BEST DESIGN INSPIRATIONS BY BEN BERKEL

Ben Berkel is a Dutch architect, working with the architectural practice UNStudio. With his studio he designed many outstanding and important buildings in many different places of the globe. His interdisciplinary design team develops urban projects, builds bridges and public buildings all over the world, as well as working on the design of products and media.

Ben Berkel received many personal awards and affiliations, such as the Eileen Gray Award (1983); the British Council Fellowship (1986); the Charlotte Köhler Award (1991); Member of Honor of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (1997); the 1822-Kunstpreis 2003 (Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart) (2003); the Charles Jencks Award (2007); and the Honorary Fellowship AIA (2013).

PONTE PARODI in Genoa, Italy

URBAN OASIS in Beach Road, Singapore

CANALETTO in London, England

GALLERIA DEPARTMENT STORE

THE W.I.N.D. HOUSE in North-Holland, Netherlands

FIVE FRANKLIN PLACE in New York, USA

MERCEDES-BENZ MUSEUM in Stuttgart, Germany

ERASMUS BRIDGE in Rotterdam, Netherlands

UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben Berkel and Caroline Bos, is an international architectural design studio specialising in architecture, urban development and infrastructural projects. The name, UNStudio, stands for United Network Studio, referring to the collaborative nature of the practice. In 2009 UNStudio Asia was established, with its first office located in Shanghai, China. UNStudio Shanghai is a full sister of UNStudio and is intricately connected to UNStudio Amsterdam. Initially serving to facilitate the design process for the Raffles City project in Hangzhou, UNStudio Shanghai has expanded into a full-service design office with a multinational team of all-round and specialist architects. In 2014 we opened our third office in Hong Kong.