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 collaborated with FlySolo to design a pediatric medical center in Beijing, a novel approach to rehabilitation in China and one that reimagines the healthcare experience from the perspective of both children and their parents. The design was inspired by FlySolo’s mission to empower children of all abilities to take an active role in society, […] More
UNStudio‘s design for Palas Residential, the IULIUS company’s most recent project in Iasi, Romania’s historic city center, has been chosen as the winning design. Foster+Partners, MVRDV, and Zaha Hadid Architects were among the four international companies chosen for the competition to create the best design for a new development in the city’s center in Romania. […] More
In 2019, the Hyundai Development Company commissioned UNStudio to design a superior, green, mixed-use neighbourhood in Seoul; a smart ’10-minute city’ for the new digital economy, where open innovation, green energy, and diversity combine to create an attractive and productive area to live, work, and play. Take a look at the complete story after the […] More
UNStudio and DA Group were selected as the winners of the competition for the Chungnam Art Museum in South Korea. The winning consortium comprises design partners UNStudio and DA Group, Squint/Opera (digital content and exhibition design), Loos van Vliet (landscape design) and UNSense (community content). The design for the Chungnam Art Museum goes far beyond […] More
Brainport Eindhoven is currently one of the leading innovative technology regions in Europe. To enhance its international positioning as an inspiring region of technology, design and knowledge, the Dutch city of Eindhoven has the ambition to realise a clearly identifiable, new, state of the art congress and conference centre. More
UNStudio has designed a sustainable masterplan for Gyeongdo Island, a new 470,000 m2 leisure destination in South Korea where nature plays the leading role. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
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