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.
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.
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.