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24 May 2022

De Karel Doorman, Rotterdam: An Ultra-Lightweight Vertical Extension Using Steel Beams & Stud Walls

This project adds 16 residential floors on top of an existing 1951 department store. The system is a combination of steel columns and beams, metal...

23 May 2022

Well House, Amsterdam: Steel Beams & CLT Floors

To maintain to a floor-to-ceiling height of 2.9 meters that was adaptable to future demands for heating/cooling or smart grids, steel beams and CLT floors...

28 March 2018

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: Naturalizing the Vertical Realm

Thursday, February 1, 2018. Chicago, United States of America. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) held...

30 October 2017

Water Management in Vertical Cities, With the Goal of Reduced Water Footprint

As urbanization is accelerating and cities are becoming denser, the availability of clean water is increasingly becoming an issue. Moreover, the quantity of waste water...

18 October 2016

What’s Next?: How Do We Make Vertical Urban Design?

It seems sometimes as if the further away from the ground we rise, the more architectonic and less urban our buildings become. Skyscrapers have always...

27 October 2015

Social Infrastructure

With the rise of technological solutions, the practice of architecture is often divorced from the cultural, social, and environmental contexts where we build. Buildings have...

26 October 2015

Challenges and Benefits of Integrating Public Space into Tall Buildings

The integration of publicly accessible amenities into tall buildings is a desirable approach to expand the use of a given building to ever-broader segments of...

06 November 2014

Best Tall Building Europe: Three Become One: Formal Interpretations: De Rotterdam

De Rotterdam is conceived as a vertical city: three interconnected mixed-use towers accommodating offices, apartments, a hotel, conference facilities, shops, restaurants, and cafes. The towers...

06 November 2014

Interview: De Rotterdam

Jos Melchers, MAB Development, and Ellen van Loon, OMA, are interviewed by Chris Bentley regarding the Best Tall Building Europe Winner, De Rotterdam, during the...

06 November 2014

Monthly Video: De Rotterdam

Thursday 6th November 2014. Chicago, IL. Jos Melchers, MAB Development, and Ellen van Loon, OMA, are interviewed by Chris Bentley regarding the Best Tall Building...