The overwhelming challenge of our time is to build cities that protect the earth’s resources and habitats through sustainable and climate adaptive planning. KCAP takes on this challenge and has developed a holistic and futureproof design approach that combines flood protection with broad urban agendas. Exhibition In the exhibition ‘Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture of the 21st Century’, two of our flood resilient plans are on display. The exhibition showcases work of architects that are leading the way in making our built environment better equipped to adapt to the growing climate reality of urban flooding. HafenCity, Hamburg Since HafenCity is located in the flood zone of the Elbe, there was a need for the development of an innovative concept for the integration of sustainable and climate adaptive planning. The urban plan, developed in cooperation with ASTOC, integrated concepts for flood prevention in a right from the start. The multidisciplinary approach translates intelligent interventions and technological solution into a comprehensive holistic plan. East Dike, Shenzhen KCAP + FELIXX developed a triple dike strategy to restore the coastline and raise protection standards against the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events. This multifaceted dike system allows for an integrated approach towards the climate adaptive reorganization of the shore. The adaptive design offers a framework for the entire coastline area to evolve into a multifunctional zone with potential for social and economic growth. Next to our projects HafenCity Hamburg and East Dike Shenzhen, more architects' work on the topic of flood resilient architecture will be exhibited. The exhibition will be on show from February 1st until May 16th at Roca London Gallery.

Mobility and residential living are the main challenges facing the Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan region. LIVING THE REGION – RHINE-MAIN interrelates mobility and residential living. After all, the region lives of its localities being easy to reach, and the wide range of housing available. It is defined by the way places are linked with one another. The region is highly dynamic and differs fundamentally from the ideal of an idyllic landscape. The exhibition LIVING THE REGION - RHINE-MAIN creates future images of the region. Future images of a region that accepts its challenges, exploits its opportunities, uses new technologies and takes on an integrated development approach with exemplary projects in Germany and abroad as role models. KCAP was invited to create one of five scenarios to showcase possible perspectives for the future of the region. With the proposal MainBand and AirportCity, KCAP re-reads the Main region and unfolds the hidden potentials.  The exhibition can be seen until October 14th, 2018 at DAM (Deutsches Architekturmuseum) in Frankfurt.

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 the recent developments and opportunities of the area? What can we learn from the development of station areas in other European cities? What are the essential elements of ‘making’ a city? And how does the district become a driving force for the further development of Rotterdam? These and other questions will be discussed with Kees van Oorschot, Wijnand Galema and Kees Christiaanse. Patrick van der Klooster, director of AIR architecture center Rotterdam, will moderate the evening. During the program, the following topics will be discussed: • Recent developments of Rotterdam Central DistrictKees van Oorschot, process manager municipality Rotterdam for Rotterdam Central District• Cultural-historical research SchiekadeblokWijnand Galema, architectural historian• Rotterdam Central District as a driving forceKees Christiaanse, urban planner and partner KCAP Architects&Planners The entrance is opens at 4:30 pm at OMI Rotterdam, Schiekade 205. The program will last from 5.00 until 6.30 pm. We close the event with a drink. We look forward to welcoming you on September 5th. Please register for the event before Friday September 1st.      

A special event alongside the exhibition «Train and the City» with Ute Schneider, Elma van Boxel (ZUS), Bert Dirrix (Spoorbouwmeester, Diederendirrix architectuur & stedenbouw) and Mark Pimlott (TU Delft), moderator Chris Luth. Stations areas are being developed into urban hubs where both traffic flows and city functions converge. With Zürich as a starting point the guests will explore different themes in a short presentation. Afterwards the correlation between station and city development will be discussed and projected on the development of Rotterdam Central District, the station area of Rotterdam. date: Thursday, June 29th, 8 pm - 10 pm location: OMI, Schiekade 205, Rotterdam tickets: via OMI  

During the Rotterdam Architecture Month in June 2017, KCAP Architects&Planners and OMI present «Train and the City», a travelling exhibition of KCAP’s station related projects. With OMI being located in the heart of Rotterdam’s station area, the exhibition places Rotterdam in an European perspective. The exhibition takes the visitor on a journey along cities such as Brussels, Zurich, Amsterdam and London. A series of events organised in relation to the show support this approach even more. OMI is the first travel location after the exhibition has been shown at Architekturforum Zurich. The future of the European citySince the industrial revolution and the birth of railway transport, cities have developed rapidly around their stations and continue to do so. Today, the arrival of high speed trains, improving multimodality and new technologies, brings us to imagine and create new visions for train stations and their surroundings. Based on this current topic, KCAP has initiated «Train and the City»; an exhibition that invites you to explore a selection of KCAP’s oeuvre that deals with different aspects of station areas as a driving force for the development of European cities. Beyond the need to build dense and walkable cities around hubs, through its work KCAP considers the impact of new stations on the city, how they mutually develop and how shrinking railway infrastructure offers opportunities for urban development. Themes & projectsThe exhibition shows a large variety of projects that give an insight in the complexity of designing cities and the role of stations within city development. A catalogue of KCAP’s station related projects is combined with a presentation of seven themes such as the polycentric city and infrastructure as urban space. These themes are relevant for KCAP’s approach to urban design and for the diverse cultural and political context of our work. A comparative research ...

Since the birth of railway transport, cities have developed rapidly around their stations and continue to do so. Today, the arrival of high speed trains and the improvement of transportation, brings us to imagine and create new visions for train stations and their surroundings. «Train and the City» invites you to explore a selection of KCAP's oeuvre that deals with station areas as a driving force for the development of European cities. The exhibition will be on show from June 1st until July 15th at OMI, Schiekade 205, Rotterdam. It is part of the Rotterdam Architecture Month 2017.

The content of KCAP's exhibition «Train and the City» is subject of a podium discussion that will be organised February 3rd at at Architekturforum Zurich. Together with the experts, the connections and opportunities of station development, infrastructure planning and urban development will be discussed. Questions and statements they will reflect on are: 'Design for flexibility', 'The station: engine or parasite', 'Push and pull effect between infrastructure planning and city planning' and 'discrepancy between political responsibility and urban development'. The experts are: Carl Fingerhuth (moderator), urban planning expert  Andreas Steiger, SBB Immobilien Ariane Widmer, SDOL Ute Schneider and Anouk Kuitenbrouwer, KCAP    Click here for further program information.

As from tomorrow, KCAP Architects&Planners presents a selection of its station projects in the exhibition «Train and the City» at Architekturforum Zurich, Switzerland. Since the industrial revolution and the birth of railway transport, cities have developed rapidly around their stations and continue to do so. Today, the arrival of high speed trains, the improvement of transportation and new technologies, brings us to imagine and create new visions for train stations and their surroundings. «Train and the City» invites you to explore a selection of KCAP’s oeuvre that deals with different aspects of station areas as a driving force for the development of European cities. The starting point for this focus is an article by Kees Christiaanse, called «Europe by Rail» (2013) in which he describes stations in their historical urban context on a train trip from Zurich to Amsterdam. Beyond the need to build dense and walkable cities around hubs, through its work KCAP considers the impact of new stations on the city, how they mutually develop and how shrinking railway infrastructure offers opportunities for urban development. In the exhibition, a catalogue of KCAP’s station related projects is combined with a presentation of seven themes and their exemplary projects. These themes are relevant for KCAP’s approach to urban design and for the diverse cultural and political context of our work. A comparative research on the relation between train infrastructure and city growth carried out by students from the University of Liechtenstein offers an additional historical perspective to the exhibition. The exhibition will be opened tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14th at 7 pm and can be visited until February 11th 2017.   «Train and the City» Carte Blanche XIV - KCAP Architects&Planners ARCHITEKTURFORUM ZURICH, Brauerstrasse 16, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland 15.12.2016 – 11.02.2017 www.af-z.ch    

Imagine a journey from Zurich to Amsterdam by train, with an intermezzo in a foreign city, pausing… stretching your legs, gazing around the station and then hopping onto another train to continue the adventure. Since the industrial revolution and the birth of railway transport, cities have developed rapidly around their stations and continue to do so. Today, the arrival of high speed trains, improving multimodality and new technologies, brings us to imagine and create new visions for train stations and their surroundings. The exhibition invites you to explore a selection of KCAP’s oeuvre that deals with different aspects of mobility as a driving force of urban development. From a station to larger areas, the projects reflect upon the meaning and importance of infrastructure for cities. A comparative research on the relation between train infrastructure and historical city growth by students from the University of Liechtenstein enriches the «Train and the City». «Train and the City» Carte Blanche XIV - KCAP Architects&Planners  ARCHITEKTURFORUM ZÜRICH, Brauerstrasse 16, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland 15.12.2016 – 11.02.2017 

A light installation as positive sign for EUROPE. "For a long time the European project was considered an obvious development that generated benefits for all parties concerned. The succession of serious crisis that move the continent for a decade, endangers this project for the first time seriously. The Brexit could weaken the entire alliance sustainably. The current situation is so loaded with problems that a positive sign appears necessary. Europe lacks visibility, public presence and positive feedback. The continuity and stability of the European idea are existentially, especially during this difficult period of time," states the organisor Moreplatz. This is the background for the light installation on the facade of St. Agnes in Berlin Kreuzberg, which opposes the lack of visibility and presence with a statement for Europe in the public space. Moreplatz invited to contribute to let the letters EUROPA shine in 33 fluorescent tubes on the eastern facade of the church up November 26th. KCAP joined with great pleasure. The 33 tubes are sponsored by: Marc Feustel, Nicola Borgmann, Architekturgalerie München, Peter Scheller, Palais Mai, Kerria Wittenberg, Martin Schnitzer, Rabes + Möntmann, Ernst Baumann, Matthias Werner, Matthias Castorph / Goetz Castorph, Judith Schele Weise, Ruben Dario Kleimeer, Rene Rissland, Allard van der Hoek + Marit Vos, MVRDV, KCAP Architects&Planners, Wilhelm Koch www.europa-tempel.de, Antony Gross / Gapp Architekten, Frank Thiele / Factor Product, Angelika Maria Fink / Pathos Theater, Andrea Kyre, Sebastian Hennig + Daniel Zakharov, Urs Primas, Jens Studer, Franziska Schneider / SSP, Brigitte Russ-Scherer, Martine Vledder, Gabriel Lester / Polylester, John Bosch / OZarchitect, Hanna Wolff, Klaus Neumann / Realgrün, Chris Hohenester & Alessandro Cioffi, Regine Geibel, Georg Götze / Götze Hadlich Architekten  Prior to the installation in Berlin, a projection of the installation was launched as preview in Munich. 

For the third time, KCAP has been invited to join the '100 architects of the year' exhibition, taking place this year in Ulsan, Korea. The exhibition is part of the traditional Korean national architectural festival and invites architects from all over the world to showcase their projects. This particular edition also serves to promote the 2017 UIA Seoul World Architects Congress. The exhibition opened today and is on stage until October 18th at the ULSAN CULTURE ART CENTER. It is organised by the Korean Institute of Architects (KIA) and SPACE magazine. The exhibition series was introduced in 2012 and held previously in Seoul, Daejon, Gwangju and Shanghai.  

Новый городской район Killesberghöhe в Штутгарте приглашает всех на свою летнюю вечеринку в воскресенье 17-го июля. В программу также входит архитектурный тур и выставка под открытым небом от четырех вовлеченных архитектурных компаний: be Baumschlager Eberle David Chipperfield Architects KCAP Architects&Planners Ortner + Ortner Baukunst Не пропустите!

Tomorrow opens the exhibition with all 5 competition entries for the VRT broadcast centre in Brussels, including the design of team OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - KCAP. The exhibition will run through February 29th. Location: Atelier Bouwmeester Brussel.  

For the second time, KCAP joins the '100 architects of the year' exhibition in Korea. In the framework of the World architects congress -UIA Seoul 2017, the Korean Institute of Architects (KIA) is organising this international architecture exhibition in Seoul for which architects from around the world are invited to submit their realisations. This year, KCAP will be present with the project Noordelijk Havenhoofd Scheveningen.The exhibition will start October 21st and runs through November 21st.  

From October 17th to 25th, the annual Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven takes place. Within the larger exhibition framework, Deerns, who is also located in Eindhoven, organizes an exhibition with the title ‘Nooit Gebouwd’. This exhibition showcases ambitious Dutch projects that have never been built – for whatever reasons. KCAP will be present with the apartment building 'Fountainhead' on Borneo Sporenburg Amsterdam and the first market conform energy neutral office towers 'Palmtorens' in Nieuwegein. Both were very ambitious projects but unfortunately, not built.Other participating offices include Mecanoo, Benthem Crouwel, OeverZaaijer and Paul de Ruiter. The exhibition can be visited daily from 11.00 - 18.00 at Deerns in Eindhoven (Klokgebouw 125).  

Tomorrow at Borneo Architectuur Centrum Amsterdam: opening of the exhibition about unbuilt plans at IJ-Oevers Amsterdam. KCAP's design for the Fountainhead is one of the showcased projects. The exhibition is part of the Day of Architecture program in Amsterdam, June 20/21 and can be seen at BAC until August 13. Click here for more information.

Недавно победивший в конкурсе совместный проект KCAP и B&V Braun Canton для Frankfurt Riedberg, TOPOTEK 1 и Deutsche Wohnwerte представлен в  настоящее время на выставке в департаменте городского планирования во Франкфурте, которая будет открыта до 13 февраля.   Ссылка на информацию.  

В Мастрихте, Bureau Europa представляет третью выставку работ архитектора Седрика Прайса (Cedric Price), при этом нескольких его проектов, выбранных для Нидерландов, демонстрируются публике впервые. Частью программы выставки 'CEDRIC PRICE: “Динамика времени” является серия интервью с нынешними архитекторами о работе Седрика Прайса. Кейс Кристиансе также принял участие в этой серии. Ссылка на интервью. Выставка открыта до 22 марта 2015 at NAiM / Bureau Europa (в Институте Архитектуры Мастрихта) / Bureau Europa, Timmerfabriek, Boschstraat 9, Maastricht. Ссылка на информацию.            

Выставка в швейцарском музее архитектуры S AM “Сооружая текст” освещает различные проекты, исследуя различные способы описания и обсуждения архитектуры. Одним из выбранных примеров стал разработанный КСАР мастер-план Europaallee  (“Аллея Европы”) в Цюрихе.   Выставка открыта до 22 февраля.  Адрес: Steinenberg 7, CH-4051 Базель Ссылка на информацию.