Monument

Lubbers Boer Douma can best be described as a high-end tax boutique. The firm is located in two monumental buildings right next to the Hofvijver in The Hague. This historic setting perfectly complements the firm’s distinguished and high-quality image. Studio Ina Matt was responsible for the interior design, creating a cohesive style across both buildings. The result is a light, elegant and serene working environment: modern and classical at the same time. Sander Besems Sander Besems We advised on the furniture and also took care of the delivery and installation. From workstations to accessories and rugs, every element was carefully selected to align with the overall design concept. Sander Besems   Sander Bese... More

The opening of the new Eurostar UK Terminal at Amsterdam Central Station marks an important step in the development of international rail traffic between London and Amsterdam. This new terminal offers a spacious, sustainable, high-quality, and accessible border crossing in the heart of Amsterdam. Marc Goodwin Architects from ZJA Architects & Engineers and Superimpose Architecture, commissioned by NS Stations, Eurostar and ProRail, have carefully integrated the new terminal into Amsterdam Central Station, a national monument. This 'terminal of the future' defines a new era for cross-border rail traffic, and brings together various time periods, technologies, aesthetics, and efficiency. ZJA Architects & Engineers Brand new... More

De Visfabriek (The Fish Factory) is the restoration and redevelopment of a 1902 fish warehouse, abandoned for more than fifty years. Led by Firm Architects who also acted as investor and developer for the project, it transforms a derelict national monument into a resilient, future-adaptable building while retaining its cultural and industrial character. The design begins from a narrative premise: NORTH × NORTHWEST, a conceptual alignment based on the fisherman’s compass. This directional logic informs the internal cut through the historic structure, the orientation of the new void, and the flow of movement throughout the building. By rooting the intervention in a strong conceptual framework, the architecture reinforces the... More

The renovation of the historic Mining Engineering Building (Mijnbouwkunde) at TU Delft, in the Netherlands, represents a significant step in sustainable office transformation. Designed and engineered by Haskoning, the project has turned a 1912 monumental structure into a Paris Proof workplace — an office that meets the stringent energy targets of the Paris Agreement while preserving its architectural heritage. © Lucas van der Wee Caption   Adaptive reuse and design strategy The central design intervention is the creation of two glass-covered atriums — East and West — that form the heart of the building. Slender glass roofs, supported by steel columns, enclose the former open courtyards, improving spa... More

“Faced with this striking landscape that could have inspired the "wall" of the series "Game of Thrones" and faced with this working class history that created the region with a strong Italian sounding, Karine Herman and Jérôme Sigwalt were inspired by an unheard of context.” © GUILLAUME AMAT CONTEXT Villerupt is a small town in Lorraine, built on the border with Luxembourg on a subsoil that was once full of iron ore. It followed the huge expansion of the exploitation of this resource, growing from 560 inhabitants in 1861 to over 16,000 a century later.Many Italians will come to fill the tens of thousands of jobs needed to extract and process millions of tons of material. Four generations will follow one another unt... More

The process of redeveloping and converting Hoofddorp Fort took a decade. Some 8,100 m2 in size, the Dutch world heritage site has been transformed into an urban park with space for a restaurant as well as cultural and educational activities. Serge Schoemaker Architects tackled the landscape, architecture and interior in an integral manner, fusing past and present into a new entity. MWA Hart Nibbrig Hoofddorp Fort (1904) is one of the few forts along the historical Defence Line of Amsterdam with two floors. Like most of the forts, this defence structure is embedded into the landscape and covered with a layer of earth. The fort consists of a rich labyrinth of spaces: gun positions, rooms, corridors and niches. Walls and vaults of metres... More

One of the last remaining 1930s indoor swimming pools in The Netherlands, the Spaardersbad, is located in Gouda. The pool owes its name (literally translated ‘Saving pool’) to the inhabitants of Gouda who collectively saved money during the crisis period (1933) to realize an indoor swimming pool. It is a unique building, created, preserved, and cherished with enthusiasm and cooperation. As one of the most visited swimming pools in the Netherlands in the last century, this pool retains personal memories of many generations of Gouda inhabitants. The transformation from swimming pool to residential building with six unique loft homes, is based on the beauty of the original design and the rich history of the building. The swimming p... More

Visible light seemed to be pure, colourless and indivisible, but after the 17th century when Isaac Newton dissembled it through a prism, we have discovered that it is made by an infinite array of beautiful colors. So, is the Humankind! Every person is unique, every individual is a single shade in the full display of color that we call humanity. Is it possible to create an installation that celebrates people uniqueness while laying the foundation for an inclusive society of tomorrow? New York City will be the stage of a massive urban-land-art event for which the scenography is already set in place. SPECTRUM, requires that each screen and billboard of Time Square displays a single monochrome color, creating an ever-changing composition, s... More

The building by František Lýdie Gahura, opened one year after the death of Tomáš Baťa, is the most valuable monument of the Zlín constructivism and the highlight of the so-called “Baťa architecture” phenomenon. At the first glance the idea for the monument is simple: an empty prism placed on a visible spot above the town, on the central axis of the ascending park space, made up of several modules of the Zlín 6.15 x 6.15 m frame and clad only with cathedral glass. Inside, only the ill-fated Junkers F 13 aircraft in which Tomáš Baťa died in 1932. Gahura reduced the monument to three basic materials of Zlín architecture – concrete, steel and glass that were s... More

The Ocean House, popularly also called the Stokvis building, was a “modern business palace” with innovations such as car passages, a covered courtyard, and a canteen with a roof terrace. Due to an eventful history, many different time layers are visible in the building. With the transformation into a residential loft building with modern topping, Mei adds a new time layer with respect for the existing building, while remaining the national monumental parts – such as the entrance, the Gothic room, Tudor room, and the canteen on the roof.   History The Stokvis building was once the headquarters of Europe’s largest trading company. The Rotterdam Stokvis en Zonen, founded in 1849 by a Jewish family, traded in all... More

About the exhibitionThe 100th anniversary of Czechoslovak Republic was used as an opportunity to look into the Memory of the Nation. We chose periods and events which had shaped the modern history of this nation. We work with subjective memories.Due to the contemporary disturbances of the principle of democracy and respect to human rights, we think it necessary to remind ourselves that the civil freedom is nothing that comes as a matter of course. This is the reason why we have decided to focus our exposition on the totality in Czechoslovakia in 1939 to 1989 and on the fight against this totality. The former monument of the dictator J. V. Stalin is a suitable venue for this. It symbolises humiliation and servitude at the time of communism a... More

The current trend in The Netherlands is to recycle existing buildings rather than to replace them. In the old city of Leiden Mirck Architecture has designed such a rejuvenation for a 15th century landmark canal house. In the 1960s the building’s interior was effectively destroyed, which sad event opened interesting perspectives for the building’s redevelopment. The building is now used as an Annex by the International Tax Center Leiden, a postgraduate studies that is housed in the neighboring mansion at Rapenburg 65.The Rapenburg 63 Annex houses a fully equipped modern lecture theatre with 74 seats, a student lounge, and student studios along with a joint living room annex kitchen that overlooks the splendid garden at the backside of the bu... More

Borovitskaya Square newly built in the very heart of Moscow is important as part of Moscow government program for the improvement of the capital city of Russia. The development of public spaces around the Kremlin - “Kremlin Ring” - was presented to UNESCO and includes Borovitskaya Square and other significant improvements - such as development of Zaradye Park.The project of improvement of Borovitskaya Square was chosen in the result of the architectural competition held with the support of Moscow City Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning.The monument to Prince Vladimir was approved long before. There was also the initial project of Borovitsky Square in declamatory archaic style with using granite and the lack of greenery.... More

In 2019, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra moved into a former arts and crafts school for girls on Gabriël Metsustraat in Amsterdam, fulfilling their long-held aspiration to have a home base for staff and musicians in which to work and rehearse. Built in 1908, the municipal monument designed by the architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage was not big enough to house the desired program. The complexity of this renovation project lay largely in reconciling various spatial needs, very high acoustic and technical requirements, and the wishes of both the municipal conservation department and the surrounding residents. This project was a community effort in other ways, too. Although the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra made a significant financial inve... More