Yesterday, the Kingdom of Netherlands officially unveiled a $2.3 million pavilion at Peter Minuit Plaza in Manhattan, a national gift to New York designed to honor the city's rich Dutch history. The 5,000-square-foot pavilion was the ...READ»
Most tax offices are about as charming as, well, doing your taxes. Leave it to UNStudio's Ben van Berkel -- an architect who made an NYC loft look like sculpture and a shopping mall feel like a museum -- to design a government tax ...READ»
Some of history’s best furniture designers worked as architects. In this great tradition, UNStudio, the mega-talented Dutch architects headed up by Ben van Berkel, will unveil three chair designs at this year’s Salone ...READ»
UNStudio, the wonderfully imaginative firm of Dutch architect Ben van Berkel, has built something virtually unheard of in the architecture world: a shopping mall that doesn't suck.
Not only does it not suck, it's actually pretty ...READ»
We don’t have much to say about this loft in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village except that a.) it’s gorgeous and b.) we’d kill to live here if we weren’t worried about blood spattering on its beautifully bleached ...READ»
To mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival, New York unveils a gift from the Netherlands--a spiral-shaped visitor's center where 70,000 daily commuters pass.READ»
Chicago's Millennium Park isn't hurting for art installations, with a Frank Gehry-designed bandshell, a brilliant mirrored sculpture by Anish Kapoor, and elegant grounds landscaped by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. But on June 19, ...READ»
Steve Martin once quipped that talking about music is like dancing about architecture. But it makes a certain sense that architecture can express music pretty well. That's what Ben Van Berkel, of UNStudio, was going for in his ...READ»