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Journal
What we are building, what we got wrong, and what we said about it in public. Written by the people who drew the buildings.
Site notes · 26 September 2026
Site notes: Santo Amaro, week 31
The first lift of the new block is poured inside the old sheds, and the brick wall gets its 50 mm gap.
Leonor Teixeira · 1 min read
Related projectSanto Amaro Depot →
News · 21 August 2026
Kanaal Housing tops out
The last precast frame of the 90 m slab is in place; the first residents move in next spring.
Samir Haddad · 1 min read
Related projectKanaal Housing →
Lecture · 12 May 2026
Lecture: Heavy and quiet
Tomás Varela at the Porto school on why weight is a kind of calm.
Tomás Varela · 1 min read
Related projectPedreira Steps →
Site notes · 8 April 2026
Site notes: Genk, the ramp
The ramp reaches the old mine-gallery level, and the first visitors walk down it in hard hats.
Yuki Arai · 1 min read
Related projectGenk Mining Museum →
Lecture · 20 November 2025
Lecture: The drawing is the building
Kwame Mensah on generating drawing sets that stay true to the model.
Kwame Mensah · 1 min read
Essay · 4 March 2025
On board marks
Why we still specify sawn boards, and what a wall remembers about the week it was poured.
Agnieszka Wolak · 1 min read
Related projectBasalt Reading Room →
Lecture · 18 February 2025
Lecture: Losing well
Samir Haddad on what a second prize in Bergen taught the competition team.
Samir Haddad · 1 min read
Related projectBergen Ferry Terminal →
Essay · 2 October 2024
What the courthouse taught us
Five years in, Kleve Courthouse is used differently from how we drew it, and better.
Maren Hollander · 1 min read
Related projectKleve Courthouse →
Essay · 30 June 2023
The case for small windows
Every opening is a decision. In the south, a small one is often the generous one.
Tomás Varela · 1 min read
Related projectSagres Cliff House →
News · 18 November 2022
Silo No. 7 wins the Hollander Prize for Reuse
The jury called it “a conversion that knows when to stop”. We are taking that as an instruction.
Maren Hollander · 1 min read
Related projectSilo No. 7 →
Site notes · 14 September 2021
Site notes: moving sand on Texel
Burying a building means moving the dune twice: once to build, once to put it back.
Ingrid Solberg · 1 min read
Related projectTexel Dune Observatory →
News · 9 January 2017
Two new associates
Samir Haddad and Ingrid Solberg join the studio's associates.
Hanna Lindqvist · 1 min read