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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.
Wieringen is very old and was, up to 1930, an island. The design for the Wieringen Passage once again turns the former island of Wieringen into the sole boulder clay island of the Netherlands, with offshore sandbanks providing space for the development of recreational facilities and housing.
Museum Veenhuizen, Holland Building, Dutch Project, Photo, Design, Image Museum Veenhuizen Holland Veenhuizen Development, The Netherlands – design by Atelier Kempe Thill 26 Aug 2009 Museum and Exposition centre Veenhuizen, The Netherlands Design: Atelier Kempe Thill Staging History An ideal city as a penal colony Museum Veenhuizen Veenhuizen was founded at the beginning of the … Read more
Architecture in the sense of a building art hardly plays a role here, for marketing and spatial qualities are regarded as unimportant and superfluous.
The location is unusual – the Dutch town of Almere is not a place that has grown naturally but rather was planned on a drawing board, originating after the war as polder land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer Lake. The Masterplan for the new town centre was developed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
The Urban Entertainment Centre in Almere comprises of 16,000sqm of new buildings containing shopping, pop concert hall, disco, hotel, bicycle park and associated leisure, cafe and restaurant facilities.
Side by Side: located on the border between the city centre and Weerwater lake, two residential towers strike a key note in the urban landscape of Almere centre. To bolster their landdmark character the facades have a deliberately abstract rendering in industrial glass.
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The new building for the City Hall in Grave, designed by Erick van Egeraat, was officially opened this summer. The municipality shares the building with housing corporation Maasland and the regional historic archive of the Province of North Brabant, BHIC.
Maasberg Juvenile detention living, Holland Building, Dutch Project, Photo, News Maasberg Juvenile detention centre, Holland Maasberg Development, The Netherlands – design by UArchitects 17 Jul 2009 Maasberg Juvenile detention living TIME – OUT Unit 5 of “JJI De Hunnerberg, De Maasberg” in Overloon is converted from a prison for adults into an autonomously functioning juvenile … Read more
Almere Vision 2030, Architects, Building, Dutch Masterplan Images, Housing, Stadgenoot, News Almere Vision 2030 : Architecture Contemporary Dutch Residential Development: Holland Masterplan by MVRDV, The Netherlands 1 Jul 2009 City of Almere and MVRDV present Vision 2030 Design: MVRDV, Architects (Rotterdam, July 1st , 2009) Dutch new town Almere plans to grow with 60,000 houses, … Read more
Adri Duivesteijn, city councillor of Almere, Amsterdam Housing Association Stadgenoot and MVRDV met the group of architects commissioned to design each two buildings within the MVRDV masterplan for the Olympiakwartier in new town Almere, Netherlands.
Once an eco system is destroyed, it can’t be regained by an instant, replacement of the individual species. The same is valid for human constructions and social communities.
Building for Bouwkunde Holland: TU Delft Architecture Faculty entry by Monolab: designtriggered by 4 agendas: sustainability, education, urbanism and architecture. Architecture was not our first point of departure.
With every house-building assignment, it is the art to escape the standard plans that are in the top drawers of estate agents and developers in a relaxed manner.
Pijnacker tunnel, Touch of Evil Holland, Dutch Project Photos, Interarea Design Images Touch of Evil: Pijnacker tunnel Holland – Interarea Touch of Evil, Netherlands Railway Art – design by NIO architecten in The Netherlands 9 Apr 2009 Pijnacker tunnel intervention Design: NIO architecten TOUCH OF EVIL Photos by Hans Pattist What happened here? On the … Read more
Until recently the Dutch city centres were the stage for a shopping audience, but the last couple of years shops have been grouping together and moving more and more off-centre to develop themselves into compact shopping islands in the periphery.
At the beginning of the year 2003 a bus station was built on the forecourt of Hoofddorp’s Spaarne Hospital. This facilities block is located in the middle of a square and is a public area in the form of an island that serves as a junction for the local bus service.