Dezeen Showroom: Dutch design brand Bert Plantagie has collaborated with architecture studio Mecanoo to design Macaron, a modular sofa system modelled on and named after the famous French confection. More about Macaron modular sofa by Bert Plantagie and Mecanoo
Dutch social venture Shift has revealed the five shortlisted designs in a competition to design "a new wonder of the world" to promote action against climate change. More about Heatherwick, MVRDV and Mecanoo among shortlisted designs for "new world wonder"
Pixelated white-concrete forms resembling rock formations define this sprawling museum by Dutch studio Mecanoo, located in the cultural district on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. More about Mecanoo completes rock-like Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
Following a fire at dance centre Jacob's Pillow in 2020, Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has completed the Doris Duke Theatre on the Massachusetts, USA campus, with a design guided by Indigenous principles. More about Mecanoo completes "magic wooden box" theatre at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has designed the Doris Duke Theater at Massachusetts dance venue Jacob's Pillow to replace the previous theatre lost to a fire in 2020. More about Mecanoo to create "world's most technologically advanced dance venue" in the Berkshires
With just over two weeks until entries close, Dezeen Awards judges, including designers Faye Toogood and Jasper Morrison and architect Francine Houben, explained how winning can offer global recognition. More about Winning a Dezeen Award "is invaluable" says designer Faye Toogood
Mecanoo founding partner Francine Houben has joined Dezeen Awards 2024 as a judge. Here, she selects five projects that best reflect her work. More about Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards judge Francine Houben
Architects Francine Houben and Sumaya Dabbagh, designers Alfredo Häberli and Bethan Laura Wood and fashion designer Karen Millen have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. More about Karen Millen, Alfredo Häberli and Francine Houben named Dezeen Awards 2024 judges
Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Amstel Design District, a development in Amsterdam that will include housing, public outdoor spaces and a museum. More about Mecanoo designs mixed-use development as "green artery" for Amsterdam
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing MVRDV's envisioning for Vancouver's waterfront in the year 2100 and the "world's most aggressive SUV". More about "An awfully idyllic response to climate change" says commenter
Glossy ceramic tiles in shades of green and blue cover the twisting form of Villa BW, a house in the Dutch village of Schoorl designed by architecture studio Mecanoo. More about Mecanoo cloaks Dutch house in pearlescent ceramic tiles
Architecture studios Mecanoo and OTJ Architects have added a rooftop garden and statement staircases to the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC as part of its renovation of the Mies van der Rohe-designed building. More about Mecanoo and OTJ Architects complete renovation of Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library
A sculptural aluminium crown tops New York's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, which has been renovated by Dutch practice Mecanoo and American firm Beyer Blinder Belle. More about Aluminium "wizard hat" tops New York library renovation by Mecanoo
Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Macau's new central library, which will have a gridded, light-filtering facade that opens up like a book to a public square. More about Mecanoo designs Macau Central Library with light-filtering facade informed by books
Patterned aluminium panels wrap the stepped exterior of the Tainan Public Library, which Dutch studio Mecanoo and local office MAYU Architects have completed in southern Taiwan. More about Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding
Mecanoo has unveiled its proposal for the Maritime Center Rotterdam, a spiralling museum that will be wrapped by walkways and built partially below the water in Rijnhaven harbour. More about Mecanoo proposes sinuous maritime museum for Rotterdam harbour
Yellow brick walls with unarranged white windows enclose communal courtyards and timber-lined walkways at the heart of Mecanoo's housing for the University of Cambridge. More about Key Worker Housing by Mecanoo references Cambridge's "architectural inventions over the centuries"
In our final lecture as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Dutch architect Francine Houben talks about her influences and the founding of Mecanoo. More about "We already had an office before we finished school" says Francine Houben in VDF lecture
A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo.
More about Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo
Mecanoo has released visuals of Frankfurt Grand Central, a residential complex in Frankfurt, Germany, that will feature a copper-coloured tower. More about Mecanoo designs copper-coloured tower alongside Frankfurt station