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DE KORT VAN SCHAIK is a studio that specializes in architecture and urbanism, and is based in Rotterdam. The office was founded in 2011 by Robert-Jan de Kort and Sander van Schaik. DE KORT VAN SCHAIK is in constant collaboration with Antwerp based office VAN NOTEN.

Profile
Projects
Writing

Elderly Housing and Daycare /
Overijse BE

Infinity Room CS /
Rotterdam Central Station

Community Centre /
Moorsel BE

Den Indruk / Brugge BE

Swan Lake Villa District /
Yuncheng CN

Cardiology Research Centre

TALKS about architecture /
Rotterdam NL

Polderplaats / Wulpen BE

Maff Studio / The Hague NL

Het Kleine Huisje /
Raamsdonk NL

Long House / Aalst BE

Two Wide Houses / Aalst BE

Hotel Centro / Guadalajara MX

Storefront for Domesticity /
Rotterdam NL

Loft Nonloft / Lima PE

Te Water /
's-Hertogenbosch NL

Niche City / Munich DE

Loft-Twee-Hoog / The Hague NL

Balderdorp / Berlaar BE

Montage City / Almere NL

Prix de Rome 2014 /
Interviews

The building celebrates space. Programme often the driving force in structuring spaces is of secondary importance here. This is

Rotterdamse Kunstkalender /
Short text

Bouwen is een proces van toevoegen. Stapsgewijs stapelen de elementen zich op om de vooraf zorgvuldig ontworpen ruimtelijkheid te

Dutch Design Yearbooks /
Project texts

The Dutch Design Yearbooks present an attractive overview of the best spatial product fashion and graphic designs

Hedy d'Ancona Prize /
Jury reports

The Hedy d’Ancona Prize is an award for outstanding health care architecture in the Netherlands. The Creative Industries Fund NL

Context /
Interview David Chipperfield

It’s about core values. Why not reduce something to a basis simple thing? And why don’t you take form out of those things? We don’t want

Architecture in Flanders 2010 /
Book review

Between the covers the layout exudes a great sense of calm and control. Text sections alternate with drawings and serene photos.

I'm always in the building /
Interview Peter Zumthor

Nowadays architecture has nothing to do with bones and structures and anatomy any more only with skin. This was not about skin this was

De Naakten van Kerez /
Lecture review

Door deze per verdieping anders te knikken onderhandelt de betonnen muur tussen de ruimtelijkheden van beide

How to make a Japanese House /
Book review

Het maakt dat je als lezer volledig wordt meegenomen in de denkwereld van de Japanse architecten die niet eerst in hun antwoorden een

Rotterdam Architecture Prize /
Jury essay

In het ontwerp draait alles om de ervaring van de reiziger die in het gebouw opstijgt of afdaalt. Het traject loopt van de

Common sense in Arnhem /
Symposium review

Had zij niet zojuist treffend aangetoond dat bouwen ertoe doet zowel op economisch als op technisch en sociaal vlak? En had

A seed, some soil and the sun /
Interview with Co-PLAN

I don’t see that organic area development means: people on their own and local government on its own. On the contrary: I see it as an

Grand Urban Rules /
Book review

Clever handling of the regulations to produce exceptions was demonstrated by among others billionaire Donald

Better than Avatar /
Book presentation review

True the idea of a green utopia with the aim of a post-utopia in which mankind can indulge his hedonist lusts again on earth may sound