Complex Housing: De Opgang Amsterdam

As the spatial concept for Switzerland is turning ten years old, it is time to revise this agreement on the shape and future of the country. To this end, Hochparterre is setting up the Agenda Raum Schweiz 2040 that is meant as a collage where experts from different disciplines give their view on designing ...

Irma van Oort, partner and architect at KCAP, explains in a conversation with Vastgoedjournaal the challenges of high-rise. She knows very well that a project is only successful if people can take possession of it. So that is all about creating collectivity and a sense of belonging while paying attention ...

In the last twelve years, Europaallee the station area of Zürich has undergone an urban transformation from an isolated site into a lively city district. KCAP is responsible for the urban design of the redevelopment that is completed.The article published in Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung provides ...

Europaallee, based on KCAP's urban design work, is a new district right next to Zurich's central railway station. All started in 2003 thanks to Swiss railway operator SBB who regularly develops near railway stations, as places being close to the centre to stop urban sprawl thanks to densification. The ...

Irma van Oort, partner, and architect at KCAP, has been published in “Hoogbouw in Nederland 2020”, a publication dedicated to high-rise buildings in the Netherlands 2020, edited by Stichting Hoogbouw, the Dutch High-rise Foundation. More than ever, high-rise buildings are gaining importance. The rising ...

KCAP and Orange Architects are working in a consortium with A.Len Architectural Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia, to transform a former railway yard on Ligovsky Prospekt into a new residential district with communal facilities, retail and extensive greenery. Linear parks and landscaped boulevards that ...

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 ...

A nice collection of books by Kees Christiaanse recently released by NAI010 publishers: 'Textbook spans 30 years of the well-known urban designer and architect Kees Christiaanse’s thinking about cities. The collected texts range from charting the influence of the bicycle on his thinking about future ...

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 ...

"The Noise Landscape“ by Kees Christiaanse, Benedikt Boucsein, Eirini Kasioumi and Christian Salewski, has just been released with nai010 publishers. Through extensive documentation, maps and infographics, the book investigates the noise-affected areas around eight major European airports: Amsterdam, ...

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 ...

The compact city as the solution for urban growth? At best, this can only be part of the solution, say Kees Christiaanse and BPD CEO Walter de Boer. Both believe there should be more consideration for the densely populated areas between cities. And more centralised management. 'If design isn't properly ...

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.

Yesterday, the design of The Spot design was presented. On the spot itself, in Amersfoort. Through VR glasses, visitors could preview the design in 360 degrees, as if the building was already there. A lot of positive responses were given about the design, but also about developer Kees van Loon of Profund ...

KCAP and Profund Vastgoedontwikkeling present next week the design for ‘The Spot’ in Amersfoort; an uitspoken design with 40 luxury apartments and commercial spaces. The Dutch paper AD interviews developer Kees van Loon and KCAP project architect Renske van der Stoep and partner Ruurd Gietema about the ...

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 ...

An urban planner travels a lot! In his essay, published in the current issue of the German TOPOS magazine, Kees Christiaanse takes the reader on a journey through Europe by train. He talks about his observations of the changing mobility-system and what impact this has on urbanisation, infrastructure, ...

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 ...

In the Dutch AD Newspaper, which has a focus on Rotterdam, a large interview with Ruurd Gietema has been published. Forecasts say Rotterdam will experience a 10% growth in the coming 14 years; which means  an increase of 60.000 people. In the article, Ruurd gives his opinion on the opportunities for ...

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 ...

The Dutch architecture monthly launches a new online magazine: De Architect Business. Check out the interview with Irma van Oort about KCAP's experiences with participating as architect at the German real estate fair Expo Real.      

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 ...

Kees Christiaanse interviewed in Vastgoedmarkt about urban planning in Rotterdam. He calls for urban densification of the center, a better distribution of city functions between the center and Kop van Zuid and reconciliation of the city with the harbour by adding residential functions. [[file:vgm1604]]    

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. ...

世界景观建筑杂志24期刊登介绍KCAP与LAY-OUT 和 Atelier Dreiseitl 合作完成的宝安活水城市项目。  

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  

Ruurd Gietema 在采访中谈到海牙Binckhorst 地区近来在上升发展期中出现的转型问题。  

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  

去年三月，KCAP城市规划师Hyeri Park 是 “超越大规划“ 的协办方之一。让我们重新演绎在韩国的规划研讨会。此次国际研讨会和展览吸引了欧洲各方面的专家们，KCAP以各种不同方式参加此次会议：Kees Christiaanse 发表了演讲，Jeroen Dirckx主持了一场研习会，陈亚馨参加了讨论会和作为展览的副负责人。 “超越Seunsangga -16个超越大规划的想法”这本书最近在韩国出版，这本书以2015年研讨会为基础，包括Kees Christiaanse ，Yoo Na Ho, Jeroen Dirckx 和 Hyeri Park所做的贡献。 这本书将于明天推出并且和各作者讨论：Zef ...

View via the link below the documentary about our team OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - KCAP and our design for the VRT broadcast centre in Brussels. Our team was one of the finalists in the internationals design competition. Click here to view the documentary on Canvas.      

最新发布： 12-1月的荷兰建筑月刊采访了Kees Christiaanse。他谈及到他如何应对工作变化以及今后工作领域的改变和抱负。“将城市发展与接近社会融合在一起，创造出和谐。” 点击此处阅读相关文章。（荷兰语）  

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

Kees Christiaanse接受荷兰景观杂志Blauwe Kamer关于瑞士和荷兰建筑发展的采访[[file:blauwekamer1510]]

去年建筑师Kees Christiaanse参与了由巴塞罗那AMB区域组织的第四次关于阿姆斯特丹史基浦机场（Schiphol airport）建设的讲座和研讨会。研讨会的目的是讨论巴塞罗那的城市建设如何纳入欧洲城市系统。会后研讨会的内容发布在6卷书名为Quaderns PDU metropolità的系列丛书上，书中阐述了建筑师Kees Christiaanse关于史基浦机场建筑设计的真知灼见。他提出的真知灼见里有对机场区域建筑设计的全面分析，和对有关如何定义机场区域，如何提高区域开发的问题做了回答。另外，他还提到了9个相当有用的概念，用以开发全球机场区域的建设。AMB区域是巴塞罗那大都市的公共行政管理区域 ...

Scheveningen地区重获青睐。荷兰每日电报今日讲述了五个拜访欧洲西北部最大海域的理由以及从五个角度展望2020。KCAP对Pier北部地区的城市规划在愿景规划中扮演者重要的角色。 点击这里在线查看文章（荷兰语）。

本文报道KCAP建筑师与规划师事务所25周年庆典于2014年12月12日在鹿特丹红苹果公寓进行庆祝活动。 在线阅读（荷兰语）

近日以来，韩国电视A频道制作了4集关于海港城市再开发的纪录片。纪录片采用各种采访和现场考察形式对4座城市进行了全方位展示，阿姆斯特丹就是其中之一。Kees Christiaanse就KCAP负责的项目——阿姆斯特丹Oostelijke Handelskade，接受了专访。 本次访谈出现在4集纪录片中的第3集，现可通过YouTube在线观看。  

在瑞士当今的免费《Migros杂志》上：对Kees旧瑞士城市规划展开访谈。

新书《Die Stadt als Ressource》对Kees Christiaanse教授在苏黎世联邦理工学院的教学进行了深入探讨，并为可持续性城市规划提供了新思路。 新书发布会期间，还将同步举办与Kees Christiaanse、Florian Dreher (Free publicist)、Angelus Eisinger (RZU)、Nicolas Kretschmann (BASK Architektur Städtebau/University of Munich)、Tim Rieniets (StadtBauKultur NRW)开展的讨论会。地点：苏黎世Gasometerstrasse ...

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。

Kees Christiaanse在接受世界高层建筑与都市人居学会(CTBUH)期刊专访中就主题“克服高层建筑的自闭倾向”进行了探讨。 [[file:ctbuh]]

KCAP于12月12日在鹿特丹红苹果公寓举行了KCAP25周年庆典。三位嘉宾在庆典开幕之际发表了演讲，其中Kees Christiaanse对KCAP25年的发展历程和建筑师们的贡献给予了精彩讲述。《De Architect》在最新的二月刊中发表了Kees的演讲。

今天，De Architect对KCAP25周年庆进行了报道。

荷兰月刊《Stedebouw . Architectuur》12月底，发表了Kees Christiaanse关于更新和改造的专访：“滨水区的特有品质”。 点击这里 ，阅读文章（荷兰语）

KEES CHRISTIAANSE:“建筑学是将项目转换为材料的形式。”点击这里查看访谈内容。

瑞士日刊，新苏黎世报(NZZ)副刊《FOLIO》杂志01/12版对瑞士城市群的开发趋势和这些开发项目的品质进行了分析。基斯·克里斯蒂安是受访专家之一。 点击这里，查看在线文章（德语版）。