This Minimal Addition Looks Magical in the Belgian Forest A little extra square footage comes in the form of a glassed-in addition with a stellar view.
A Soaring Schoolhouse in the Netherlands is Reborn Take a lesson from this school-turned-home.
This Factory Switches Out Cattle-Fodder for Furniture A family brings out the best in a neglected space to build their home in Belgium.
A Creative Dreamworld Complete With Neon Rooms and a Tropical Garden An artist and an architect build their home, studios, and an exhibition space inside an Antwerp warehouse.
A Modern Take on the Pitched-Roof A family’s house outside the hustle of Amsterdam makes the most of local materials and forms.
A Dutch Duo Crafts Contemporary, Efficient Office Furniture Dutch designers Makkink & Bey prove that flexible furnishings can increase efficiency in the modern workplace.
A Concrete Home in Rural Belgium Smitten from the start with a 1970s concrete villa in rural Belgium, a resident and her designer embark on a sensitive renovation...
A Modern Glass Addition in Belgium For this tiny house in the Belgian forest, a little extra square footage comes in the form of a glassed-in addition with a...
House Keeper Today the Iconic Houses website, a new resource for travelers and fans of 20th-century houses, goes live.
Christien Meindertsma: Act Local Since graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003, Rotterdam-based Christine Meinderstma has carved a niche for herself...
Facade Focus: Metal While still studying architecture at Eindhoven University, Servie Boetzkes and Jeroen Helder landed a commission through “friends...
Facade Focus: Brick Yves Borghs and Katleen van Ammel wanted their new house to offer maximum privacy but also maximum light.
Going Deutsch In a German town known more for its medieval castle than its modern architecture, the JustK Haus is a prefab home fit for a...
Second to None With House 2.0, architect Pieter Weijnen demonstrates the exponential rate at which green design is advancing.
Dutch Designer Focus: Hella Jongerius In her Berlin studio, rogue Dutch designer Hella Jongerius creates colorful, covetable objects that meld the handmade and the...
This Home Takes Recycling to the Next Level In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap,...
A Contemporary Nordic Town House With their light, white house that owes equal debts to its Nordic surroundings and to the Japanese provenance of its architects,...
Modern Communal Living in the Netherlands Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded...
Outside In or Inside Out? Among the kitschy, gnome-loving chalets of Holland's community gardens, Krill Architects created an anomalously spare and highly...
Furniture Fascination With designs from 14 countries and five decades inside, it may be an understatement to note that in this suburban home, furniture...
The Bilbao Effect In the last 15 years, many a postindustrial city has redefined itself as a design center.
Industrial Evolution A Norman Foster master plan has transformed a decaying German industrial port into a vibrant neighborhood.
Everyone Deserves a Richard Hutten With an impressive body of work behind him, Richard Hutten is one of the Netherlands’s most internationally successful designers.
The Placemakers "We want to position our work outside of architecture, as a clear piece of sociology and ecology."
A Suspended Living Room Floats Like an Air Ship Pieter Weijnen’s brand of maritime modernism brings a touch of magic to Amsterdam’s Steigereiland, where the architect built his...
Pure and Symbol Steeped in the past but firmly grounded in the present, the designs of Satyendra Pakhalé merge futuristic shapes with...
Et tu, Bertus? People often introduce Bertus Mulder by talking about his extraordinary pedigree.
The Suburbs Strike Back Swedish prefab specialists Smedshammar + Holmberg are on a mission to rescue their compatriots from boring suburbs—and their...
Vertical Challenge In the lofty Amsterdam apartment of Texas-born Hunter Hindman and Shelby Carr, mid-century modern mixes freely with contemporary...
Marcel Wanders “It’s a mess up here.” Marcel Wanders is talking about his brain, and the necessary disorder of an open mind in design.
The Tree of Ghent Just as the famed Treaty of 1814 called for peace between the United Kingdom and the United States, the large beech tree on...
A Live-In Kitchen on a Houseboat in Amsterdam When a couple in Amsterdam decided to upgrade their residence from a small houseboat to a larger one, they sought a design that...