How can we capture and upcycle the 8.1 million kilo of space waste? How can we design new sustainable fireworks? Are you ready to upgrade the world? Join our team of designers and engineers at Studio Roosegaarde in Rotterdam NL where several new positions are available. Mail your proposal to work@studioroosegaarde.net

Our new Holocaust monument LEVENSLICHT is a collective experience of light and commemoration throughout the Netherlands. LEVENSLICHT will open January 16 in Rotterdam and travel to 170 municipalities with a Holocaust history in the Netherlands.

WATERLICHT wins Urban Design & Architecture Design Award 2019 for Lighting Design. WATERLICHT is the dream landscape about the power and poetry of water.

At the conference hall of the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Daan Roosegaarde is awarded with the Ethics Ethical Award for his SMOG FREE PROJECT against the massive air pollution.

Proud of our Mexican students and professor Daan Roosegaarde at UDEM University.

Scribit, the world’s first write&erase robot has teamed up with artist Daan Roosegaarde’s SPACE WASTE LAB to draw a map of orbital space waste trajectories on people’s walls. How can we capture and upcycle the million kilos of space waste? Available now at Scribit Originals.

The International Architecture Awards honors the best and most significant new buildings by the world’s leading architects organised by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. This year our GATES OF LIGHT was awarded for its poetic excellence in transportation architecture.

Daan Roosegaarde wins 40 Under 40 Award as one of the Best Emerging Young Architects & Designers in Europe. Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President of The Chicago Athenaeum states: “These are some of the brightest and most progressive architects and designers ever selected in this program over the years".

Studio Roosegaarde is growing and therefore looking for a Designer and a Project Manager who have experience to implement creative ideas into practice. Apply now: work@studioroosegaarde.net.

Come and visit the world's first Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, and enjoy clean air. Open for all at Vierhavensstraat 52.

Honoured to win the Shenzhen Global Design Award for Sustainable Development, a true Oscar in the design field. 谢谢你.

Daan Roosegaarde just received the World OMOSIROI Award in Japan for our Space Waste Lab.

Our Smog Free Project wins the Design That Educates Award which investigates the educational potential of architecture and design.

Welcome at our open house at Studio Roosegaarde on 9 and 10 Februari 11.00-19.00 during Art Rotterdam.

Our Space Waste Lab experts and more than 2000 students work with Daan Roosegaarde on future solutions for space waste.

Windvogel by Studio Roosegaarde wins the Design Project of the Year. The light-emitting, energy-generating kites also topped the lighting design category at Tate Modern London. The design master jury described the project as "an innovative, emotional and functional design response to the universal dilemma of sustainability, and energy usage in particular". Read more at Dezeen.

Proud to receive the award in Beijing for Smog Free Project.

Studio Roosegaarde is seeking a public relations & business developer to join our growing team in Rotterdam. Read more at Dezeen jobs and e-mail us at work@studioroosegaarde.net.

Roosegaarde receives the sustainability ribbon from the Dutch government as leader in sustainability, celebrating his achievements in creating large scale awareness on climate change. Read more here.

Windvogel, our energy harvesting kite, has been nominated from more than 3,500 entries for the Dezeen Awards in the category Lighting Design.

Come and follow Studio Roosegaarde on Instagram for live project news, innovations and inspirations.

Daan Roosegaarde is the new ambassador of the Science Weekend in the Netherlands, together with astronaut André Kuipers and scientist Eveline Crone.

We are proud to have received the international LIT Award for Lighting Designer of the Year.

Our permanent sustainable gateway on the Afsluitdijk GATES OF LIGHT, receives the prominent Platinum A’Design Award.

Our travelling LOTUS DOME folds open according to the heat of visitors hands, revealing light. More info on the award here.

Scientific study of Professor Blocken and the Eindhoven University of Technology shows the PM10 reduction by the Smog Free Tower (in percentage and at 1.75 m height). The study undertaken in China confirms the reduction of pollution around the Smog Free Tower. Read press release here.

Have you always wanted to peak into our Dream Factory? Our studio will be open to the public as part of Art Rotterdam Week on 9 February 17.00 - 21.00, 10 and 11 February 11.00 - 19.00.

Daan Roosegaarde is now visiting Professor for Environmental Design at Tongji University, here with his students in Shanghai, China.

Daan Roosegaarde is in the jury for Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018 and reflects on the nominees here. Photoshoot at Gates of Light, wearing Alexander McQueen, winner of the Best Men’s Fashion Collection Award.

“Space debris is the smog of the universe” – Daan Roosegaarde. Stay tuned for new space adventures in the New Year.

Smog Free Project receives Grand Award for Sustainability and Gold Award in Design for Asia Awards in Hong Kong.

Welcome to our new website www.studioroosegaarde.net filled with projects, stories and peek inside our studio.

After the successful launch of the Smog Free Tower in Beijing we are now collecting smog particles from the urban skies. With each Smog Free Ring you donate a 1000 m3 of clean air. A perfect gift for your loved one. The limited edition of the new Smog Free Ring is now available via Hanne at mail@studioroosegaarde.net.

Ordos Conference and D&AD Impact recognize Smog Free Project as world-changing design with these new awards.

Studio Roosegaarde opens the Dream Factory on September 2nd as part of the FAB city Rotterdam program.

Roosegaarde announces at the World Economic Forum a partnership with ofo, the largest Chinese bike sharing programme, and Tezign, a leading Chinese design platform, to develop the Smog Free Bicycle in China. Press Release.

Smog Free Project received a Notable honor in the Design for Social Impact category in the 2017 Core77 Design Awards. The Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.

Introducing our new Smog Free Bicycle; sucking up polluted air, cleaning it, and releasing the clean air so you can cycle and not be polluted.

Daan Roosegaarde checks the 60 floodgates which are being renovated and designed as a new cinematic entrance of the 32 kilometer Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands, and will open in November 2017. Full interview in the Leeuwarden Courant.