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18/02 2014

FIZ Future urban design competition – BMW Group

KAAN Architecten has been selected for the next phase of the FIZ Future urban design competition in Munich launched by BMW Group.

The project’s main goal is to expand the capacity of the area dedicated to research and innovation of ca. 500.000 to 800.000sqm.

Within more than 100 applicants, BMW Group chose 12 firms. KAAN will run along with: agps architecture (ch), AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT (at), AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner (de), BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (dk), Clive Wilkinson Architects (usa), DP architects (sg), ernst niklaus fausch architekten (ch), gmp International (de), HENN (de), West 8 urban design & landscape architecture (nl) and White arktitekter AB (se).

Here the link to the official release.

12/02 2014

KAAN with EGM architecten in design competition of the CHU Île de Nantes

Together, KAAN Architecten and EGM architecten are about to draft a design for the new Nantes hospital. They will do this in consortium with the French J.Pierre Pranlas Descours Studio (JPPD) for urban development, the Dutch engineering office Valstar-Simonis, the French engineering office EVP Ingénierie and the Spanish Boma Inpasa. Furthermore French Philippe Talbot et Associés, Cicad Consultants, TN+ and Peutz et associés are in the team.

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On the whole, the European consortium has managed to qualify out of 23 inscriptions together with 3 other teams: AIA architects, which will cooperate with the Portuguese Souto de Moura, the French-Belgian Art & Build which consists of Jean-Philippe Pargade, the Artelia study office and Signes Paysage for urban development and finally the French Reichen et Robert, which consists of Groupe 6 and the study offices Ingerop, Setec and Berim.

The project teams will have six months to submit a project proposal. By the end of 2014, a definitive choice will be made by Christiane Coudrier, the superintendent of CHU Nantes.

KAAN Architecten and EGM architecten cooperated before on the university grounds of the Erasmus Medical Center. EGM architecten is responsible for the new Erasmus MC, which will open its doors in 2017. KAAN realized the Education Center in 2012.