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Dark is one of Norways's largest planning, architecture and interior design practices, consistently delivering creative solutions with a high degree of functionality. Their work includes master pla...

It begins with curiosity

By Hans Ibelings, Henning Larsen, Tomas Lauri

Since its founding 60 years ago, Henning Larsen Architects has worked from a simple foundational ethos: people come first. A deep curiosity for the world has guided the Danish studio to adapt their...

Tham Videgard Arkitekter

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Rob Parry

By Hans Ibelings

This is the first monograph on the Dutch interior architect and industrial designer Rob Parry (b. 1925). His best-known design is the red and grey postbox, which he developed together with Emile Tr...

China s turn

By Hans Ibelings

If past centuries belonged to Europe and much of the last century has been dominated by America, then now it is China's turn. For decades, the nation has experienced unprecedented economic growth,...

Rise and sprawl

By Hans Ibelings

"This is the story of the rise and sprawl of the condo tower in Toronto. The sheer number of new towers, their size, mass, volume, and height, let alone the speed by which they are being built, is...

Make it anew

By Hans Ibelings

Architecture builds upon history. Even the avant-gardist creed to 'make it new' still assumes a past. It is impossible to imagine novelty without an awareness of what existed before. This is even m...

Adrian Phiffer Strange Primitivism

By Hans Ibelings

Courthouse Zwolle

By Hans Ibelings

For both Jo Kruger (1914-1983) and Rob Hootsmans (1962) the architecture of the Courthouse in Zwolle had been a long time in the making. Kruger started in 1963 with his project for a combined distr...

VMX Architects 3Up2Down. 50 Housing Units for Starters and the Handicapped in Den Bosch

By Hans Ibelings