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Rotes Wien (Red Vienna)
Vienna

Rotes Wien (Red Vienna)

If one speaks about housing, one often refers to the model in Vienna. But what is that Viennese model? We will take a walk through history of housing in this city.

Learning from Schokland
Schokland

Learning from Schokland

The news broke in November 2025: after careful consideration, the municipal council of Moerdijkin the Netherlands sees opportunities for expanding the industrial estate only if the village of Moerdijk eventually disappears. Can Moerdijk learn from Schokland?

Architecture intertwined with craftmanship
Weimar and Glasgow

Architecture intertwined with craftmanship

Something continues to attract us to the Arts & Crafts movement. The combination of architecture, interior and furniture design from the perspective of craftsmanship: creating a Gesamtkunstwerk. In Weimar, you can find that work in Henny van de Velde, and in Glasgow in Charles Rennie Mackintosh, although his work has not always been well preserved.

Modern medieval life
Zuidwest Frankrijk

Modern medieval life

We continue to be fascinated when looking at a series of the same phenomenon. By making comparisons, you learn what binds the series and where the differences lie. Whether they are buildings such as Gradierwerke (see our story ‘Where salt production, branches and cures come together’) or air watchtowers (our story ‘The watchers of time gone by’), or cities. The bastides, medieval new towns in southwest France, form such an interesting series.