The Amsterdam Historical Museum has commissioned a firm of architects to design the prostitute's working accommodation of the future. The exhibition is timed to accompany the installation currently showing at the museum: Hoerengracht [Whores' Canal] by Edward and Nancy Kienholz, a recreation of a street in Amsterdam's Red Light district.

The architects have come up with a futuristic take on the rooms in which prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light district work, with the famous 'shop windows' onto the street and red lights over the doorway. In the new design, the red light remains, but everything else is different.

The architects' firm Concrete concluded that the traditional prostitutes' rooms are plain, drab and anything but romantic. In designing the room of the future, the architects consulted both prostitutes and clients, and carefully considered the prostitute's comfort and well-being.

The room they have come up with is not square but round, echoing the curves of the female form. The prostitute no longer has to draw curtains across the window when she has a client or needs a break: a sliding door separates the window from the room where it all happens. And the door is fitted with mirrors, so passing prospective clients look in at their own reflections - confrontational, but interesting, say the architects.

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