Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant Interior by eins:eins Architects

The purpose of the newly-founded chain, nat. fine bio food, is to make fast food healthy, to offer delicious organic food in a timely manner – and this in a contemporary environment. nat. brings together Organic and Lifestyle, and with this follows the increasingly-important LOHAS-Trend (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability). The main contradiction of a “natural” restaurant in an artificial urban environment becomes the core of the design.... 

Nijmegen City Bridge “De Oversteek”

The project by NeyPoulissen Architects & Engineers includes a tied-arch bridge over the Waal river with a clear span of 285 m, as well as the approach viaducts that make up a total length of 1.2 km. This new crossing will connect the western part of the city to the ring road and will allow redevelopment of the southern docklands. The scenography of the new crossing has played an important role in the project. The design results from the imposing... 

PLUS Residence by Mount Fuji Architects Studio

The project was assigned to Mount Fuji Architects Studio in 2007; the architects where to asked to design a weekend house in a site which was rather untouched by the human hand. The intact wilderness of the land on mount Izu-san was covered with deciduous broad-leaved trees such as cherry trees and Japanese oaks. The architects “saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge” of the mountain. They didn’t want to create elaborate...