Modern building blocks on the water. Sluishuis is a contemporary translation of the typology of the Amsterdam building block that responds specifically to its special location in the water. The volume is elevated on one side to allow the water into the courtyard and stepped down on the other side to make an inviting gesture towards IJburg with friendly green terraces. From every angle, you exper..

The building is in the city of Seongnam, south of Seoul, South Korea. It stands on a lot at the end of an expanding neighborhood. The original conformation of the project land is irregular and is located between a neighborhood street to the south and a bordering terrain on the north side. The rectangular volume develops along the north side of the perimeter and fits into the urban context in a p..

Belvue School is a secondary school for boys and girls with moderate to severe learning difficulties and a range of other additional needs. The school site sits adjacent to an under-utilized woodland which the school is managing as an educational nature reserve. In 2014 the school had already raised enough money to install two shipping containers to act as storage and support spaces for the wood..

새로운 '디자인 인 모션 오피스'는 향후 건물이 한 채 더 추가될 예정인 부지에 건설되었기 때문에 이 새로운 오피스 빌딩은 그 계획을 뒷받침하기 위해 토지의 절반만 지어야 했습니다. 이 때문에 이 사무실은 10 x 10m의 경계 내에서 3층 건물로 수직 방향으로 설정되었다. 건물도 한쪽은 토지의 한쪽 가장자리에 인접하게 배치되고 다른 쪽은 고층에 대형 발코니가 있는 미래 건물과 연결될 수 있도록 준비되어 있습니다. The new ‘Design in Motion office’ has been constructed on the land where is planned to add one more building in the future, therefore this new office building had t..

In the summer garden, the plants are in a more natural and wild state, and the original clear boundaries fade away, with plants staggering in height, creating an experience from enclosure to seclusion and then to openness. The teahouse is located at the eastern end of the garden. Walking along the stone-paved path is like a natural exploration of the garden, and the outline of the teahouse emerg..

After the spectacular project of its Paris showroom in February 2022, polette has collaborated once again with Javier Zubiria, founder of the Amsterdam-based architectural firm zU-Studio to bring to Antwerp a never-seen-before retail concept. It all started with a song, released exactly 50 years ago and yet more relevant than ever: Imagine, by John Lennon. After two years of people being apart f..