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Studioninedots Transforms a Former Tobacco Factory into a Mixed-Use Urban Complex in Groningen, Netherlands

Antonia Piñeiro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Studioninedots is leading the transformation of a 200-year-old tobacco factory site into Niemeyer, a mixed-use urban complex accommodating digital innovation, cultural venues, hospitality, education, and manufacturing within the existing industrial buildings. Located on Paterswoldseweg in Groningen, the Netherlands, the 38,000 m² project is commissioned by MWPO, with MWPO and Campus Groningen jointly acting as clients for the Shared Facilities. Currently in the design phase (2023–2025), the project's provisional timelines indicate a phased construction start beginning with the factory's southern section in 2026, followed by the northern section in 2027. The Amsterdam-based office's proposal opens the formerly closed industrial ensemble to the public, introducing cafés, galleries, workshops, and shared workspaces distributed across interior streets and adjacent park areas.

Education Centre University of Groningen / KAAN Architecten

Andreas Luco — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

KAAN Architecten unveils the Education Centre University of Groningen: an innovation hub and study landscape. KAAN Architecten has completed the Education Centre University of Groningen (Anda Kerkhoven Centre). The 12,000 m² building forms the new heart and main entrance of the Healthy Ageing Campus. It is designed to support learning, promote health, and foster social interaction. The architecture embodies these principles, creating a space that prioritises the well-being of its users.

Mercado in Groningen / De Zwarte Hond + Loer Architecten

Paula Pintos — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

With the completion of Mercado and the redevelopment of Rode Weeshuisstraat, Groningen city center’s north side gets a new boost. The building, together with the new Stalplein next to it, embodies an urban transformation geared towards pedestrians and encounters. The design of Mercado and the urban plan for Rode Weeshuisstraat were created by the architectural collaboration of De Zwarte Hond and Loer Architecten on behalf of developers MWPO and Beauvast. Mercado features a monumental plinth with 41 sustainable apartments above it, built by Plegt-Vos.

Regulateur Housing Complex / De Zwarte Hond

Andreas Luco — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The Regulateur is a compact housing block with 105 apartments, of which 79 are social rentals and 26 mid-rentals, built around an inner courtyard garden. The collaboration in the Grunobuurt was designed with the aim of making people live healthier and happier in their homes.

SuperHub Meerstad Market / De Zwarte Hond

Paula Pintos — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the mission to better connect the burgeoning Groningen district, and to transform it into an interactive social space, De Zwarte Hond was commissioned by real estate developer MWPO to design a multifunctional and adaptive central building for the neighborhood. The innovative community hub was inaugurated on November 2nd.

Schots 1 + 2 Residential Complex / Studio Woodroffe Papa

Andreas Luco — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0000

We were commissioned to assist the municipality of Groningen to develop a masterplan to regenerate and revitalise the CiBoGa Terrein, a 14ha industrial, polluted site on the edge of Groningen’s city centre. The project has since become a Dutch national pilot scheme for sustainable urban renewal. The site, situated on the old ramparts of the city and historically a place of transition and movement, called for a design approach with public and communal spaces that could deliver both urban character and suburban qualities. We identified the role of the site in the city’s ecological structure and led research into new forms of housing typologies and energy use.

Forum Groningen Multifunctional Building / NL Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Forum Groningen is a new multifunctional building in the center of Groningen, a cultural ‘department store’ filled with books and images, that offers exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants. The Forum aspires to become a platform for interaction and debate, a ‘living room’ for the city.

Rietwierde Community School / Moke Architecten

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sun, 19 May 2019 05:00:00 +0000

On the periphery of a nondescript residential area in Groningen, Gianni Cito designed a large building for two schools, two childcare centres and a playground. From the outset, the end users played an important role in this project, engaging in regular dialogue with the architect during workshops. One of the significant outcomes was the proposal to share out-of-school care facilities, play rooms, gym, kitchen, staff room, science classroom and the playground.

Prince Claus Conservatory / BDG Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:00:00 +0000

In the renewed, extensive and earthquake-proof Prince Claus Conservatory all courses are brought together under one roof: the Jazz department and the department for Classical music. BDG Architects has transformed the old inward-facing building into a visible school that both shows the international standing and the warm-heartedness of the conservatory.

Energy Academy Europe / Broekbakema + De Unie Architecten

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The Energy Academy Europe (EAE) is the most sustainable education building of The Netherlands. The natural elements of earth, water, air, and sunlight are used innovatively in a solar chimney, winter garden, atrium and air labyrinth. This results in both a BREEAM Outstanding score and an energy-positive structure that will completely offset its carbon footprint within 40 years.

Tschumi Pavillion / Academy of Architecture Groningen

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 09:00:00 +0000

The Tschumi pavilion
The Tschumi pavilion was designed in 1990 by the architect Bernard Tschumi as part of a partially outdoor art exhibition held in the city of Groningen in the same year: the What a Wonderful World! Music Videos in Architecture manifestation. Now, 27 years later, the pavilion has indeed gradually accumulated an impressive portfolio as an urban public vitrine for all kinds of art projects.

CMY Pavilion / Shift architecture urbanism

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:00:00 +0000

The Tschumipavilion was originally built as a video pavilion for the city-wide exhibition-event “What a Wonderfull World” in 1990. Scattered around the city, five pavilions brought pop-music videos into the public realm. They were designed by the architectural avant-garde of the time, labeled two years earlier as 'deconstructivist' by the MOMA. The pavilions of Eisenman, Hadid, and Himmelblau disappeared, while the ones of Koolhaas and Tschumi remained.

Community Center in Groningen / Kwint Architecten

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:00:39 +0000

Kwint Architecten designed a community centre for the Paddepoel-Zuid & Tuinwijk districts in de dutch City of Groningen. The community center is located in a parc, called the Bessemoerpark, as a link between the two districts. As part of the transformation of the parc, Kwint Architecten was assigned to design a building with it’s own character, independent from the parc. The building is set up as an unpretentious master volume with an elongated shape. The volume is placed crosswise in the elongated parc, as a result of which transforms the building in a link between the two adjacent city districts.

Infoversum / ARCHIVIEW

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Conveniently located near the centre of Groningen, the Infoversum cannot be overlooked. It is a building that makes one curious and that needs to be explored. Never before have so many different fields of expertise, goals and techniques successfully been combined in one design.

Multifunctional Barn / Onix

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0000

This multifunctional barn ̶ designed as a separate annexe ̶ is situated on an old farmyard. In the course of time the yard as well as the farmhouse it belongs to, have been swallowed up by the growing city of Groningen. The multifunctional barn borders the yard’s rear side, thus providing the yard with more shelter. Its slightly angulated facade corresponds to the movement in the yard. It also forms the yard’s second focal point, opposing the entrance of the existing farmhouse.

Court-housing Cortinghborg Groningen / Architecten|en|en

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:00:00 +0000

On a former sports field within the ring road of the Dutch town of Groningen, a new residential district is being realised by creating a 'scenery landscape'. This plan achieves the coherence and transition between the 'garden village' De Oude Hoogte and the industrial area on the northern side of the ring road. The division into sequential living atmospheres provides a varied range of housing typologies.

Leegkerk Church Interior Renovation / awg architects

Diego Hernández — Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The historic Leegkerk church, a national monument, dates from the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was originally conceived as a place for contemplation, assembly and refuge on high ground. Leegkerk church is inextricably linked to the locale and to the people of the province of Groningen. The foundations “Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken” and “Bijzondere Locaties Groningen” realized that Leegkerk church merited a new function as a center for appreciation of the environment and their (cultural) history. The foundations saw that the church needed to be integrated into their (super)regional recreational/educational networks. Furthermore it was essential that the church retain its original, “traditional” multifunctional spaces for social, cultural and spiritual activities. The range of facilities and their quality - both technical and ‘emotive’ – necessitated preeminent treatment. The architecture firm awg architecten, from Antwerp, designed a new interior to achieve these ends and to add a new layer to the church’s long and significant history.

La Liberté / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Nico Saieh — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000

“La Liberté”, social housing and office building, has been realized within a constant collaboration between the client, the architect and the City of Groningen.