Clearing Almere / Frank Goerge
Architects: Frank Goerge
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Architect In Charge: Frank Goerge, Hamburg
Structural Design : Carola Goerge, Hamburg
Area: 130 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Frank Goerge
Block 3 / ZZDP Architecten
Architects: ZZDP Architecten
Location: Almere Buiten, The Netherlands
Architects In Charge: Joris Deur, Adam Smit
Project Team: Lysann Theiler, Jeroen Nieuwenhuizen, Ramon Gianotten
Roofscape Design: Buro Sant en Co.
Area: 23,300 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of ZZDP Architecten
Almere with MVRDV selected for Floriade 2022!
Today the Nederlandse Tuinbouwraad (NTR) announced the City of Almere, along with it’s MVRDV-designed proposal, as winner of the prestigious world horticultural expo, Floriade 2022. The event takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands and is currently ending in Venlo.
The MVRDV plan for Almere is not a temporary expo site but a lasting green Cité Idéale as an extension to the existing city centre. The waterfront site opposite the city centre will be developed as a vibrant new urban neighborhood and also a giant plant library which will remain beyond the expo.
The ambition is to create a 300% greener exhibition than currently standard, both literally green and sustainable: each program on the site will be combined with plants which will create programmatic surprises, innovation and ecology. At the same time the site will be with a vast program such as a university, hotel, marina, offices and homes more urban than any other Floriade has ever been before, it is an exemplary green city. Continue after the break for more!
Homerus Kwartier / Geusebroek Verheij Architecten
Architects: Geusebroek Verheij Architecten
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Project Architect: Peter Geusebroek
Supporting Architect: Koen Verheij
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Thomas Mayer
Floriade 2022 proposal for Almere / MVRDV
The City of Almere has revealed it’s MVRDV-designed proposal for the Floriade 2022 candidature! Almere is one of four Dutch cities competing to be the next location of the prestigious horticultural Expo, which takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands and is currently open in Venlo.
Rather than creating a temporary expo site, MVRDV has designed a lasting Cité Idéale, which would serve as a green extension to Almere’s city center. Drawing upon research from the radical DIY urbanism plan for Almere Oosterwold and the Almere 2030 master plan, MVRDV has designed an ambitious sustainable city that strives to be a 300% greener exhibition than the current standard.
Continue reading for more on this potential, exemplary green city!
Villa Hendrikx / 70F Architecture
Architects: 70F Architecture
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Year: 2009
Photographs: Luuk Kramer
RUBBERHOUSE / CITYFÖRSTER
Architect: CITYFÖRSTER – architecture + urbanism
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Client: At Kasbergen, Alet Breugom
Project Team: Arne Hansen, Nils Nolting
Text: Arne Hansen, Nils Nolting
Photographs: Arne Hansen, Nils Nolting
Golden Mile / LEVS Architecten
Architects: LEVS Architecten
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Client: Syntrus Achmea Vastgoed
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Allard van der Hoek
AD Classics: Almere House / Benthem Crouwel Architekten
Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architekten
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Project Area: 65 sqm
Project Year: 1984
Photographs: Courtesy of Benthem Crouwel Architekten
Fabric Façade Studio House / CC-Studio, Studio TX and Rob Veening
Architects: CC-Studio, Studio TX and Rob Veening
Location: Almere, the Netherlands
Project Area: 190 sqm
Photographs: John Lewis Marshall
Vision 2030 / MVRDV
With the city of Almere’s growth expected to require thousands of new residences, work places and related facilities, MVRDV was commissioned to collaborate with the city to design a concept structure vision to accommodate such drastic expansion. MVRDV’s Vision 2030 will create a framework to satisfy the growth for about 20 years. ”The structure vision for Almere is more than an urban master plan…” said Adri Duivesteijn, city councilor of Almere, “…it describes how the city can develop in economic, cultural and social terms. The expansion is not a quantitative effort. Even though the number of 60,000 new homes is impressive, the main objective is the addition of new qualities. Almere wants to serve the demand of the Randstad and at the same time needs the chance to develop into an ecologic, social and economically sustainable city”.
More about the city plan after the break.
