Pioneering in sustainable urban design

We are proud that KCAP has been involved in the research to redefine the reference framework for housing in France, sharing our expertise in that sector to improve the overall residential quality. The French government has announced to aim for a new housing quality reference system. This redefinition ...

The new residential neighborhood by Arkitema Architects within KCAP’s masterplan of Kanalbyen (formerly FredericiaC), is approved. It comprises of 450 homes with a total size of around 38.000 m2, developed by AP Pension.  The development, which has been named Caroline Lunden, reveals a mix of types ...

We are looking forward to being on board of the Clipper Stad Amsterdam in Hamburg on October 11th with Space&Matter, Amsterdam Trade & Innovate and the Netherlands Business Support Office Hamburg for this day program about Integrated Waterfront Transformation. How do you transform a former port area ...

The Grand Projet was launched today in Singapore. The 600-pages-book is a collection of four years comparative research by the Future Cities Laboratory on the making and impact of urban megaprojects in Asia and Europe. It features Marunouchi Tokyo, Lujiazui Shanghai, West Kowloon Hong Kong, Marina Bay ...

On June 27, Kees Christiaanse will speak about his "Textbook", published with nai010 Publishers last year. The Textbook covers 30 years of his thinking about cities. It is a collection of 21 texts that has been carefully selected and redacted in collaboration with Jessica Bridger.The subjects of the ...

As urban planner, KCAP is facing the challenges of ecology and constantly strives to develop futureproof and resilient cities for future generations. With our broad multidisciplinary approach to complex design issues, we ensure that sustainability and resilience strategies are incorporated and addressed ...

The City of Hamburg has earned a "Special Mention" by the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2018. The biannual international award honours outstanding achievements and contributions to the creation of liveable, vibrant and sustainable urban communities around the world. Our own HafenCity project is one of ...

KCAP's De Opgang, comprising of a program of 79 apartments, a church and daycare facilities, is one of eight projects selected for publication 'Complex Housing' (Routledge, USA), which introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European ...

Against the background of the exhibition "Train and the City", KCAP and OMI organize a special event around Rotterdam Central District on Tuesday 5 September. You are cordially invited to participate in the event. Rotterdam Central District, the station area of Rotterdam, is developing fast. What are ...

Kees Christiaanse is one of the keynote speakers at the annual real estate symposium in Baden, Switzerland on March 28th. With the title "Die Stadt erfindet sich neu - Immobilien Quo vadis?", the Swiss Real Estate Association SVIT has invited national and international experts to look out to future visions ...

Ute Schneider is one of the international jury members of Europan 14 Austria. On March 22nd, the competition will be officially launched with an opening event at the Haus der Architektur in Graz with Ute Schneider as keynote speaker. Europan is the world´s largest competition for architects, urbanists ...

On Thursday, February 16th, Ruurd Gietema will give a lecture about KCAP's experiences with working in China at TU Delft. The lecture is meant as preparation for the STYLOS travel to China but it is open to everyone. Time: 12:45 am - 1:45 pm Location: Room A Click here for further information.

Kees Christiaanse will be one of the speakers at the symposium 'Schiphol towards the future', organised by the podium for architecture in Haarlemmermeer and Schiphol. During the event, the book 'The adaptive airport' will be presented to which he contributed with an essay named 'the productive landscapes ...

At the Building Green conference in Copenhagen on November 2nd and 3rd, Jeroen Dirckx, urban planner and associate at KCAP, will introduce KCAP's approach to sustainable urban design and present three international cases as keynote speaker. Since its founding in 1989, KCAP is focussing on realising ...

KCAP has extensive experiences with working in Russia in all phases of architectural and urban projects. This expertise has gained us an invitation share our expert knowlegde from an international perspective on the first edition of the international forum 'Environment for Living', held October 20th ...

The Urban and Landscape Week is the biggest annual academic symposium hosted by TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences and is organized by study association POLIS. ULWeek provides a platform for collaborative and multidisciplinary engagement by inviting students, researchers ...

Today, KCAP participated in the annual interregional science and research conference “Modern Engineering System-2016" (MES-2016), taking place in Kazan, Russia. Riikka Tuomisto, senior project leader and urban designer of KCAP, gave a lecture “Better prevent than cure”, speaking on how to transform ...

九月中旬，KCAP参与了由荷兰驻上海领事馆主办的‘中荷宁波海绵城市交流会’，借鉴KCAP国内外滨水规划的项目经验: 如德国汉堡港口城、深圳宝安活水城市更新、上海张江科技城等，并分享了全局生态策略的理念与实践。 宁波是中国东部一个快速增长的大型港口城市，该地政策的愿景是希望到了2020年将其25％的面积改造成海绵城市。随着城市规模的扩大和气候变化带来更多极端天气的威胁，建造海绵城市的策略或许能为可续发展提供一个有效的解决方案。所谓的城市环境重新构建，是透过收集几乎每一滴的雨水，合理分配和重复使用。海绵城市的原理也就是尽量地将雨水保留在自己的边界范围内使用，而非采用以往的排水模式疏导雨水。 KCAP作为 ...

The creation of human living environments and intelligent breeding grounds for sustainable communities is key to KCAP's work. At the Sochi Investment Forum, Ruurd Gietema will present this expertise as one of the panelists in the session 'Modern Approaches to the Human Environment'. In addition, KCAP’s ...

Kees Christiaanse is one of the speakers at the annual conference of Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) that takes place from September 14-16 in Singapore.Future Cities / Challenges is the first annual conference of Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in its second phase. It will showcase the progress FCL researchers ...

Last month, Kees Christiaanse was one of the speakers at the annual Urban Age conference in Venice, jointly organised by LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and integrated with the Venice Biennale. Click here to view his ...

亚馨在由荷兰驻中国领使馆、珠海市住房和城乡规划建设局协办的《中荷海绵城市研讨会》活动中演讲。连续2天的研讨会于6月20日举行，并邀请了KCAP与其他4家荷兰公司—凯迪思(ARCADIS)，三角洲研究院(Deltares)、高柏伙伴(KuiperCompagnon)和大都会建筑事务所(OMA），一起分享有关水管理和城市发展的经验和远景。亚馨以德国港口城和深圳宝安活水城这两个案例展示了我们对于新水城规划设计所使用的方式。    

Kees Christiaanse is one of the speakers at the annual Urban Age conference, jointly organised by LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft. It will be integrated with the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale ...

Tomorrow starts the first International Course Rotterdam Architecture (IC-RA): City force: Rotterdam architecture.  This 3-day summer school for (young) professionals examines various Rotterdam city themes, forces and architecture in workshops, lectures, office & project visits and debates with experts ...

Ruurd Gietema is speaker at the first of the 3 days of BAU congress in Bejing. During the congress, Chinese and international speakers will discuss the outlook for the future of the Chinese market. Ruurd's lecture will be on July 4th which has as focus "Urban strategies”, while on the second day the ...

On June 23rd, Kees Christiaanse is one of the keynote speakers at the 3-day 'Central Europe towards Sustainable Building' conference 2016 in Prague, subtitled with Innovations for Sustainable Future. CESB16 continues the tradition of sustainable building conferences in Central Europe of the previous ...

On May 17th, Rotterdam will host the third edition of the annual international Urban Transformation Conference (UTC). The program consists of six sub themes under the central theme Vital Cities. UTC targets city planners, architects, planners and administrators, politicians but also artists, active citizens, ...

KCAP co-organised yesterday the first HPP Café, together with Holland Property Plaza. HPP Café is a new format within the various activities of HPP. As new networking initiative it brings together the professionals and decision makers of today with young potentials, the decision makers of the future. ...

Ruurd Gietema 是在布拉格召开的欧洲生态会议“ 城市环境和恢复力”专题讨论组成员之一。作为今秋即将在厄瓜多尔Quito召开的联合国住房和城市可持续发展-生态III会议的前期活动之一，会议始于3月16日，为期3天。布拉格会议由捷克共和国区域发展部和布拉格市联合主办。其它区域专题会议将于本月在墨西哥Toluca ，巴塞罗那，墨西哥城，比勒陀利亚和尼日利亚阿布贾举行。 点击此处了解更多关于布拉格欧洲生态会议的资讯 点击此

Kees Christiaanse是“未来医疗保健”研讨会的演讲嘉宾之一。该研讨会为国际社会的健康设施建设提供关于政治，医疗，生态，经济以及建筑学观点，每两年在柏林举办一次。2016年研讨会是第六次举办。参加会议的有建筑学家， 医疗设施和健康专家以及政治家们。此次跨学科研讨会由受邀的多位国际专家们分析并提出了目前的发展趋势，创新理念和最新成果。 点击此处了解更多关于研讨会的内容  

今天，Kees Christiaanse 在香港大学春季系列讲座会上发表关于“ 大型项目对城市的影响”的演讲。“今天，城市平衡似乎广泛由大项目引导，例如九龙车站，上海陆家嘴，伦敦国王十字车站或者汉堡港口城。还有大事件的影响，例如奥运会对当地城市环境产生了深远的影响。这意味着城市设计该扮演什么样的角色？“ 点击此处获得更多信息  

第一运河和FredericiaC新形成的公共空间正在施工中。运河是KCAP对以前棕色地带转型城市规划设计的重要因素，此棕色地带将转型成一个崭新的、融合了重要的水体元素的城市区，形成一个有吸引力的海运环境。 在YouTube上有两段令人印象深刻的延时拍摄短片，呈现运河和第一大桥的施工情况   点击此处观看延时拍摄短片1 此处观看延时拍摄短片2

新一轮-无国界城市规划会议的主题是学习国际经验，荷兰创新工业基金组织的各种专家就以下话题进行讨论： ——国际设计项目和研究是如何有助于解决大型城市面临的问题 ——荷兰设计团体能从国际项目经验中学到什么 三个不同专题的分会主题是：生活环境，水景和国际合作领域。Ruurd Gietema将分享KCAP在生活环境方面的经验. 点击此处，获取更多信息

3月25日，KCAP应邀在重庆荷兰领事馆举办了一场设计沙龙。本次活动的目的旨在通过与本地利益攸关方、开发商和重庆大学的相关代表进行一场面对面的对话交流，分享KCAP的城市规划经验，探讨重庆城市发展的未来愿景。本次活动为首届设计沙龙活动，随后还将举办后续活动。下一届设计沙龙将于夏季举行。

FredericiaC于上月签订了开发运河区协议后，引发了人们在此购房或租房的热潮。目前已有180人登记。该区域包含40套社会住房、16套公寓和600平方米办公区。

FredericiaC已与Futura Fredericia住宅协会和一位私人投资者签署了协议，旨在建造KCAP的FredericiaC城市规划方案中的56座公寓和600m2办公区，该项目位于的第一运河附近。 点击这里，查看官方新闻发布信息（丹麦语）。

KCAP有两个项目被录入了2014年度的景观建设和城市设计年鉴中，这是非常值得自豪的一项荣耀。这两个项目分别是FredericiaC –创新型城市，以及法国 的Montpellier-站群区域。

GWL地区阿姆斯特丹市是在2014年五月在莫斯科双年展上的15个近乎完美的城市街区展之一。这些现在还展示在代尔夫特理工大学，一直到12月的12日结束。 Click here for more information.

KCAP是在'Discover Benelux'杂志上的一系列建筑公司中的一个，这是一种专供商业成员联盟的会员查阅的刊物。其中包含英国航空公司,瑞士航空公司和航空公司和法国航空公司贵宾室。Click here for the online version. (KCAP on p. 36)

KCAP参与了由韩国建筑院 (KIA) 组织并在Gwangju展出的“2014年100建筑设计”。展览作为第33KIA会议&展览的一部分，在韩国建筑师和设计师圈中已经成为最具声望的展览之一。此次展览将在11月5-9号之间举办。点击这里查看更多信息。

昨日，FredericiaC城市发展项目的第一运河正式开挖典礼圆满举办完成。21公顷的前水发展项目正式宣布开工。KCAP和Ramboll 以及Fakton负责项目的整体规划。

在8月份，21公顷的海滨改建项目FredericiaC即将开建，将对第一运河进行挖掘并宣布因此项目开发第一期正式启动。KCAP完成了项目的整体规划工作，基于它和Ramboll 及Fakton公司合作在2011年大赛中获得了一等奖。 点击这里查看官方新闻发布（丹麦语）

Strelka学院的学生针对媒体，建筑学和设计方面容采访了Kees Christiaanse有关城市化进程的未来的话题。 点击这里阅读采访。

港口城汉堡作为九个全球最佳项目之一收到了TOD标准金奖。KCAP的城市规划项目GWL绿色概念住宅区规划及建筑阿姆斯特丹获得TOD标准银奖。昨日交通与发展策略院（ITDP）发布了全球六大洲的50个城市发展项目目录。 TOD (交通导向发展) 作为一个标准，公认的以及指导政策工具独特的专注于整合可持续交通和土地使用规划以及设计。它展示了项目和人群之间的连接的便捷性，舒适的以及安全的工作，购物，教育和其他城市可提供的机会。评估结果是基于更好的街道以及更好的城市的八大政策 —— 步行，自行车，交通，连接区，整合区，密集度，密集区，以及轮班工作—将创造充满活力的，低碳城市供人们去生活和工作。 城市发展项目金奖是全球交通整合和城市设计的领导奖项 ...

城市土地协会（UlI)已经完成了第35届ULI全球卓越大奖赛的胜出者的筛选，此大赛被广泛的认为是土地行业久负盛名的鉴定大赛。项目颁奖仪式在UIL芝加哥秋季会议举办。 汉堡港口新城是十二名获奖项目之一。

Realdania 受邀发行了新片：发掘第一阶段的生命如何在FredericiaC新区得以生存 在youtube观看电影.

Ruurd Gietema将于STUK Leuven在由 Stad en Architectuur主办的系列讲座中发表演讲。该系列讲座的主题是面对人口变动及社会经济基础设施匮乏、人口无家可归地区的快速变化和扩大，建筑师和建筑体系应如何应对。 点击这里，查看更多信息或注册。

 KCAP/ASTOC联手打造的港口城（HafenCity）总体规划获Veronica Rudge Green城市规划奖提名，另有其它9项总体规划方案获此提名。该奖项组织方为美国坎布里奇市哈佛大学设计学院。 Veronica Rudge 绿色城市规划奖设立于1986年，是该领域最具声望的奖项，旨在奖励优秀的城市规划方案。该奖项每两年评选一次，重点关注某个项目对城市公共领域的贡献度及改善城市生活质量的作用。   评委会将于2013年3月公布获奖名单。

今天，新书《汉堡新港口城前十年》于汉堡正式发布。 

KCAP的丹麦腓特烈西亚总体规划获得了2012滨水设计“规划”类荣誉奖。该年度奖项由美国滨水设计中心成立于1987年，旨在奖励国际滨水开发项目。奖项评判标准为项目对于水的设计的敏感度、设计质量和融洽性、公众投入的影响、环境以及改进和困难情况等。在共计10个获奖项目中，包括8个建筑项目和2个规划项目。颁奖仪式将于在美国华盛顿举行的滨水设计中心第30届国际会议期间进行。

城市重建WAN AWARDS 奖旨在奖励并宣传在国际城市设计、景观和基础设施项目中表现最为卓越的项目。在未建造项目名单中，KCAP的腓特烈西亚总体规划被列入20个初选项目中。最终候选名单将于10月16日揭晓。点击这里，查看入围详情。

8月底，FredericiaC开发规划方案发布。该规划展示了FredericiaC方案未来20-25年的开发模式，将为腓特烈西亚市及周边地区带来根本性的、积极的和巨大的变化。 开发规划的制定以KCAP 2010年的竞赛获胜设计方案为基础。 点击这里，观看开发规划视频。  

波兰公共电视台将播出滨水开发项目纪录片。本片的焦点是波兰的格丁尼亚市，并将与汉堡和鹿特丹进行对比。在本片中，将有多位专家接受访谈，其中包括KCAP城市规划师Frank Werner与Jeroen Dirckx。点击观看预告片。