The Whale Amsterdam: Urban Housing in Holland

The Whale Amsterdam: Urban Housing in Holland

Borneo-Sporenburg, a former harbour area along the shores of the IJ near Amsterdam’s inner city is intended to resemble in its density the Jordaan, a lively Amsterdam inner city quarter. The developers, however, requested a suburban programme from the municipality.

Montclair Condominium Building, Miami homes

Montclair Condominium Building, Miami

Montclair Miami exists at the intersection of civic, commercial, and residential activity: it emerged from a process of contextual sampling confined within the restrictions of an exaggerated historic preservation agenda and municipal zoning constraints.

Miami Beach Condo: ilonabay Condominium

Miami Beach Condo: ilonabay Condominium Florida

Ilonabay Condominium Miami. Participating as an amplifier and filter of its life-urban context, the building simultaneously expresses multiple personalities through dynamic manipulations of scale, and massing

cube Miami – Florida Condominium Building

Rising 22 stories over the design district in Miami, Florida – Cube promotes its occupants to design their own domain with the possibility of connecting multiple cube modules vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.

Susenbergstrasse apartments, Switzerland Building

The articulation of the building mass into three volumes takes place within the context of the small-scale, “fine-grained” housing structure in the neighbourhood near and far. In contrast to the solitary houses and villas on the Zurichberg, the building volumes react to each other by means of their proportions and with respect to their openings.

Zaandam Housing, Dutch Apartment Building

Zaandam Housing, Netherlands apartment building

The housing block with 79 apartments in Zaandam nestles itself into its surroundings like a snake into its basket. The block contains rental apartments for the free and social housing sector as well as 14 service apartments and collective facilities for young handicapped people.

Peabody Trust Housing, Silvertown Homes

In December 2002, we won a design competition organised by the Peabody Trust. It was called Fresh Ideas for Low Cost Housing. The site was in Silvertown in East London, between Royal Victoria Dock and the River Thames.