last week, removal of the scaffolding of the extension to the historical school building has started. The new building expands the existing school on a complex inner-city location in Rotterdam's ...
The free Hong Kong magazine Metro Pop has published a 2 page feature about KCAP in the category 'Life Style Architecture'. Click here to view the magazine. To find the article, choose ...
On February 10th the Chinese New Year's Day will be celebrated. KCAP wishes everyone a healthy and happy new year!
On Friday, February 8th, Ruurd Gietema will give a lecture about 'Managing projects in architecture: creativity and visualization, modern & innovative means of design, project’s life-cycle' as expert in the ...
Two weeks ago the Tulip Inn logo was mounted to the facade of the new Eindhoven Airport hotel. The hotel is estimated to open in the summer of 2013. View the ...
Gebouw F in Breda organizes in coorperation with Urban Design faculty of the NHTV a lecture series to explore the 'new role of urban planning'. KCAP's lecture on Thursday, January ...
We shared some construction images at the facebook page of De Heelmeesters residential project in Amsterdam. The project is estimated to be completed in the spring of 2013.
Building progress P+R De Uithof
23-01-2013
Take a look at the current status of new Park & Ride facilities on Utrecht's campus De Uithof. The building is estimated to be completed in September 2013.
Irma van Oort speaker at BNA Architectendag
19-01-2013
The BNA (Association of Dutch Architects) organises on January 24th the a conference with as title: The New Architect, a new realisty (BNA Architectendag: De Nieuwe Architect, een nieuwe realiteit). Irma ...
KCAP 2013
14-01-2013
KCAP wishes everyone a successful, positive and healthy 2013! 2012 has not been an easy year. But we are happy to have ended it well with new projects, several buildings ...
From January 14th - 19th, the German building fair BAU 2013 will take place in Munich. Within this year's topic 'The Future of Building' various forum discussions and symposia are ...
On Wednesday, January 23rd, the travelling exhibition 'Building the City anew – a Journey into the City of Tomorrow. HafenCity and IBA, Hamburg' will be opened at ETH Zurich.The exhibition ...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
21-12-2012
We would like to thank you all ― clients, partners, colleagues and friends ― for your engagement, the fruitful collaborations and challenging discussions we experienced together over the last year. Merry ...
The 2013 Archipendium 365 day tear off calendar 'architecture' is released with KCAP's Red Apple on July 24th. Check out the official website.
The 3D design of P+R De Uithof, by Hurks delphi engineering, was awarded with the Tekla GLOBAL BIM Awards 2012 in the category 'concrete'. The design of the park + ...
KCAP at Hong Kong Business of Design Week
04-12-2012
KCAP participates also in the 3rd edition of Dutch Design on the Move pop-up exhibition, from December 3-8 at Hong Kong Business of Design Week.Within the series Inno Talks at Inno Design ...
KCAP's Red Apple is one of 24 nominated projects in this year's edition of the Rotterdam Architecture Award with as topic 'housing'. Cast your vote here for the audience award!
The city of Perm was shortlisted as one of 15 projects in the 2012 GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR URBAN INNOVATION. The jury received 255 initiatives submitted from 153 cities and ...
![Today opening first stores at Killesberg Stuttgart [DE]](/images/s_002609image.jpg)
The shopping center - now called Killesberghöhe (former Forum K) - is part of the Think K mixed-use development in which KCAP builds three apartment buildings with 24 residential units. ...
![Han van den Born speaker at VIII Krasnoyarsk City Forum [RU]](/images/s_002622image.jpg)
On November 29th and 30th the VIIIth Krasnoyarsk City Forum takes place. Han van den Born is one of the speakers and will present the Strategic Masterplan Perm and talk ...
Today, the new book over the first decade of Hafencity Hamburg will be officially launched in Hamburg.
KCAP joined from November 19 - 23 the Dutch economic trade mission to Brazil. Within the program for the delegates of the disciplines architecture and design a mini symposium at ...
Book release: City as Loft
26-11-2012
Today is the Dutch launch of the new release: 'City as Loft', edited by Martina Baum and Kees Christiaanse. 'City as Loft. Adaptive Reuse as a Resource for Sustainable Urban Development' Published ...
After P+R De Uithof was already awarded with the 'Tekla Benelux BIM Award 2012' in the category 'concrete structures', the 3d-model is now in the race for the 'Tekla GLOBAL ...
On November 21st the official start sign for the construction of Noorderhaven Zutphen was given. Within the urban plan of KCAP for the area the first two residential buildings will ...
The European bulletin of French 'Le Moniteur' features an interview with Kees Christiaanse about his view on urban planning and architecture. Click here to view the article (in French).
The BDA (German Architects Association) organizes a 3-day international architecture forum in Hamburg with the topic 'Dense City - Intense City. Architecture for a new quality of urban life'. Kees ...
In late September the construction works of the Embankment City Park in Perm, Russia have started. At this moment the asphalt and concrete curbs are deconstructed and the site is ...
On Monday, November 12, Inntel Hotels and Volker Wessels Vastgoed have signed an intention agreement for the development and realization of a hotel on the Noordelijke Havenhoofd(NHH) in Scheveningen. The ...
The travelling exhibition Dutch Design on the Move is presented again - after Beijing Design Week and Guanzhou Kanton Fair - at 100%Design Shanghai, from November 8-10. KCAP is again part ...
KCAP’s masterplan FredericiaC in Denmark has received an 2012 Excellence on the Waterfront Honor Award in the category ‘plans’. This annual award, organized by the US-based Waterfront Center since 1987, ...
Building progress P+R De Uithof Utrecht
02-11-2012
P+R De Uithof's structure has reached the second floor. Start construction was in late August 2011. Delivery is estimated for the summer of 2013.
Building progress De Heelmeesters Amsterdam
02-11-2012
Construction of the housing project De Heelmeesters (formerly called Eenhoorn) in Amsterdam is progessing. It has started in the spring of 2011. Completion will be in summer 2013.
KCAP in Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2013
30-10-2012
Hans Werlemann's art work 'Neutrino 2011' of KCAP's Red Apple is included in the Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2013 and is one of 365 unique art works presented in the second ...
KCAP was selected by Dutch BNA as one of 8 architects to participate a Dutch-Turkish matchmaking workshop in Istanbul. The 2-day session took place October 17 and 18. View here some ...
On Wednesday, October 18th, the exhibition 'The Dutch Way of Housing the Crowd' will be officially opened at Erasmus Huis in Jakarta. The exhibition will be shown until November 7th ...
During the 48th ISOCARP Congress, that took place 10-13 September 2012 in Perm, Han van den Born and Maria Pidodnia gave an interview about the role of KCAP's Strategic Masterplan Perm ...
The extension of the existing terminal building and the new 120 rooms hotel at Eindhoven Airport reach their highest point on Wednesday October 10th. Construction has started in late 2011. ...
On October 3rd the sound and art installations in Nieuwegein's parking garages City Hall and Theatre were officially opened with performances by Spinvis and city poet Ingmar Heytze. Click here to ...
Tirana Architecture Week is a 3-days event from October 9th - 11th with conferences, exhibitions and workshops organised by Polis Univeristy Tirana and the municipality of Tirana. One of the main ...
The WAN AWARDS Urban Regeneration celebrates and promotes the best in international urban design, landscape & infrastructure projects. In the category of unbuilt projects, KCAP's FredericiaC masterplan is longlisted as ...
You are welcome to join the lecture of Kees Christiaanse at Expo Real, Monday October 8th at 3 pm at Holland Property Plaza, hall A2, stand 320. Topic: 'Simultaneous Chess'Development processes, ...
Dutch NOS Journaal of October 3rd reports on the Dutch contribution to 2012 Beijing Design Week, including the 'Dutch Design on the Move' exhibition which showcases the 'Housing with a ...
Start construction Hogekwartier Amersfoort
03-10-2012
Today construction of Hogekwartier in Amersfoort officially starts. KCAP Architects&Planners is responsible for the urban plan and is involved as supervisor in the implementation of the plan. Hogekwartier is an ...
The contract for the realisation of the new Ibis hotel on Rotterdam's Wijnhaveneiland has been signed by Accor Hotels and J.P. van Eesteren. The ensemble consists of 139 hotelrooms, commercial ...
KCAP at Beijing Design Week
27-09-2012
KCAP is one of the Dutch participants of the travelling pop-up exhibition 'Dutch Design on the Move', organised by the Dutch Design Workspace, the DutchDFA and the Embassy of the Kingdom ...
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Meet KCAP at Expo Real 2012 in Munich [DE]
25-09-2012
The team of KCAP is pleased to welcome you between 8th and 10th of October at Holland Property Plaza, stand 320, hall A-2. Special highlight is the lecture of Kees Christiaanse ...
De Monarch I is one of 42 projects in the John-Jacob-Astor Competition. The John-Jacob-Astor Competition awards the most extraordinary and fascinating contemporary commercial real estate projects completed between 2007-2012, including new and ...
![KCAP appointed for Quartier Gare TGV Montepllier [FR]](/images/s_002460image.jpg)
KCAP Architects&Planners in collaboration with landscape architects ILEX and sustainability advisor Oasiis are selected for the development of the area Quartier Gare TGV. The commission, chaired by Jean-Pierre Moure, President ...
The crisis in the housing market affects Vinex locations to a large extend. At the same time there is a renewed interest in (collective) private commissions. How can urban planners ...
During the second edition of the Dutch Green Building Week the project De Monarch I will be highlighted in a afternoon congres program. De Monarch I received during the Dutch real ...
The metropolis Istanbul grows exponentially. Not only the demand for extension of cities is increasingly urgent, the restructuring of existing urban areas is an urgent challenge. The architecture and construction ...
Last week a Russian web-resource UrbanUrban has published an interview with Kees Christiaanse about the implimentation of the Perm Strategic Masterplan and the future of Russian cities. UrbanUrban is a blog about ...
![Keynote lecture Han van den Born at ISOCARP conference Perm [RU]](/images/s_002323image.jpg)
Han van den Born is one of the international keynote speakers at the 48th ISOCARP Congress in Perm. The congress will take place from September 10th through 13th. The theme of ...
Click here to watch the lecture of Ute Schneider at KTH Stockholm on August 29th.
Development plan FredericiaC released
08-09-2012
In late August the proposal for the development plan for FredericiaC was released. The plan shows how the development of FredericiaC over the next 20-25 years can create a radical, positive and ...
On September 8th, at 2pm, Irma van Oort will give a short introduction into the design of the student accommodation in Delft. The student accommodation on the campus of the ...
KCAP launches Russian version of www.kcap.eu
23-08-2012
KCAP Architects&Planners is happy to announce the launch of the Russian version of our website!After finalizing the Perm Strategic Masterplan and several other projects in Russia, our work in the ...
Ute Schneider will give a lecture at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm on August 29th. The lecture takes place within a 3 day series of open seminars on the infrastructure development ...
The current issue of the Dutch monthly magazine De Architect publishes an article about the technical aspects of KCAP's De Monarch I office building in The Hague.
From August 24th until September 2nd, the annual Tampere Architecture Week will take place. Ute Schneider, director KCAP Zurich, will be one of the international keynote speakers within this year's ...
The Dutch daily paper Volkskrant talks with Kees Christiaanse about the developments after the Olympic Games in London this summer. Click here for a scan of the article (in Dutch).
![Start construction office renovation New Time [FR]](/images/s_002283image.jpg)
The renovation and extension of the 1970's office building on Ile de la Jatte in Neuilly-sur-Seine has started with taking down the original facade on the back side of the ...
On Monday 9 July 2012 Ruurd Gietema will give a lecture at ARCAM about the redevelopment of the Olympic Park in London. What happens to the area after the Olympic Games this ...
Kees Christiaanse will co-lead, in his function as program leader of the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), a forum at this year’s World Cities Summit in Singapore. The forum will be ...
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KCAP prequalified as one of 10 top teams for 'New city center for Kiruna' competition [SE]
28-06-2012
KCAP as one of 10 international architects' teams is prequalified to develop a new city center for Kiruna in Sweden. The 100 year old city centre is sinking as a result ...
How have airports developed? And what can we learn from these developments? Kees Christiaanse, supervisor architecture and urban design of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and professor at the ETH Zurich, addressed ...
Kees Christiaanse will give a lecture within the Shenzhen –Urbanism/Architecture Design Master Forum Lecture Series about 'Urban Breeding Grounds'. The lecture series is organised by the Urban Planning Land and Resources ...
On June 20th/21st KCAP participated in the second Sino-Dutch expert meeting which took place regarding the development of a low carbon city in Shenzhen. In total a number of 50 Chinese ...
On Saturday, June 23rd, the exhibition 'Nolympics' will open in London. It showcases unrealised Dutch Olympic architecture and can be seen until July 6th. "This exhibition project, the Dutch contribution to ...
The 2012 edition of the Dutch Design in China Yearbook, initiated by Dutch Design Work Space (DDWS) in Shanghai, features more than 40 top design companies from the Netherlands that ...
KCAP’s urban design for the transformation of the Garonne waterfront in Bordeaux-Brazza is finalized and officially approved by Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux, and by Bordeaux’s City Council. The project ...
Kees Christiaanse is one of the speakers at the 'Konvent der Baukultur' in Hamburg. With the title 'STATTVERKEHRSTADT' the conference aims to elaborate qustions of design, functionality and sustainability of ...
Kees Christiaanse was invited to contribute an article in the category 'across the border' to AM Inspiring Space magazine. In his article he writes about Shanghai and the transformation of ...
This week the wood construction is placed at KCAP's extension to the Nieuwe Park Rozenburgschool in Rotterdam. Click here for more information about the project.
Kees Christiaanse joins a debate on June 12th to discuss 'Who makes our future?' which takes place on the occasion of the launch of the book 'Dutch New Worlds. Scenarios ...
Han van den Born will lecture at Moscow's famous Strelka Institute. The lecture, followed by a debate, is to explore experiences with design and development of embankments in cold climate ...
The Dutch Green Building Council (DGBC) awarded during the Green Forum at Provada on wednesday June 6th the developer Provast with a four star (Excellent) BREEAM-NL Nieuwbouw certificate for the De ...
KCAP designed for Dutch developer Provast the mixed-use Peter Stuyvesant Building on Rotterdam's Wilhelminapier. The Peter Stuyvesant Building is a mixed-use high-rise development with apartments, offices, restaurants and recreation facilities ...
The renovation project De Monarch I in The Hague is featured in Dutch monthly magazine Bouwwereld, edition 06-2012. Click here for the article in Bouwwereld or go to the project.
On Wednesday, May 23rd, Irma van Oort is one of the speakers in a series of parallel sessions during the 'Day of Real Estate Development' (Dag van de Projectontwikkeling). Her ...
KCAP Shanghai celebrates 1st anniversary
12-05-2012
On Saturday, May 12th it is one year ago that the branch office of KCAP Architects&Planners in Shanghai was officially opened and the Chinese website www.kcap.eu/cn was launched. In this ...
The exhibition WATERWORKS, which was first shown in March in the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) opened today its second presentation at the FACULTAD DE ARQUITECTURA (UNAM) in Mexico. The exhibition ...
Second phase of the NEO Brussels launched
08-05-2012
On Monday 7th May 2012 the local council of the City of Brussels decided to launch the two procurement contracts which constitute the second phase of the NEO project (redevelopment ...
Highest point THINK K Stuttgart, Germany
02-05-2012
‘THINK K’ Stuttgart has reached its highest point. The celebration takes place this afternoon in Stuttgart. Construction of the new city quarter on Stuttgart’s Killesberg has started in July 2011 ...
In April Kees Christiaanse was invited to join a debate at the NZZ Equity Leadership Dinner Real Estate. The event is one of a series of equity dinners organised by ...
Last Saturday, the weekend supplement of Dutch TROUW published an interview with Kees Christiaanse in the colum 'leven & lezen' (living & reading). There Kees talks about his favourite books ...
Last week the the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) exhibition opened at ETH Zurich. It showcases the ongoing research carried out at the Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore. The aim is to ...
Bernd Upmeyer and Beatriz Ramo spoke with Kees Christiaanse about the rural, the non urban, the country side… in the current issue of MONU with the topic 'Non-Urbanism'. Click here ...
KCAP now also on Facebook
13-04-2012
KCAP is now also on Facebook. Join us via: www.facebook.com/KCAP.eu
The architects café of The Hague organises a tour through KCAP's recently delivered Monarch I office building, which is in use by CAK (Centraal Administratie Kantoor). Program: 17:30 doors open 18:00 start program introduction ...
Ruurd Gietema is one of the guest speakers at the seminar 'money talks!' on April 5th. The seminar Urban Planning & Economics examines the relationship between urban instruments and economic ...
KCAP's ZOwonen headquarters in Sittard, in the South of the Netherlands are completed. The new premises of the housing corporation were taken into use in the beginning of March after ...
KCAP as part of a group of Dutch architects active in China joins a stand at the China Sustainable Building Forum & Expo 2012 in Shanghai which is part of ...
KCAP longlisted in WAN 21 for 21 awards
26-03-2012
KCAP has been longlisted for the WAN 21 for 21 Award 2012. The award aims to highlight 21 architects who could be the leading lights of architecture in the 21st ...
On March 20 and 21, the exhibition "WATERWORKS" opens in the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico. The exhibition is part of the water project "Vivir con Agua. Mexico y ...
On 16 March, Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and Swiss University ETH Zurich inaugurated the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC), in the new Campus for Research and Technological ...
KCAP's vision for 'Brussels 2040' will be exhibited from March 16th to April 15th 2012 in the exhibition ‘Brussels 2040. Three visions for a metropolis.’ KCAP Architects&Planners, together with ARUP, ...
On invitation of AetA Society, Kees Christiaanse compiled his findings about Rotterdam in a book. This publication is the third in the FORUM series of AetA, after Amsterdam of Ton Schaap and ...
KCAP is one of the international experts to participate in the Czech conference about the re/utilisation of former rail and industrial areas."Prague is currently experiencing a very dynamic development. From ...
The CAK administration office in The Hague receives the extra prize for 'Roofs and Facades' of the Benelux Aluminium Award 2011. This extra prize is intended for entries with a striking performance or application in the field of ' Facades and Roofs'.The European Aluminium Award is a biennial award for sustainable renovation projects.According to ...
The Dutch monthly Stedebouw & Architectuur features within its February issue 'Parking' an interview with Irma van Oort about KCAP's new parking garage in Nieuwegein. Click here for the article in ...
Kees Christiaanse was invited to write a column in the Chinese Business Herald. Click here for the article in Chinese. Or click here for the article in English.
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) received the 2011 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Organizer Committee Special Award for the exhibition 'Housing with a Mission'. ‘Housing with a Mission’ was ...
Cast your vote on KCAP's parking garage in Nieuwegein for the audience award of the BNA Gebouw van het Jaar 2012. Click here to proceed to the voting!
Public Polish TV will broadcast a documentary about waterfront developments. The main focus is on the Polish city Gdynia and makes reference to the cities of Hamburg and Rotterdam. A ...
![Yesterday official start construction ceremony Eindhoven Airport [NL]](/images/s_002072image.jpg)
Yesterday, the official ceremony to celebrate the start of the construction of the extension of the existing terminal and the new hotel at Eindhoven Airport took place on site. Construction works ...
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KCAP as part of the multidisciplinary team led by Henning Larsen Architects is one of five prequalified participants in the international competition 'City In Between: Eastern Aalborg, strategy for an ...
KCAP's CAK office buiding in The Hague is one of 34 nominated projects for the Benelux Aluminium Award 2011. The winner will be announced on March 6th. Click here for the ...
Dutch Profiles releases film about KCAP
06-02-2012
Today, Dutch Profiles: KCAP Architects&Planners has been released. The film portrait is part of the Dutch Profiles series produced by DutchDFA.View the film here.
The Dutch Design Workspace Shanghai (DDWS), where also KCAP Shanghai is located, has released a film with testimonials of all participants. View the film to get an impression of the workspace. ...
Book 'The Red Apple and Wijnhaveneiland'
28-01-2012
Book 'The Red Apple and Wijnhaveneiland' sold out but available on google books. Click here.
![KCAP participant in Gare Nouvelle competition Montpellier [F]](/images/s_002056image.jpg)
KCAP is one of 3 participants, next to Christian de Portzamparc and Daniel Liebeskind, for the development of a new urban district around a new highspeed station in Montpellier on a ...
On Thursday, January 19th, Kees Christiaanse presented KCAP's design for the urban transformation of the riverbank Bordeaux to Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux and French Minister of Foreign Affairs, who validated ...
The edition 01/12 of FOLIO, the magazine of the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), analyses the tendencies of urban agglomerations in Switzerland and the quality of those developments. Kees ...
Han van den Born is next to Xaveer de Geyter one of two guest speakers at TOPOS Maastricht. The duo lecture event is organised to gain inspiration about possibilities to transform ...
The elementary school Nieuwe Park Rozenburgschool (NPRS) in Rotterdam will expand. A new building will be added to the existing monument of 1931. The monument will be renovated and linked ...
The American monthly Architectural Record reports in its January issue on the Hafencity Hamburg urban development. The article alreday appeared online.Click here for the online version of the article.
'Create a better quality of life in cities' article in Chinese Designer&Designing magazine
16-12-2011
The current issuse of the Chinese magazine Designer&Designing publishes an interview with Irma van Oort about 'Create a better quality of life in cities'. Click here for the article (Chinese/English)
KCAP participated in an Expert Meeting on Monday 12th in Shenzhen, China.The Shenzhen municipal government has the ambition to develop the Longgang district in a world leading eco-city. The main ...
The construction of the extension and redevelopment of Eindhoven Airport terminal and of a 120 room airport hotel has started, both designed by KCAP Architects&Planners and De Bever Architecten. The ...
![KCAP with Schweingruber Zulauf win urban study Torfeld Süd in Aarau [CH]](/images/s_002027image.jpg)
KCAP Architects&Planners and landscape architects Schweingruber Zulauf are the unanimously declared winning team for the urban plan of the study for Torfeld Süd in Aarau. The 50.000 m2 site, mainly ...
The quarter Vidailhan within KCAP’s mixed-use masterplan for ZAC Balma-Gramont in Toulouse is awarded as one of three best projects in the category ‘quality of life in the quarter’(qualité du ...
Within the activities of the International New Town Institute (INTI) at the Shenzhen Architecture Biennale Markus Appenzeller is one of the speakers to review the book 'Rising in the East. ...
Russian cities today are on the brink of change. The gap between contemporary global trends in the development of urban environments and local Russian practices diminishes the attractiveness of Russian ...
KCAP's project Blaak 31 is shortlisted for the Rotterdam Architectuurprijs 2011 (Rotterdam Architecture Award). This year's topic of the triannual award is 'utiliteitsbouw' (buildings for utility). It is an initiative ...
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The exhibition 'Housing with a Mission' is based on a match making program initiated by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in which KCAP as one of five Dutch architects collaborated ...
FORUM magazine has released its first edition in a new format. Within the topic 'Over de grens' (across the border), Irma van Oort has contributed an article about KCAP's activities ...
NEO Brussels has received an enthusiastic market reception as reaction to presentations at real estate exhibitions Expo Real in Munich and MAPIC in Cannes.The next step in the development of NEO ...
![Official opening parking garage Nieuwegein [NL]](/images/s_001984image.jpg)
Today the parkinggarages Stadshuis, Stadstheater and Kunstencentrum in Nieuwegein will be officially opened. They are part of the transformation of the center of Nieuwegein. The parking garages with a total ...
NEO Brussels at MAPIC in Cannes, stand 09.12
11-11-2011
NEO Brussels will be presented at this year's MAPIC Retail Real Estate fair in Cannes from 16th through 18th of November on stand 09.12.Do you want to know more about ...
The 'Facelift van de Haagse kust' (Facelift of the Hague's coast) is the topic of the 2011 edition of the Zeeevent (sea event) in The Hague in which Irma van ...
On November 8th, Kees Christiaanse will present KCAP's project NEO Brussel at the annual Brussel Vastgoed (Real Estate) conference. More information on the program to be found here.
The Dutch monthly magazine Architectenweb Magazine features in its current issue (45) an interview with Ruurd Gietema in which he talks about the changing role of the urban planner and ...
Irma van Oort is one of the speakers at the 'Baksteendag 2011' on November 3rd in Amsterdam. Irma will refer to the use of brick in various KCAP projects and ...
During the "fall lecture series" at The University of Pennsylvania School of Design Kees Christiaanse gave last week students lecture about urban regeneration. To explain the different regeneration strategies several KCAP ...
![Webcam construction Think-K Stuttgart Killesberg [DE]](/images/s_001880image.jpg)
The construction of the mixed-use project Think-K on Stuttgart's Killesberg can be followed via webcam. Construction has started in July 2011. Click here to go to the webcam or to the ...
An interview with Kees Christiaanse was published in the 'Brussel Deze Week' newspaper today. In this article Kees talks about KCAP's plans for the NEO Heizel project in Brussels. He ...
Article 'City Regeneration Today' released in Chinese magazine Youth Landscape Architecture
17-10-2011
The Chinese magazine Youth Landscape Architecture has released the Chinese language version of the article 'City Regneration Today' which was written by Markus Appenzeller and Ruurd Gietema and published originally in ...
Kees Christiaanse lectures in the US
14-10-2011
During the coming week Kees Christiaanse will give lectures at various renown institutes in the United States of America.17 October at New Jersey Institute of Technology18 October at the University ...
![Lecture about Hafencity at AIVP Days in Bordeaux [F]](/images/s_001785image.jpg)
On October 13th and 14th, AIVP, the Association Internationale Villes et Ports, organises a two day symposium in Bordeaux, France. Within the topic 'RIVER, PORT, CITY: THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY' ...
Thursday October 13th, the third event in the series Then/Now will take place at NAi in Rotterdam. Han van den Born will join the lecture and debate about the visionary ...
The office buildings Diana & Vesta approach completion in early 2012. The buildings comprise of 26.000 m2 of office space and are the last two blocks to be realised within ...
The Belgian magazine RUIMTE published an article about KCAP's project NEO Brussels based on an interview with among others Frank Werner.Click here to read the article (up from p. 39) ...
Aging and the impact at city development Date: Thursday, October 6th, 2011Time: 8 - 10 amFormat: lecture by Ute Schneider, followed by discussion at 2011 HPP International Ladies Breakfast Location: Restaurant Lenbach, Ottostrasse 6, ...
![First phase renewal centre Nieuwegein [NL] completed](/images/s_001996image.jpg)
Dutch architecture newssite architectenweb.nl reports on the realisation of the renewal of the centre of the Dutch city Nieuwegein. The project comprises of a new city hall, the retail area City ...
NEO BrusselsDate: Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Time: 12.30 amFormat: lecture by Frank Werner and round table discussion moderated by Property Investor EuropeLocation: conferenceroom press centre westMega Cities: Here for ...
TRANS-formation, TRANS-ition, TRANS... Date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Time: 3 pmFormat: lecture by Markus AppenzellerLocation: Holland Property Plaza, hall A-2, stand 320Info: Holland Property PlazaClick here for an overview of ...
Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic Games are on track and construction on all the new main venues and infrastructure in the Olympic Park is well underway. On the roof ...
Beijing Design Week is an international design event, from 25 September until 3 October 2011, at various locations in China's capital city. Following the theme "SMART CITIES, HEALTHY CITIES", and co-ordinated ...
The renovation project of the office building in The Hague which will house the CAK (central adminstration office) has been nominated in a group of 5 projects for the Cobouw Award ...
Frank Werner, associate at KCAP and reponsible for the project NEO Brussels, will give a presentation about the urban plan for the Heysel area on September 27th. Location: Brussels Expo ...
![Meet KCAP at Expo Real 2011 in Munich [DE]](/images/s_001673image.jpg)
Meet KCAP at Expo Real 2011 in Munich [DE]
15-09-2011
KCAP Architects&Planners joins again the Holland Property Plaza during Expo Real 2011 in Munich. The team of KCAP is pleased to welcome you between 4th and 6th of October at stand ...
![HER-bestemming festival at Noorderhaven Zutphen [NL]](/images/s_001655image.jpg)
On Sunday September 11th, the area of Noorderhaven Zutphen development hosted the HER-bestemming festival (re-generation) with various workshops, kids acitivities and the old cooling house being open for public. Artist ...
KCAP Architects&Planners in cooperation with local architects Ateliers 115 have realised the office building ETIK in Boulogne-Billancourt. ETIK accommodates 10.000 m2 of offices and 500 m2 retail facilities on eight ...
KCAP at Archicup 2011
12-09-2011
As in previous years, KCAP participated also in 2011 at the soccer tournament of Rotterdam's architects offices. With good support and in the nice atmosphere of Rotterdam's Zuiderpark, KCAP contributed ...
![Start construction P+R De Uithof Utrecht [NL]](/images/s_001589image.jpg)
Today construction work will start for the P+R facilities De Uithof in Utrecht, Netherlands. The design has been developed by KCAP Architects&Planners in cooperation with Studio SK and Ingenieursbureau Utrecht ...
![Markus Appenzeller keynote speaker at Urbanism Week 2011 in Delft [NL]](/images/s_001577image.jpg)
The theme of Urbanism Week 2011 is: SO, YOU ARE AN URBANIST?! This is an open question, sharply reflecting on the importance of the urbanism discipline, looking back, but even more ...
The Swiss daily paper NZZ features an interview with Kees Christiaanse and Wim van Dis (investor in tourism) and shows how Dutch mentality influences urban planning and tourism in Switzerland. Click ...
De Architect magazine about Hamburg
11-08-2011
Hamburg is the topic of the current issue (July-August) of the Dutch monthly De Architect. Various articles highlight the design of the urban future of the city in the North ...
Russia's search of a new identity
08-08-2011
The recent issue of Dutch A10 magazine (July-August) publishes an article about Russia's 'search of a new identity' with among others KCAP's Perm Strategic Masterplan as example. Click here for the pdf ...
Dutch weekly HP/De Tijd interviewed three Dutch architects, among which Kees Christiaanse, about working in Russia. Click here for the article in HP/De Tijd of July 29th.
Author Dirk Meyhöfer publishes an article about the Red Apple in the German monthly architecture magazine DBZ within the topic of the July issue 'highrise'.Read the article here.
On July 19th project developer Fürst and the mayor of Stuttgart placed symbolically the first stone of the project Think K Killesberg. In March 2011 the preparation activities on the ...
Stadionpark on TV Rijnmond July 12th
13-07-2011
Rotterdam's local TV channel TV Rijnmond broadcasts in the summer of 2011 a series of 4 documentaries about Stadionpark Rotterdam. All 4 parts contain an interview with an architect, commenting ...
Interview Kees on Deutsche Welle TV
06-07-2011
Deutsche Welle TV broadcasted on June 25 an interview with Kees Christiaanse. Kees was interviewed as international expert on city reconstruction, based on the debate which is currently going on in ...
'I am not interested in stand-alone-architects', says Kees Christiaanse in an interview with the Swiss architecture and design magazine 'Modulor'. Find here the full article of Mudulor 04 2011.
Press coverage NEO Brussel
24-06-2011
The presentation of NEO Brussels to the media has aroused a lot of media interest.See here a selection of the press coverage:Télébruxelles Television TV Brussel RTBF Television RTBF Radio dearchitect.nl ...
KCAP presents design for NEO Brussels
23-06-2011
KCAP Architects&Planners present today their vision for NEO Brussels, the redevelopment of the Heysel plateau, to the political arena, the press and the public. The team, KCAP working together with ...
KCAP opens its doors to the public during the national Dutch Day of Architecture on Saturday June 25. Han van den Born will give a presentation and tour through the ...
Irma van Oort is invited as guest speaker tonight at the AetA (Association Architectura et Amicitia) discussion in Amsterdam about building abroad. Three Dutch architects - Irma van Oort (KCAP), ...
The Dutch Green Building Council has awarded KCAP’s project CAK office building 'De Monarch' with the BREEAM-NL sustainable new building (Nieuwbouw 2010 v2.0) certificate. The renovation project is one of six ...
On Wednesday June 8 the Dutch Association of Architects (BNA) organises a seminar on operating on international level. The plenary session will be opened by Irma van Oort. In her ...
The 21 Century is called the "century of cities". By the middle of this century it is expected that 80 percent of the to nine billion people growing world population ...
![KCAP with Ramboll and Fakton win urban competition FredericiaC [DK]](/images/s_001502image.jpg)
KCAP Architects&Planners, together with advisors Ramboll and Fakton, win the international competition for the urban development plan ‘FredericiaC’ in the Danish city of Fredericia. The urban plan is a development ...
Video masterplan San Sebastian released
19-05-2011
KCAP’s masterplan for the regeneration of San Sebastian’s Bay of Passaia has been documented in a video to show to the general public and residents.View here the:English versionSpanish versionBasque version
Being David and Goliath
17-05-2011
'How can small companies flourish in big countries' is the subtitle of Markus Appenzellers essay for Dutch DFA's Yearreport 2010. He explains why size matters for Dutch designers working abroad ...
Impressions of opening KCAP Shanghai
16-05-2011
KCAP, together with DDWS, welcomed around 120 guests at the opening of KCAP Shanghai on May 12th. In a nice and relaxed atmosphere the guests were invited for the launch ...
KCAP Shanghai officially opened today
12-05-2011
KCAP Architects&Planners celebrates the official opening ceremony of their Shanghai based office today, May 12th. On this occasion the Chinese version of their website www.kcap.eu will be launched. KCAP Shanghai ...
The City of Bordeaux, France, has appointed KCAP for an urban study on the site of Bastide Brazza-Nord, a 120ha former industrial area between the river Garonne and an abandoned ...
KCAP Architects&Planners win the international competition for the regeneration of the Sungang and Qingshuihe areas in Shenzhen. The international jury of urban planning experts awarded the proposal of KCAP with ...
Official opening KCAP Shanghai on May 12th
27-04-2011
On May 12th, KCAP's Shanghai office will officially be opened and attended by the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, Maxime Verhagen. The event will include futhermore the ...
On April 29th, Markus Appenzeller, director international projects at KCAP, is one of the panel members in the presentation of DutchDFA's results of 2010. He is invited to specifically comment ...
On Friday April 15th Kees Christiaanse will be one of the experts in a round table discussion during the seminar ‘Building at waterfronts’ in Essen, Germany. The seminar takes place ...
The Tagesspiegel Berlin features today an article about Rotterdam as city of architecture, about the city renewal and its futuristic approach to architecture. KCAP as Rotterdam based office and our projects ...
On April 11th Ruurd Gietema will give a lecture at the Business Breakfast Brussels Europa which has the topic 'Urban development: Trends and best practices'. The seminar will take place on April 11 ...
Within the lecture series of 'Visions and Visionaries' of the German Architecture Center DAZ in Berlin, Kees Christiaanse will give a lecture about Open City.The lecture will take place on ...
On Tuesday, March 29th, KCAP's winning competition design for Belval Square Mile was officially presented during a local press conference.Click here for the RTL.lu recording at the press conference.From April ...
![Competition entry Saint Jean Belcier exhibited in Bordeaux [FR]](/images/s_001412image.jpg)
On Friday April 1st the architecture centre ARC EN RÊVE in Bordeaux opens the exhibition 'Bordeaux Euratlantique'. It shows the four design entries for the urban competition for Saint Jean Belcier, a ...
Kees Christiaanse is invited as keynote speaker at the conference about Business, Technology, Transformation and Management (SOA-Days 2011) in Bonn, Germany, on March 30th. Title of his speech is 'urban ...
Irma van Oort, together with client DUWO and contractor BAM woningbouw, presents the concept of KCAP's student accomodation to students of TU Delft. The presentation and visit of the construction site ...
On March 25th and 26th the start symposium Oberhafen Hafencity will take place in Hamburg. Kees Christiaanse is invited there as keynote speaker. The symposium marks the start of the ...
The Pavillion de l’Arsenal in Paris shows until April 17th 2011 three strategic studies for Le Faisceau, a 3 km territory between the Arche de la Défense and the Seine ...
Sunday's paper Sonntagszeitung (Zürich) features an interview with Kees Christiaanse about his practical work, his approach to urban planning and his research activities. Read here the pdf of Sonntagszeitung.
NRClux weekend paper interviews Han van den Born about living in The Red Apple. Click here for the pdf of the article.
Contracts signed for Noorderhaven Zutphen
17-03-2011
On March 18th, the Municipality of Zutphen, housing corporations Woonbedrijf Ieder1, Ons Huis and the combination Heijmans Vastgoed and Proper-Stok will sign cooperation contracts for the development of Noorderhaven Zutphen. ...
![Kees Christiaanse gives 'Archilecture' on March 21st in Eindhoven [NL]](/images/s_001315image.gif)
Kees Christiaanse will give a lecture within the framework of the lecture series 'Archilecture' organised by Architectuurcentrum Eindhoven in cooperation with the Technical University Eindhoven / Casa Vertigo. The lecture ...
KCAP in cooperation with Studio SK of Utrecht are building the largest parking garage of Utrecht. Construction of the building will start soon. Utrecht has currently four P&R locations at ...
Opening KCAP Shanghai arouses media interest
10-03-2011
The announcement of KCAP's third office KCAP Shanghai arouses media interest in the Netherlands. Read here a few articles with interviews of Markus Appenzeller, director international projects of KCAP, about ...
![Start construction of two projects in Amsterdam [NL] and Stuttgart [DE]](/images/s_001276image.jpg)
Two projects - Lot B of Eenhoorn area Amsterdam and three urban villas within the Think K Killesberg development in Stuttgart - celebrate their start construction ceremonies today. Delivery of ...
The team KCAP Architects&Planners and Topotek 1, in cooperation with financial advisors Fakton win the competition for the strategic urban development of the Belval Square Mile quarter in Esch-sur-Alzette, in ...
KCAP in cooperation with local architect Ateliers 115 will deliver the 10.000 m2 sustainable office building ETIK in Boulogne Billancourt (Paris) in March 2011. The design is based on a first prize ...
![Schemes for Airportlands Edmonton [CA] unveiled](/images/s_001116image.jpg)
This week the five teams competiting in the project Airportlands Edmonton present their schemes to the media and the public. The other participants next to KCAP are Sweco of Sweden, Perkins ...
![Start construction of sustainable office building in Sittard [NL]](/images/s_001021image.jpg)
On February 10th construction of the ZO Wonen headquarters in Sittard (Netherlands)has started. The building will combine some of the branch offices of the housing corporation in one central office. ...
Bouwwereld article about Blaak 31
08-02-2011
The current issue of the Dutch architectural construction magazine features an article about Blaak 31 office building. Click here to read the pdf of Bouwwereld or go to the project.
Urban Signature is an online magazine about urban renewal and city trends. Urban Signature reports on innovative projects, enterprising visionaries, and notable trends. For professionals in urban development, architects, designers ...
![KCAP continues work on Block 179 Perm [RU]](/images/s_000627image.jpg)
KCAP continues work on Block 179 Perm [RU]
26-01-2011
Within our existing project for Block 179 (former Asylum site) in Perm, 4 architects were asked to participate in an additional competition for an adjusted program for this block. The ...
![Urban plan for Noorderhaven Zutphen [NL] approved](/images/s_000624image.jpg)
Last week, the Municipality of Zutphen has approved the urban and landscape plan for Noorderhaven Zutphen. The project comprises of a masterplan for 1000-1100 residences and mixed-use functions on a ...
The Red Apple is nominated as one of four projects for the first edition of the Dutch Kleur Buiten Prijs. The award highlights inspiring examples for the conscious application of ...
Markus Appenzeller and Ruurd Gietema have written an article about City Regeneration for the German landscape magazine TOPOS featuring KCAP's masterplans for Perm and San Sebastian.'City regeneration is not about ...
On 30 December 2010 KCAP has entered into the 2nd round of the competition and is selected as one of 5 (out of 14) formally invited consulting groups of International ...
Dutch magazine Property NL published a TOP-25 list of architects according to the amount of built square meters in 2010. KCAP holds rank 13.1. ZZDP Architecten: 48.5000 m²2. Dam en ...
KCAP opens new office in Shanghai
03-01-2011
After significant years of building activity and recent succesful project acquisition in China, KCAP has now a representative office in Shanghai, which is KCAP's third branch office next to Rotterdam and Zurich. Distributed ...
KCAP: 2010 Success abroad
24-12-2010
KCAP was mentioned by Architectenweb as one of the most successful architecture firms which have worked abroad during 2010. In this article are mentioned KCAP's masterplan designs for de Heizel en Belgium, Osnabrück in ...
KCAP Architects&Planners in cooperation with local partner- architects Ateliers 115 win an international competition for the renovation and extension of an office building in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. The team was selected ...
KCAP Zurich finished the competition Ecoquartier Danube in Strasbourg, where also two Parisian offices participated. The draft prepared by KCAP, Metron, Amstein + Walthert and Pfarré Lighting Design is on ...
![KCAP/Arup/Fakton win competition for NEO in Brussels [BE]](/images/s_000247image.jpg)
KCAP Architects&Planners together with the advisors Arup and Fakton win the competition for NEO, the re-urbanisation of a strategic pole in the North of the city of Brussels. The team’s ...
Blaak 31 completed
14-07-2010
KCAP Architects&Planners realises the 23.000 m2 office building Blaak 31 in Rotterdam. The project, commissioned by Dutch developer Provast, will be used mainly by the legal and tax service provider ...
Documentation Perm Strategic Masterplan
25-06-2010
Click here to view the entire Perm Strategic Masterplan documentation.
KCAP Architects&Planners in cooperation with local architect Arlette Schneiders win the competition for an office development in the city of Luxemburg. The competition entry was already awarded first prize in ...
![Perm Strategic Masterplan presented at the Moscow Biennale [RU]](/images/s_000250image.jpg)
KCAP Architects&Planners presents its project, Perm Strategic Masterplan at the Moscow Architecture Biennale. The project has a central role in this year’s thematic framework “Modernizing the City”. The Biennale will ...
![KCAP wins masterplan competition for the Bay of Pasaia San Sebastian [ES]](/images/s_000238image.jpg)
KCAP Architects&Planners has won the prestigious masterplanning competition for the development of a 70 hectares site at the Bay of Pasaia, San Sebastián, Spain. The site is set in an ...
![KCAP and STUDIO UC win urban competition in Osnabruck [DE]](/images/s_000235image.jpg)
KCAP Architect&Planners Rotterdam, in cooperation with Studio UC from Berlin, were unanomously chosen as winner for the urban competition for the development of a new science and dwellingpark on the ...