New Dutch architecture projects with current Netherlands building news and good architectural images, plus contemporary Dutch architect studio background. Holland building news from across this North European country.
A key new structure is the Stationspostgebouw Den Haag by KCAP and Kraaijvanger Architects. The designers transformed the former postal sorting centre next to the Hollands Spoor train station in The Hague.
We post details of Villa BW in Schoorl by esigned Mecanoo architecten.
This Dutch property is sited where the rolling dune landscape flows into the lower-lying polder terrain of the hinterland.
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.
Almere Building Photos. This Dutch city on reclaimed land dates from 1976. It is located roughly midway between Amsterdam and Utrecht.
Steel Screen, Emmen, Design: möhn bouman architects. The project is situated in a former rural town that grew over the last decades into a medium-sized regional city. As a result of this process large parts of the city are transforming gradually towards a more urban character.
KCAP Architects&Planners elaborated the urban plan for the development. Referring to the municipality of Oss, this plan offers the best solution for a city campus with park, educational buildings, sports facilities and education related businesses and homes.
The new Inntel hotel in Zaandam is without a shadow of a doubt already the main eye-stopper in the revamped town centre and a building that has set many tongues wagging in the Netherlands.
Blok Kats van Veen realised this triangular shaped villa in big contrast to the traditional housing around it. ThisDutch house is along the edge of the Homeruskwartier neighbourhood, facing the Almere forest stroke.
Park Supermarket is a spatial development model for a Landscape Supermarket situated in the Metropolitan parks of the Randstad.
SoundGarden project, designed together with MAT Studio, for the anniversary edition of Europan 10 competition, won a special mention award. This innovative study deals with the development of new or redevelopment of existing housing in sound-polluted areas.
Baugespann Wijnhaven Concept: Flying Tower in Dordrecht, Netherlands – design by morePlatz architects – visualizes future urban developments in scale 1:1 by an inflated balloon-structure.
Copper canopy. Above the front door of a house with straw roof a copper canopy was designed. The canopy uses the same curvature as its larger brother, the straw roof.
In 2001 the city of Roosendaal (a provincial town in the southwest of the Netherlands) decided to ban cars from the New Market in the centre of town by building a huge two storey underground parking.
Located on the green campus of Wageningen University and Research Centre, the present RIKILT complex consists of a highly outmoded office building from the 1950s and a laboratory building with several annexes dating from the end of the 1970s
Situated on the valuable and fragile south-west corner of Park Presikhaaf, Arnhem, the new campus complex for Arentheem College forms a unity with the green landscape.
The Hotel and Sport School Zenden is located within three monumental town houses near the river Maas in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
The High Voltage Pylon Wintrack, designed by Dutch architectural practice Zwarts & Jansma Architects, is minimalist in every sense of the word.
Imposed site challenges are absorbed through the structure which not only acts as an iconic visual reference, but connects the upper level dike and main road with the lower landscape.
FiftyTwoDegrees combines technology, science and culture in a unique environment that invites encounters and collaboration. It was designed on the basis of a humane and sustainable view on the location, architecture, materialisation and use, but also on management and exploitation.