UNStudio founded 30 years years ago Ben van Berkel, a lecturer at TU Delft, and Caroline Bos, an art historian and architectural journalist. At their kitchen table, they sketched out their first projects, and the future of UNStudio. Fast forward three decades and UNStudio is operating from six international offices and designing in over 30 countries.
Today Ben and Caroline are working with over 200 architects and designers. Every day, these creatives shape the resilient world they want to live in, focusing every inch of design around human needs: connecting fast-growing communities, housing cultural institutions, building homes, harnessing emerging technologies, and educating young creatives.
UNStudio’s moto is connecting people to places and to each other, in relevant, flexible and future-proof ways. UNstudio has built the foundations of their company along those very same future-proof principles.
UNStudio was recently selected as the winner in the competition for the first ever cross border cable car, which will carry passengers across the Amur River to connect Russia and China. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
The world renowned UNStudio architecture practice shares today their design of the The Lyric Theatre Complex located in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. This truly massive project is taking on 40 hectare waterfront space in a true cultural area developed alongside museums, theaters and concert halls. Hong Kong is determined to make […] More
Beulah International selected UNStudio‘s proposal for Australia’s tallest tower from designs submitted by six of the world’s leading architecture firms. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
UNStudio has joined forces with HPP Architects to create a consortium (UNS + HPP) to carry out the next phases of their winning project at the architectural design competition for FOUR Frankfurt. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
Just four and a half years after its official opening (September 2012), the UNStudio designed Kutaisi International Airport has grown rapidly from 12,915 passengers per year to more than 300,000 in 2016. Predictions for the low-cost airliner airport are such that it is expected to reach a capacity of close to 1,000,000 passengers by 2020. […] More
Designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio, CapitaLand’s new Raffles City is a sustainable urban hub for living, working and leisure located in Hangzhou, one of China’s most picturesque cities. It forms the eighth Raffles City development in China. More
Lane 189, located in the Putuo district in central Shanghai – opposite Chang Shou Park and close to the Jade Buddha Temple – is designed to provide a lifestyle destination for Shanghai’s young professionals. Lane189 combines retail, restaurant and office spaces in an organisation that rearranges the typical mall into a vertical city centre and […] More
UNStudio recently completed their first project in Belgium: Le Toison d’Or. The building, which is constructed in Brussels in partnership with Belgian studio Jaspers-Eyers, is a block construction for mixed residential and commercial use. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
The Canaletto tower, designed by the Amsterdam-based UNStudio, has given the Tech City a residential revamp. Located half-way between Old Street and Angel stations, the streamlined high rise comprises 31 stories of apartments, including the newly launched, three bed Beaumont suites. Inside each of these high end homes on the 25th to 28th floors, by […] More
UNStudio has recently completed the impressive Fairyland Guorui Villas residential project in Beijing. The sculptural villas are placed alongside the riverside in Beijing, while all following the same sentiment each unit has its own characteristics. The architectural masterplan envisions sculptural villas scattered along the riverside, each with its own characteristics and living spaces, but embedded in the […] More
What has influenced the new Den Bosch Theatre design is the participation of the residents of the town, who played their part in the selection of Ben van Berkel / UNStudio as the design team. After the competition instead of city Councillors the citizens of Den Bosch were invited to actually vote on two designs in the […] More
Singapore University of Technology & Design – SUTD designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio and DP Architects is now completed, the design itself is in time with today’s millennials. It embodies connectivity, collaboration, as well as innovation and sociality. The new campus with almost 83,000 square meters is located closely to Changi Airport in […] More