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The W.I.N.D House

UNStudio has designed the W.I.N.D. house in the Netherlands to nestle into its natural setting while admitting light and views to the interior.
Suzanne-Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
November 15, 2015
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A house by architect Ben van Berkel rarely could be described as a glass box. Instead the principal of the Amsterdam-based UNStudio avoids the rectilinear modernist approach for a more organic direction.


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Ardmore Residence

High Life: UNStudio uses an inventive design for a luxe tower in Singapore
November 15, 2013
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Architect Ben van Berkel of Amsterdam-based firm UNStudio used a unique pinwheel plan to design the Ardmore Residence, creating a new architectural icon in Singapore.


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House Beside a Vineyard

Let's Twist: A dynamic study in contrasts, this sculptural villa is a reflection of German tradition and style, as well as of the couple who commissioned it.
David Cohn
April 16, 2012
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There's a swirl at the center of UNStudio's House Beside a Vineyard outside Stuttgart, Germany.


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Art Collector's Loft

Suzanne-Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
September 16, 2010
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Ben van Berkel, principal of the Amsterdam-based architectural firm UNStudio, is known for his breathtakingly swoopy designs of sleek surfaces that never seem to end. The gleaming, aluminum-clad Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, with its double-spiral-ramped concrete structure, convincingly argues the case [RECORD, November, 2006, page 128]. After completing that nine-story-high, 270,000 square-foot building, you might think that a 5,840-square-foot (gross) residential loft would be too rinky-dink a commission. Van Berkel argues otherwise: “I’m not interested as much in the scale of a project as with the program,” he explains. In this case, he was asked to design a loft
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MUMUTH Music Theater

UNStudio keeps Graz humming with its MUMUTH music building.
Victoria Newhouse
October 19, 2009
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In the daytime, unStudio’s Haus für Musik und Musiktheater (MUMUTH) is a mysterious presence among historic houses on Lichtenfelsgasse Street in Graz, Austria’s second-largest city.


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Agora Theater

UNStudio shocks a quiet Dutch city to life with the crystalline form and electric colors of the Agora Theater.
David Sokol
May 19, 2008
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Imagine Ben van Berkel as a child, traveling among the theaters of the Netherlands to listen to his mother sing in the chorus of the latest musical.


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VilLA NM

Joining rectilinear forms with a twist, UNStudio’s VilLA NM, in upstate New York, captures the landscape in gold reflections
Suzanne-Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
April 1, 2007
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The client, a New York–based developer with a young family, had a clear goal: a weekend house “as exciting as anything by Neutra and Schindler.”


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