MFA Valthermond / KAW Architecten
Architects: KAW architecten en adviseurs
Location: Vrijheidslaan, Valthermond, The Netherlands
Architect In Charge: Sjoerd Betten
Design Team: Katja Heid, Mark Oostmeijer, Beatrice Montesano
Year: 2011
Photographs: Jeroen Musch
Social 01 / VMX Architects + i29 l interior architects
Architects: VMX Architects + i29 l interior architects
Location: Delft, The Netherlands
Photographs: Ronald Tilleman, Courtesy of i29 l interior architects
Vertical Loft / Shift Architecture Urbanism
Architects: Shift Architecture Urbanism
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Design Team: Oana Rades, Harm Timmermans
Photographs: Rene de Wit & Jeroen Musch
Ronald McDonald Family Room / EGM architecten
Architects: EGM architecten
Location: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of EGM architecten
Garden studio in Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer / CC-Studio
Architects: CC-Studio
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: John Lewis Marshall
New building for Deli Shop / BaksvanWengerden Architecten
Architects: BaksvanWengerden Architecten
Location: Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
Architects: Gijs Baks, Jacco van Wengerden
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Brandwijk & van Geel
MVRDV completes Book Mountain and Library Quarter Spijkenisse
Close to the Port of Rotterdam docks, MVRDV has completed the Spijkenisse Book Mountain, a public library in Spijkenisse’s market square. It features a 480 meter route, lined with bookshelves, that wraps around a stacked, pyramidal form as it is showcased through the library’s glass structure. The “mountain of books” illuminates from within and serves as both an advertisement and an invitation to reading. The adjacent Library Quarter consisting of 42 social housing units, parking and public space is also a project by MVRDV. Together, with the Book Mountain, it strives to form an “exemplary eco-neighborhood”.
Continue after the break for the architects’ description.
GouweZone CO2 Free Offices / EGM architecten
Architects: EGM architecten
Location: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of EGM architecten
Gate House / NL Architects
Architects: NL Architects
Location: Arnhem, The Netherlands
Project Architects: Guus Peters and Bart Schoonderbeek (Schipper Bosch)
Design Team: Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse
Team Members: Lorena Valero Miñano, Inés Quinteiro Antolín, Jaewoo Chon
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Jeroen Musch
SH House / BaksvanWengerden Architecten
Architects: BaksvanWengerden Architecten
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project Architects: Gijs Baks, Jacco van Wengerden
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Brandwijk & van Geel
In Progress: Erasmus MC / EGM architecten
Architects: EGM architecten
Location: Dordrecht, Netherlands
Photographs: Courtesy of EGM architecten
Bornego College / HVDN + Studioninedots
Architects: HVDN + Studioninedots
Location: Dominee Kingweg, Heerenveen, The Netherlands
Design Team: Arie van der Neut, Albert Herder, Tom Jonker, Jan Pieter Penders
Photographs: Courtesy of Studioninedots + HVDN
Amsterdam University College / Mecanoo
Architects: Mecanoo
Location: Amsterdam University, The Netherlands
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Christian Richters
Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979
What is the connection between sex, architecture and design? Opening tomorrow, September 29, Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979 explores the role of architecture in the famous men’s magazine Playboy. Colomina, along with the curators of NAiM/Bureau-Europa in Maastricht, The Netherlands, centers the exhibition around the research of Beatriz Colomina, a professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture and founder of their Media and Modernity program, who has been studying the connection for the past three years.
Playboy Architecture, 1953-1979 illustrates how cities, buildings, interiors, furniture and products have always played an important role in the fantasy world of Playboy. Ever since Hugh Hefner launched Playboy in 1952, its erotic spreads have featured the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Buckminster Fuller, Moshe Safdie, and Paolo Soleri. As Colomina’s program argues, “sexual revolution and architectural revolution are inseparable.” The exhibition reveals how Playboy reshaped masculinity with the influence of architecture and design.
De Entree / Arons en Gelauff architecten
Architects: Arons en Gelauff architecten
Location: Alkmaar, The Netherlands
Project Area: 13,000 sqm
Photographs: Luuk Kramer, Courtesy of Arons en Gelauff Architects
100% Terschelling / Studio Elmo Vermijs
Architects: Studio Elmo Vermijs
Location: Island Terschelling, The Netherlands
Design: ElmoVermijs and Arievan Ziel
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Gemma van Linden
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
Louis Kahn retrospective premiers tomorrow in Rotterdam
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) will host the exhibition Louis Kahn, The Power of Architecture from September 8 to January 6, 2012. Louis Kahn is known to be one of the most influential architects of the 20th century and has inspired generations with his masterful use of space, light and material.
Among Kahn’s major works are the Salk Institute (California), the Kimbell Art Museum (Texas), the Indian Institute of Management (India), and the Assembly Buildings for the Bangladeshi Parliament (Bangladesh). He designed these projects in the 1950s and 1960s at a time when the conviction of architects that their mission was to improve society was enormous. Kahn’s influence can be seen in the work of important architects such as Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi, James Stirling, Mario Botta and Tadao Ando.
The exhibition will feature drawings, sketches, photographs, watercolors, film material and scale models by Kahn in an effort to show a broad public how important architecture can be for society. Fine more information on the exhibition here.
National Maritime Museum / Dok Architecten
Architect: Dok Architecten: Liesbeth van der Pol, Jan Jaap Roeten, Sonja Müller, Ellen Wolse, Christina Patz, Mirthe Kooy, Ieke Koning
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Programme: Museum, Library, Restaurant and Retail Facilities
Client: Rijksgebouwendienst, Haarlem
Construction Costs: €28.000.000 miljoen
Dome Design and Construction: Ney & Partners, Brussels (BE): Laurent Ney, Eric Bodarwé, Kenny Verbeeck and others
Start Design: 2005
Completion: 2011
Mediatheek Delft / Dok Architecten
Architecture Firm: Dok Architekten
Architect: Liesbeth van der Pol
Location: centrum-Delft-Vesteplein 100-2611 WG Delft, The Netherlands
Design Team: P. Cannon, M. Hardonk, R. Bos, A. Koch, A. Derksen
Client: Gemeente Delft
Photographer: Arjen Schmitz
