Young dutch talent

19-Jul-2017 The Melkwegbridge (the Netherlands) crosses the Noordhollandsch Kanaal and connects the historic centre of Purmerend with the growing Weidevenne district in the south-west. The bridge is the first stage in a masterplan for the canal and its periphery. “The aim of the design team was to create a new area with a specific identity, which could work as a connector between the old and the new centre.” The most striking part of the bridge, designed by NEXT architects, is a massive arch which reaches a height of 12m above water level and stands in a continuous line with the Melkweg-road, thus offering an incredible view over the city. The high lookout gives pedestrians the opportunity to take a step back from their daily envir... More

In a dune nature reserve bordering the second maasvlakte land reclamation project rises a new restaurant: ‘Aan Zee´ It is a new type of restaurant. It is autarkic in many ways. It uses sun, wind, wood fire, natural convection and the earth itself as sources for energy, heating, cooling, ventilation, water purification and waste water management. The cook works with a wood burn stove only, and uses ingredients from local farmers and fishermen. The personnel is dressed in natural fibre clothing, the furniture and tableware are made from recycled/renewable products. The building itself can be fully dismantled and is re-usable both as a building as on a level of materials. The design project included landscaping, building, installations, interi... More

For Kukje Gallery in Seoul, SO — IL has developed a master plan of the gallery’s “art campus” in the historic urban fabric of Sogyeok-dong, a lowrise area in the northern part of Seoul. Small alleyways and courtyard houses characterize this neighborhood, which is currently being infiltrated by newly constructed galleries, boutiques and coffee shops. One of the newly planned buildings within the master plan is a gallery. The structure is a single-story, clear-span art space. The ground floor will be used for large installations, performances and other functions, while the two sublevel floors house a sales room, a lecture space and storage areas. Circulation is pushed out to the edge of the building to maintain the pur... More

In the centre of the old city, a hidden pattern of secret alleyways has been partially restored. A new house and atelier designed by Angie Abbink (Abbink X Co architecture) is squeezed between two alleys, the Blue Sheet alley and the Black Sheet Alley. This is one of the few new developments in the historically charged Blue Sheet Block where monuments and restoration take precedence. It is a neighborhood rich in contrasts and culture, a block with a squatter’s history and surprising spatial effects. Nestled within the walls of the urban block, this special spot ‘’between the sheets’’ is in a world of its own, where a glimpse of the church tower and the sound of birdsong becomes one’s only contact with the rest of the city. It is a ‘backs... More

Located in the green and being an integral part of the new masterplan for the citypark, the Park Stadium is a large arena for 20.000 spectators tucked in the landscape. The arena is strategically located near the perimeter road on the northeast end of the site, easily accessible both by car and public transport. Visible as one of the park main attractions, the Stadium is equally an architectural and a landscape project. The artificial hill, which is at the same time the roof of the stadium, is constructed of simple and inexpensive system of roof trusses. Over the arena, the trusses carry strips of soil which are covered with different types of green. The southwest of the arena is open to a central public plaza, creating a stage for people t... More

WHO ARE THE INITIATORS OF THE CANAL HOUSE? DUS architects is initator of the Northern canal belt and the new 3D canal house and the KamerMaker, The Worlds’ first portable large-scale 3D printer. The Amsterdam architecture office is known for its temporary architecture, in combination with the building of large social housing projects. The office has won several prizes and awards, amongst which the Amsterdam Award for the Arts 2011, and is co-developer of the Open Coop, a multidisciplinary do-tank at the Tolhuistuin in North Amsterdam. DUS makes a case for the canal house because it touches upon several societal themes: Developing and giving acces to 3D print-knowledge and new dwelling types, at the heart of the city. The Nortern canal be... More

In 2009, the HAKA building in the Merwe Vierhavens of Rotterdam was designated as a campus for clean-tech activity, a ‘Living Lab’ for companies, institutions and authorities in the field of water and energy innovation. Doepel Strijkers Architects was asked to develop a concept for the ground floor that illustrates how the strategy of closing material cycles on a city scale can be translated in the interior of a building. The ambition was to go further than just reducing the CO2 footprint through the reuse of materials. An alternative development was set in place by introducing the social component. A team of ex-convicts in a reintegration program was used for the making of the objects. In so doing, the project is more than just an exam... More

The Dutch design firm FABRIC (Amsterdam) has built a pavilion in the Kongens Have (ed. King's Garden) in Copenhagen. The design is named ‘Trylletromler’, the Danish word for zoetrope. This 19th century device activates an impression of movement within a still image. The pavilion is a result of international design competition issued by the Danish AkademiskArkitektforening early this year, which was won by FABRIC. The Renaissance garden design of Rosenborg Castle is the oldest known example of garden design in Denmark. The design draws heavily on principles of Euclidean geometry. This language of absolute space was long regarded as the construction principle of the world. The architecture, urbanism and landscape design that were derived f... More

For the urban garden festival Bilbao Jardín about 30 proposals for a temporary garden of 80m2 within the urban fabric of of Bilbao were chosen. The gardens were allocated a spot in the city after their selection by the organizing committee. This meant that the designers had no pre-knowledge about the exact context of their design. In response to the fact that the garden had to be conceptualized without using a specific situation as a base, Cacticity challenges the idea of the garden by introducing it into the context of art. In this case, the garden is an autonomous object, open to interpretation with a provocative and contemplative power demanding an emotional response from the viewer. More than 1000 cacti ranging in height from 10 c... More

The Vondelpark is one of the most beloved and well-visited parks in Holland, counting up to ten million visitors per year to its location in central Amsterdam. Since 1996, the park is also listed as a Dutch national heritage site. Originally built on peat, the Vondelpark has gradually been sinking since its inauguration in 1877, and is now lying two meters lower than its surroundings. Together with a new drainage system and special foundations for the trees, the municipality has recently restored much of the original layout of the park, designed in a romantic English landscape style by father and son Zocher. The final step in the renovation program is the replacement of the park furniture, consisting of litter bins, information boards, name... More

Tilburg University has extended its campus with the Faculty Club, a multipurpose pavilion for the academic staff and their guests. Shift architecture urbanism took the initiative to reanimate the quintessential quality of the Tilburg campus: strong solitary buildings in the green. The monumental modernism of Jos Bedaux served as a frame of reference. Bedaux designed the first - still the best - buildings for the university in the sixties. By creating a strong formal relation between the existing university buildings and the new Faculty Club, an ensemble of omni-directional solitaires is created. This enables one to recognize the Faculty Club as part of the university, despite its peripheral forest location and exclusive program. The F... More

Over Het IJ Festival 2012 opened in a temporary shipping container city designed by O+A at the NDSM shipyard in North Amsterdam. The festival for site-specific theatre performances have been organised at the NDSM shipyard for over two decades. Theatrical artists, both young and experienced, are challenged to employ and investigate the disused shipyard for unique and context-specific performances. In the fall of 2011, artistic director Lode van Piggelen asked O+A to collaborate on the 20th anniversary edition of the festival. The brief was simple: use the festival's literal building block - the shipping container - to create the beating heart of the event. Besides the central hospitality space, the containers offer context for the thea... More

For the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010, curator RAAAF was invited by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) to make a statement about the potential of landscape architecture to contribute to resolving the complex challenges that our society faces today. These challenges call for innovation; for a culture centered on design skills and cooperation between scientists and creative pioneers. Our installation ‘Vacant NL’ calls upon the Dutch government to make use of the enormous potential of inspiring, unoccupied buildings from the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries for innovation within the creative knowledge economy. RAAAF composed a multidisciplinary team to design the installation, consisting of people with an interest in... More

Powerhouse Company , in close collaboration with RAU , recently completed Villa L.
Designed to fulfil the desires and needs of a young family, Villa L is set in the woods of central Netherlands, fully oriented towards the sun and the views on the garden.
Villa L is a spatially diverse residence where every floor has its own strong identity, creating a broad spatial spectrum within a unified whole. A young family with three children asked Powerhouse Company and RAU to design a house that would fulfill their dreams: a paradox of a house that is simple yet surprising, open yet specific, minimal yet luxurious.
Powerhouse Company, responsible for the design, resolved these contradictions with a house based on a radical differentiation of spat... More