Almere Library, Meyer & Van Schooten Building

Almere Library Building, Holland, Architects, Stadthuisplein Design, Dutch Project Images

Almere Library Architecture

Building Development in The Netherlands, Europe – design by Meyer & Van Schooten

6 Aug 2009

Almere Library Building

Block 3, Stadthuisplein, The Netherlands
Date built: 2002-09
Design: Meyer & Van Schooten

De nieuwe bibliotheek

Located in: City Mall Almere, Flevoland

Public Library; shops; flats

Almere Library Building Almere Public Library Building Almere Public Library Almere Library
photographs © Adrian Welch

The new library

De nieuwe bibliotheek (the new library) is the public library of Almere. Its four branches (in Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten and Almere Poort) serve approximately 195.000 residents, and 32% of Almere’s population have a membership. The newly competed central library, situated on the Stadhuisplein, was opened on the 27th of March 2010.

source: De nieuwe bibliotheek Almere

Almere Public Library Building design by Meyer & Van Schooten Building Development in The Netherlands design by Meyer & Van Schooten Almere Public Library Building in Holland
photographs © Adrian Welch

Address: Stadhuisplein 101, 1315 XC Almere, Netherlands
Phone: +31 36 548 6000

The adjacent block contains a building designed by a respected Swiss architectural office:

Residential and Retail Building
Dates built: 2002-07
Design: Gigon/Guyer, Zurich, Switzerland
Almere Residential and Retail Building
photograph © Adrian Welch
Almere Residential buildings desig by Zurich architects practice led by the Swiss-born architect Annette Gigon and the U.S.A.-born architect Mike Guyer.

Almere Buildings

Dutch Architecture

De Citadel – the main block of buildings, central to the masterplan
Design: Christian de Portzamparc
De Citadel Almere Building
photograph © Adrian Welch
De Citadel Almere

Almere Masterplan
2007
Design: Rem Koolhaas, OMA / Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Almere Masterplan
image courtesy of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Almere Masterplan

Almere department store
2007
Design: Christian de Portzamparc

La Defense Almere : Offices “La Defense”
Almere building
La Defense Almere, 2004, UN Studio

Dutch Architects

Dutch Architecture Developments

Dutch Mountains in Eindhoven Brainport
Design: Studio Marco Vermeulen, BLOC (Dutch Windwheel, CO2 smart grid) and Urban XChange
Dutch Mountains in Eindhoven Brainport
image from architect
Dutch Mountains in Eindhoven Brainport

Dutch Buildings

Netherlands

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