Claus en Kaan Architecten

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Claus was born in 1956 in Arnheim and Kaan was born in Breda, in 1961. They both graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1987.{{cite book |last=Schittich |first=Christian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VrRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 |title=In Detail Work Environments: Spatial concepts Usage Strategies Communications |date=2011-01-01 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-03-461520-4 |pages=168– |accessdate=5 April 2014}}

They formed the firm of Claus en Kaan Architecten in 1987.

Claus en Kaan designed the master plan of the IJburg district of Amsterdam and later moved their offices to a building they designed in the district.

Kees Kaan and Felix Claus once stated that their ambition was to extinguish the schism between low practice and high theory,{{cite book |last1=Ibelings |first1=Hans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adpNAAAAYAAJ |title=Contemporary Architects of the Low Countries |last2=Strauven |first2=Francis |publisher=Flemish-Netherlands Foundation, Stichting ons Erfdeel |year=2000 |isbn=978-90-75862-44-7 |accessdate=5 April 2014}} between architecture that serves its immediate objective and architecture that speaks over the heads of its users to colleagues and critics.{{cite web|url=http://www.architectenweb.nl/aweb/archipedia/archipedia.asp?ID=7654 |title=Claus en Kaan Architecten – archipedia |publisher=architectenweb.nl |date= |accessdate=2013-11-09}}{{relevance inline|date=April 2014}}

On 15 January 2014, the company released a statement announcing the ending of the partnership between Claus and Kaan as from 1 January 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.dearchitect.nl/nieuws/2014/01/15/claus-en-kaan-architecten-uit-elkaar.html | title=Claus en Kaan uit elkaar |publisher=dearchitect.nl |date=2014-01-15 |accessdate=2014-08-06}} After such ending, Felix Claus started a partnership with Dick van Wageningen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mchmaster.com/faculty/felix-claus/|title=Felix Claus|website=www.mchmaster.com|language=en|access-date=2018-07-16}}

In 2004, opened the Dutch Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. The building unites Dutch design and techniques with locally sourced materials and constraints, bringing the office spaces up to a European standard, whilst still taking into consideration history and the locality of the place.{{cite web|url=http://www.archined.nl/oem/reportages/mozambique/mozambique-eng.html |title=Dutch embassy Maputo Mozambique – Claus en Kaan architecten |publisher=Archined.nl |date= |accessdate=2013-11-09}} The Netherlands Architecture Institute publishers said of the building: "It is an exceptional building, designed to a Dutch vision yet constructed using African materials".{{cite web |url=http://www.naipublishers.nl/architecture/maputo_e.html |title=NAi Publishers: Claus en Kaan Architecten – The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique |publisher=Naipublishers.nl |date= |accessdate=2013-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109013028/http://www.naipublishers.nl/architecture/maputo_e.html |archive-date=2013-11-09 |url-status=dead }}

In 2008, Claus en Kaan completed a crematorium {{cite web |url=http://www.cementenbeton.nl/bouwen-met-beton/bouwen-met-beton-inzendingen-2010/1601-crematorium-heimolen-st-niklaas-b |title=Crematorium Heimolen, St. Niklaas (B) |publisher=Cementenbeton.nl |accessdate=2013-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109004309/http://www.cementenbeton.nl/bouwen-met-beton/bouwen-met-beton-inzendingen-2010/1601-crematorium-heimolen-st-niklaas-b |archive-date=2013-11-09 |url-status=dead }} in the Belgian town of Sint-Niklaas, it won the 2009 Dutch National Concrete Award, the Betonprijs and was nominated for the ESCN award in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.ecsn.net/?section=Award&sub=Review&rv=2010 |title=Award |publisher=ECSN |date= |accessdate=2013-11-09}} Catherine Slessor, editor of the Architectural Review called it ‘a powerful statement, evoking timelessness, elementality, and a connection with nature’.Slessor C., [http://www.architectural-review.com/heimolen-crematorium-by-claus-en-kaan-architecten-sint-niklaas-belgium/8601260.article Heimolen Crematorium by Claus en Kaan Architecten, Sint Niklaas, Belgium], "The Architectural Review", April 1, 2009

The firm designed the House of Culture and Administration in Nijverdal.Sokol D., [http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6544507.html For a Dutch village's House of Culture and Administration, Claus en Kaan and Claudy Jongstra bridged past and present] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120082423/http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6544507.html |date=2008-11-20 }}, "Interior Design", March 1, 2008

It has also designed "social housing" projects in Ypenburg, at The Hague Vinex-location under the MVRDV masterplan.{{cite web|url=http://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/ypenburg/ |title=Mvrdv – Ypenburg |publisher=Mvrdv.nl |date= |accessdate=2013-11-09}}Raymund R., [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Double+dutch.-a019330784 Double Dutch; housing in Amsterdam], "The Architectural Review", February 1, 1997 The firm has completed an "upscale collection of boxy units" named Rietvelden, after the "Dutch modernist master" Gerrit Rietveld, in a suburban development in Ypenburg.Hawthorne C., [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/garden/design-dispatch-the-dutch-retouch-suburbia.html?pagewanted=2 The Dutch Retouch Suburbia], "The New York Times", January 15, 2004

The firm also designed Mövenpick's 408-room hotel tower that opened in 2007 in Amsterdam's harbor area. The hotel has "a 20-story exterior striped in alternating bands of glass, white concrete and green granite — not unlike an enormous Popsicle."Williams G., [http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/travel/21checkin.html?ref=travelAmsterdam: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre], "The New York Times", January 21, 2007

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• 2012–2014 -National Military Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands
• 2012 – Supreme Court of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands
• 2010 – Gedempte Zalmhaven, Rotterdam
• 2008–2012 – Central Judicial Collection Agency, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
• 2008–2009 -Dwelling Edmond Halleylaan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2008 – El Prat de LLobregat, Barcelona, Spain
• 2007–2011 -Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
• 2006–2009 -Central Post, Rotterdam
• 2006–2009 -Vancouver, Rotterdam
• 2006–2009 -Villa Trapman, Nieuwveen, Netherlands
• 2006–2011 -AM Headquarters, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 2005–2010 -Palace of Justice, Amsterdam
• 2005–2008 -Local Government Office, Amsterdam
• 2005–2007 -CK Office, Amsterdam
• 2004–2010 -District Water Board Brabantse Delta on Bouvigne Estate, Breda, Netherlands
• 2004–2008 -Apartments Eekenhof, Enschede, Netherlands
• 2004–2008 -Crematorium Heimolen, Sint Niklaas, Belgium
• 2004–2007 -Municipal Archives 'De Bazel', Amsterdam
• 2004–2006 -Academy of Architecture', Amsterdam

• Berg J., Ibelings H., Claus en Kaan Architecten: Ideal Standard, Buildings 1988–2009, Amsterdam, Prototype Editions, 2009
• Forjaz J., Gaunt R., Ibelings H., Claus en Kaan Architecten. The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique, Rotterdam, NAi Publishers, 2005
• Costanzo M., Claus en Kaan. L’architettura dell’attenzione, Torino, Edilstampa, 2004
• Yamamoto R., Beauftragt: Claus en Kaan Architecten, Berlin, Aedes, 2002
• Ibelings H., Claus en Kaan. Building, Rotterdam/Beijing, NAi Publishers, 2001/2004
• Claus F., van Dongen F., Schaap T., IJburg. Haveneiland en Reitlanden: brief design plan, Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 2001
• Claus en Kaan, Michel H., Richters C., Claus en Kaan, Amsterdam, ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem, 2001
• Ferrater C., Claus en Kaan. New generations in the Dutch tradition, Barcelona, Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1997

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Vries, Netherlands

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Groningen, Netherlands

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Groningen, Netherlands

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• [http://www.clausvanwageningen.nl/ Felix Claus Dick van Wageningen architecten website]
• [http://kaanarchitecten.com/ KAAN Architecten website]

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