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Fire Station Dordrecht / René van Zuuk Architekten

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Together with the GHOR and ROC on the Learning Park in Dordrecht, a plot was assigned for a second fire station. This 'Multi functional aid station' lies on the edge of an educational district. A triangular plot was assigned to the fire station, where the front where the front line should form a zigzag border edge. The urban plan also states that the firestation should be a minimum of 12 meters in height to act as a noise barrier between the school it backs on to and the N3 road opposite.

Roosendaal Pavillion / René van Zuuk Architekten

Nico Saieh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In 2001 the city of Roosendaal (a provincial town in the southwest of the Netherlands) decided to ban cars from the New Market in the centre of town by building a huge two storey underground parking. In order to create a new public square the city of Roosendaal asked the urban design office Quadrat to make a proposition. In their scheme they proposed to pave the square with red and brown brick, plant 15 trees, make three exits for the underground parking and as the most visible and important element they proposed a restaurant and coffee pavilion in the form of an oval.

Zilverparkkade D / René van Zuuk Architekten

Nico Saieh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The project derives its romantic name (Silver Park Quay) from its location: the office cluster on the Zilverparkkade in Lelystad. West 8 designed the urban plan for the area in conformity with the current trend for condensed city-centres. With an idyllic wink to the 17th century Dutch canal-houses the offices are lined up shoulder to shoulder on narrow plots. In such a compact row with a strict layout the only elements to create a discriminating identity are the facades.

Spikvoorde II / René van Zuuk Architekten

Nico Saieh — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Spikvoorde is a part of "De Vijfhoek" (The Pentagon), a new neighborhood in the city of Deventer in The Netherlands.

Arcam / René van Zuuk Architekten

Nico Saieh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The ARchitecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute. In the vicinity of Renzo Piano's New Metropolis was a small pavilion also designed by him that was going to be demolished. The columns and some of the floors needed to be integrated in the new design.

Block 16 / René van Zuuk Architekten

Nico Saieh — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Block 16 is part of the master plan designed by OMA for a new prestigious city centre in Almere. The autonomous expressive block reacts on two conditions: the billowing end marks as a kind of gatekeeper the harbour entrance. At the other end the movement is smoothened and the building fits in with the right-angled grid of the adjacent glass high-rise housing blocks. The block is sited on a basement car park (design OMA) serving as a pedestal. The elevated deck level is half occupied by the common entrance and the storerooms. The other part is a gym which continues on the parking level below where it ends in the fitness-café, an autonomous pavilion.

Project X / René van Zuuk Architekten

Nico Saieh — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Behind the somewhat mysterious name ‘Project X', hides the design of René van Zuuk and his family's own residence. The villa with a small office space is located right next to the architect's former residence Psyche in Almere's The Fantasy district, an area for experimental housing. Because the old house serves as his architect's office since 2004, it occurred that the two plots could be consolidated into one garden. The garden area is optimized by leaving only the width of a parking space between Project X and its neighbouring house.