Prix d’architectures is organized by the French architectural magazine d’architectures to reward the best built projects in France over the last year. Among the 30 nominees is the Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat Hauts-De-France by KAAN Architecten and PRANLAS-DESCOURS architect & associates in Lille.

Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat Hauts-De-France has won the S.ARCH 2020 award in the category Completed project – Public/Commercial.

Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat Hauts-de-France has been nominated for the prestigious Équerre d’Argent 2019 award in the category Activities. Out of over 200 applications, the jury comprised of editors of Le Moniteur and AMC nominated 20 projects, divided into five categories.

Among more than 200 entries, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay is one of 10 projects awarded the Trophée béton – a prize that distinguishes architectural achievements where concrete plays a key role; honouring architects, clients and structural and prefabrication companies.

CUBE Education and Self Study Centre at Tilburg University has been nominated for the Abe Bonnema Architectuurprijs. The jury selected four buildings from the submissions that were completed in the Netherlands in the last two years (2017-2018).

Within the Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2019, the jury has awarded a Special prize by the municipality of Vicenza to the Utopia Library and Academy for Performing Arts. The award honours the client Autonoom Gemeentebedrijf Stadsontwikkeling Aalst (AGSA) for commissioning designed by KAAN Architecten through a ‘Design & Build’ project together with Groep Van Roey.

Out of 6 nominated public libraries, a professional jury as well as the general public, voted Utopia Library and Academy for Performing Arts as the Best Library of Flanders and Brussels 2019/2020.

The project of Utopia Library and Academy for Performing Arts has won Provinciale Architectuurprijs Oost-Vlaanderen 2019. Out of 23 submissions complying to this year’s theme of ‘Re-use and redesign of historical heritage’, a professional jury recognised the importance of this project in stimulating civic life of Aalst through successful merging of historic and modern architecture.

Crematorium Siesgem in Aalst has been awarded The Plan Award 2019 in the category Public Space – Completed. The award ceremony was held on 24 May in Milan, Italy, where project architect Walter Hoogewerf presented the project to a live jury.

During Archmarathon Selections at MADE expo 2019 in Milan, Crematorium Siesegem in Aalst was awarded First prize in Religious Building Category, giving the project an automatic entry to the Archmarathon Awards 2020 shortlist.

Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay by KAAN Architecten in association with FRES architectes has won the ADC Award in the ‘Higher Education’ category. The ADC Awards, organized by magazines muuz and d’architectures, are aimed at recognizing the year’s most outstanding architectural achievements in France.

The project of Utopia Library and Academy for Performing Arts has won FRAME Awards 2019 people’s vote as Best Governmental Interior of the Year. The project is the result of a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) based on a Design & Build contract, with Van Roey as main contractor and KAAN Architecten as leading architect, working in close collaboration. Utopia opened to the public in June 2018 and since then has been an important landmark for the Aalst community.

Utopia – Library and Academy for Performing Arts in Belgium and Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay in France are among 383 international projects nominated for 2019 edition of the Mies van der Rohe Award.

During Marmomac International Trade Fair for Stone Design and Technology in Verona, KAAN Architecten won the Stone Award for Supreme Court project in The Hague which features pronounced use of light grey limestone within its interior.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal won the International Architecture Award within the ‘Transportation’ category. The International Architectural Awards are the highest and most prestigious distinguished building awards program that honor new and cutting-edge design worldwide.

The Italian architecture magazine The Plan launches every year The Plan Award. The new Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal, designed by KL AIR (KAAN Architecten, Estudio Lamela, ABT, Ineco, with the support of Arnout Meijer Studio, DGMR and Planeground), has won 2018 Transport category.

The Education Center Erasmus MC has been awarded an honourable mention by the Dedalo Minosse International Prize. KAAN Architecten and Erasmus MC received the prize in Vicenza (Italy) on June 23rd. On the same day an exhibition featuring all the winners was opened in the Palazzo Chiericati.

Starting from March 9th, 2017, the exhibition “​Daglicht Architectuur” at the Borneo Architecture Center in Amsterdam will feature all winners of the Daylight Award including the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. The project will be presented by Vincent Panhuysen in a lecture during the opening evening.

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague has been nominated for the biennial European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2017 along with other 355 projects.

On Tuesday December 13th, 2016 starting from 7 PM, Kees Kaan will give a lecture at Galería Tiro al Blanco, a new exhibition and cultural space in Guadalajara (Mexico). At the same time a photographic exhibition will illustrate KAAN Architecten’s projects.

“Where Modern Justice Lives”, curated by architect Elsie Owusu OBE of the Supreme Court Arts Trust, will feature Supreme Court of the Netherlands by KAAN Architecten. The show will encourage visitors to reflect on the role that court buildings have in supporting public confidence in democracy and the rule of law.

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague has been awarded with the annual ARC16 Architecture Award that aims to promote sustainability in the broadest sense of the word and as an integral part of the design.

The Daylight Award is a Dutch biennial prize for buildings that have a pronounced daylight quality. This year the Supreme Court of the Netherlands has been awarded thanks to its rich array of daylight aspects and to the smart strategies for artificial lighting.

The Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura – Argentina 2016 will take place in Cordoba (Argentina) from October 11th to 14th. The event will host 5 international speakers and it will feature 36 international works including the Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique.

The dualism of then and now, the contemporary renewal by KAAN Architecten in the Maaskant spirit, have been captured in both photographs by Sebastian van Damme, and words by Ruud Brouwers. Their complementary works are now combined in the book, published by KAAN Architecten.

Since early 2014, Dominique Panhuysen followed the construction of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague, producing an insightful documentation of the building process. Focusing her attention on people, traces of life and gesture, this voluminous compound is able to depict, at the same time, the beauty and the roughness of this high court complex.

On November 3rd, 2015 Vincent Panhuysen received a medal of merit from the Commissioner of the King, Wim van de Donk, for the special and careful guidance in the renovation of the Provinciehuis of North-Brabant.

Education Center Erasmus MC is part of the touring exhibition featuring the 40 shortlisted project of Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. Starting point, Barcelona – MUHBA Oliva Artés centre, it will then travel to Milan, Brussels, Warsaw, Vienna, Shanghai, Hong Kong and more.

Education Center Erasmus MC within the 40 shortlisted projects (out of 420) of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015.

Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay project is part of the exhibition “Paris-Saclay. Le Futur en Chantier(s)” at the Maison de l’architecture en Ile-de-France in Paris (November 28th – December 20th, 2014)

Philippe Rotthier Prize 2014 exhibition is featuring District Water Board Brabantse Delta at the Foundation pour l’Architecture in Brussels (October 18th – November 23rd, 2014).

The project for the City Hall Park of São Bernardo do Campo municipality in São Paolo (Brazil) is part of the exhibition “The City as a Vision” at the FRAC Centre – Les Turbulences in Orléans, France (September 19th,2014 – February 22nd, 2015).

Collateral Event during the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (June 6th – October 31st, 2014) at the Conservatorio di Musica “Benedetto Marcello”

Education Center Erasmus MC has won the 9th Saint-Gobain Gypsum International Trophy (plasterboard category) as runner-up.

The Dreamhouse the yearly aluminium award for Sustainable Renovation projects.

The Education Center Erasmus MC won the yearly prize dedicated to transformation projects, while the Dreamhouse was nominated.

The Student Dwellings won the audience award thanks to the public preference.

The Education Center Erasmus MC won the bi-annual trophy for innovative roofing and façade’s solutions.

KAAN participated in the only biennial exhibition in the world based exclusively on the set themes of urbanism and urbanization, and co-organized by the two neighboring and closely interacting cities of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

The Crematorium Heimolen received the special mention for the building category.

The Central Post won the award for the “most sustainable design” category.

The AM Headquarters and its white concrete structure won the “non-residential building” category.

Selection of the work of Claus en Kaan Architecten presented in a book showing an increasingly explicit and recognisable signature over the years.

The Crematorium Heimolen won the concrete award for the “beton en samenleving” category.

Inaugural speech of Kees Kaan as Professor of Architectural Design at the Delft University of Technology in 2008.

The Crematorium Heimolen first prize for the really specific funeral award.

The Netherlands Forensic Institute won this interiors’ award promoted by the magazine “de Architect”.

The NAi Publishers said of the building: “It is an exceptional building, designed to a Dutch vision yet constructed using African materials”.

Claus en Kaan: L’architettura dell’attenzione = Claus en Kaan: The Architecture of Attentiveness

A short introduction to Claus en Kaan work.

Building – for all its simplicity the title of this book speaks volumes about the work of Claus and Kaan.

New generations in the Dutch tradition. 14 projects in chronological order depicted by photos, plans, models, sections, elevations (many technical drawings) – all in B&W.