by WoonWerk JW | 2 Feb 2006
How to represent the collective image of a new Chinese architectural avant-garde? There currently exists a group of architects trying to react on the architectural climate. Are these architects really acting as a group? Or are they individually striving to offer...
by WoonWerk JW | 28 Sep 2005
At street level, there is a pharmacy. The sliding doors open, you walk through a long room with walls made of glass. In front of the glass walls the items are displayed, behind them a void, the pharmacist preparing a recipe, there is a view to the garden. On level -1...
by WoonWerk JW | 3 Mar 2004
The monumental building of the Rotterdam printer Wyt was designed in 1923 by the architect W. Kromhout. After seventy-five years of loyal service, the building became vacant. In 2003, the Rotterdam Historical Buildings Foundation commissioned the characteristic brick...
by WoonWerk JW | 4 Jan 2004
Artist Ai Weiwei asked 17 architects to design a pavilion for the Jinhua Architecture Park along the Yiwu river. Restaurant 13 is build from steel, stone & bamboo as an interpretation of the Chinese dining culture. Three different speeds of...
by WoonWerk JW | 3 Nov 2003
On the edge of the University site De Uithof in Utrecht is a monumental thatched farmhouse and a wooden stable. Between these two rustic buildings, a brightly colored nursery is housed in a wooden building with a surprising roof shape. It was decided to place this new...