© Luuk Kramer

Architects: Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Design team: Marlies Rohmer, Floris Hund (deputy architect), Kirsten Gabriëls (assistant designer/coordinator), Gieneke Pieterse (project coordinator), Ido de Boer, Charles Hueber, Marie Louise Greger
Project area: 6,260 sqm
Project year: 2004 – 2010
Photographs: Luuk Kramer, Marlies Rohmer

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© Wiel Arets Architects

Architects: Wiel Arets Architects
Location: Maastricht, the Netherlands
Design team: Satoru Umehara, Harold Herman, Daniel Meier, Dennis Villanueva, Alex Kunnen, Francois Steul
Project area: 130 sqm
Project year: 2005 – 2010
Photographs: Wiel Arets Architects

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© Norbert van Onna

Architects: UArchitects – Emile van Vugt and Misak Terzibasiyan
Location: Overloon, The Netherlands
Client: Government Building Agency
Management of Construction: RU Bouwadvies – Den Bosch
Structural engineer: Sigma engineering
Advisor installations: Government Building Agency
Company of construction: Bam Utiliteitsbouw – Eindhoven
Photographs: Norbert van Onna

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© Rene de Wit

Architects: Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
Design team: Marlies Rohmer and Floris Hund; with Ronald Hageman, Gieneke Pieterse, Rikjan Scholten, Klaas Nienhuis and
Client: Proper-Stok Woningen B.V.
Project area: 9,312 sqm
Project year: 2004 – 2010
Photographs: Rob de Jong, Marcel van der Burg, René de Wit

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© Matthijs van Roon Amsterdam

Architects: Hofman Dujardin Architects
Location: Geldrop, The Netherlands
Technical engineering: Bouwtechnisch Adviesburo Ad Wouters Mierlo
Contractor: KSB Snoeijen Bouw
Power supply: Mebro Elektrotechniek Nuenen
Climate control: Installatiebedrijf Snijders Best
Project area: 415 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Matthijs van Roon Amsterdam

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© Marcel van der Burg

Architects: Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Design team: Marlies Rohmer and Floris Hund, Michiel van Pelt, Ronald Hageman, Marc de Vries, Charles Hueber, Martin Koster
Client: Ontwikkelingscombinatie Waterbuurt West and Woningstichting Eigen Haard
Project area: 10,652 sqm
Project year: 2001-2011
Photographs: Marcel van der Burg, Luuk, Kramer, Roos Aldershoff

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© Christian Ritchers

One of the most prominent aspects of a design, if not the most important, is the consideration of the context and environment in which the proposed design will be found. In the case of the Dutch House by Rem Koolhaas, the unique and very challenging environmental conditions and topography of the site led to a design with interesting conditions that respond to these conditions.

More on the Dutch House in The Netherlands after the break.

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The stationsquare offers room for public events

The city of Leidschendam-Voorburg [the Netherlands] has recently approved the design for a extensive transformation of the Station area. The urban plan, designed by POSAD spatial strategies, connects the different scales that are present, such as the historical center of Voorburg and the adjacent Binckhorst business park. The array of functions of the transport hub – railway, tram, bicycle and bus connections – will profit from this strategic transformation. Images of the project in addition to a description from the architects can be found after the jump.
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© COEN!

Architects: COEN! – Coen van Ham
Location: Woerden, the Netherlands
Client: Besturenraad / BKO, Woerden
Project area: 2,200 sqm
Project year: 2010 – 2011
Photographs: COEN!

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© Ruud van der Koelen

Architects: Van der Jeugd Architecten
Location: Enschede, the Netherlands
Project area: 247 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Ruud van der Koelen

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© Flickr User: harry_nl

Completed in 1997, the Educatorium in Utrecht, Netherlands was OMAs and Rem Koolhaas’ first university project.  Part of a larger masterplan for the campus of De Uithof for Utrecht University to create a more westernized version of a college campus, the Educatorium was designed to be the new center of campus, not only geographically but socially as well.

Understood to be the encapsulation of the entire university experience in one building, Koolhaas and his team at OMA conceptualized the Educatorium as a factory for learning in both the traditional formalistic approach as well as the informal student to student exchange.  The Educatorium was designed specifically so that the processes of socialization, learning, and examination would be entangled within one another blurring the boundaries between lounges, classrooms, and corridors such that there is a constant redefinition of what it means to learn in a social environment.

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© Fact Architects

Architects: Fact Architects
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Client: De Principaal
Project area: 12,395 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Fact Architects

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© Luuk Kramer

Architects: Fact Architects – Inge Brouwer, Juul van Gemert, 
Peer Glandorff, 
Jean-Marc Saurer, Ruud Visser
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Structural Engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek, Delft
Installations: Grontmij TM
Climate, acoustics and safety: Peutz
Contractor: Wessels Zeist
Project area: 7,300
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Luuk Kramer

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© CUBE Architecten

Architects: CUBE Architecten & SOLUZ architecten
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project area: 200 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: CUBE Architecten

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© Samuel Ludwig

The large population density of The Netherlands has created an inherent need for housing, giving young Dutch architects like MVRDV the opportunity to design and build large projects in their mainland.

WoZoCo is a prime example of a specific need for housing in the country, providing answers for needs of their time. More on this apartment complex for elderly people by MVRDV after the break.

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© Luuk Kramer

Architects: Knevel Architecten – Gert Jan Knevel, John van de Weg
Location: Rieteiland Oost, IJburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project area: 359 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Luuk Kramer

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© Christian Richters

Architects: BOLLES+WILSON
Location: Helmond, The Netherlands
Project area: 5,630 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2010
Photographs: Christian Richters, BOLLES+WILSON

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© Marcel van der Burg

Architects: Pasel.Kuenzel Architects
Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
Team: R. Pasel, F. Künzel
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Marcel van der Burg

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© Pieter De Ruijter / The Cloud Collective

Sectionhouse is a public outdoor concrete sculpture, a fragment of a house that displays the ways in which daily life is enacted within architecture.  The project is located in the small Dutch rural town of Oisterwijk and was designed by The Cloud Collective, a collaboration of young designers, architects, urban designers, artists and theorists, spread out all over Europe, working for different offices, schools and governments.

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Courtesy of Mecanoo

Last week, the construction of the new academic building for the Amsterdam University College has began. Mecanoo Architecten of Delft designed the faculty for the University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam.

The new Liberal Arts and Science building will be located in Science Park Amsterdam, the international science and research center in the area referred to as Watergraafsmeer, and will be completed in 2012. More images and information after the break. read more »