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Het Epos School / SeARCH

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Learning, Elementary & Middle school
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Architects: SeARCH
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2325 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alucobond, Lunawood, Archicad, de Haan Westerhof
  • Professionals: Huisman groep, SeARCH

On Recycled Architecture: 12 Proposals to Promote Adaptive Reuse

When reflecting on recycling, sustainability, measures to take, and innovative technological solutions, one cannot help but think that there are also familiar approaches that should be taken into consideration. In fact, when examining the impact of the built environment on the climate, one notes that in many countries, 80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 have already been built. The most effective form of sustainability may, therefore, be saving energy by eliminating or minimizing new constructions, and by avoiding the demolition of existing structures.

That is what adaptive reuse stands for: instilling a new purpose on an existing “leftover building.” Nowadays, the refashioning process is becoming essential because of numerous issues related to the climate emergency, plot and construction costs, a saturation of land, and a change in living trends.

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MicroCity Het Platform / VenhoevenCS

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Mixed Use Architecture, Apartments, Office buildings
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Utrecht, The Netherlands

Three Generation House / BETA office for architecture and the city

Three Generation House / BETA office for architecture and the city - Coliving, Garden, Facade, Balcony
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Residential, Coliving
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Visitor Center Unesco World Heritage Site Kinderdijk / M& DB Architecten

Visitor Center Unesco World Heritage Site Kinderdijk / M& DB Architecten - More Images+ 16

visitor center
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Kinderdijk, The Netherlands
  • Architects: M& DB Architecten
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1180 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AutoDesk, Alucobond, Metaglas
  • Professionals: Arup

Spotlight: Rem Koolhaas

With the extensive list of acclaimed alumni of his firm, OMA, it is not a stretch to call Rem Koolhaas (born 17 November 1944) the godfather of contemporary architecture. Equal parts theorist and designer, over his 40-year career Koolhaas has revolutionized the way architects look at program and interaction of space, and today continues to design buildings that push the capabilities of architecture to new places.

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Villa Vught / Mecanoo

Villa Vught / Mecanoo - More Images+ 35

Houses
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Vught, The Netherlands
  • Architects: Mecanoo
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  683 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  JUNG, Duravit, Bealmortex, Derix, Elshof, +2

WERK12 / MVRDV + N-V-O Architekten

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Mixed Use Architecture
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Munich, Germany
  • Architects: MVRDV, N-V-O Architekten
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  7700 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Jansen
  • Professionals: Wolf+, Teuber + Viel

Triodos Bank / RAU

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Bank
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Driebergen-Rijsenburg, The Netherlands

World’s First Publicly Accessible Art Depot by MVRDV Tops Out in Rotterdam

The world's first publicly accessible art depot by MVRDV has topped out in Rotterdam. Called Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the new archive building was celebrated with a ceremony by the Stichting Collectiegebouw consortium, which comprises the museum, the municipality of Rotterdam, and Stichting De Verre Bergen. The depot will host the museum’s archive of 151,000 artworks and will be fully accessible to the public.

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House M&M / NEXT architects + Claudia Linders

House M&M / NEXT architects + Claudia Linders - More Images+ 17

Houses, Renovation
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Architects: Claudia Linders, NEXT architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  269 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alcoa, Quooker, Viroc, Vola

Holland Boulevard and Rijksmuseum Schiphol / NEXT architects

Holland Boulevard and Rijksmuseum Schiphol / NEXT architects - More Images+ 5

Hospitality Architecture
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Schiphol, The Netherlands

Roskilde Festival Folk High School / MVRDV + Cobe

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High School
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Roskilde, Denmark

The Week in Architecture: Blue Monday and the Aspirations of a New Year

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For those in the northern hemisphere, the last full week in January last week kicks off with Blue Monday - the day claimed to be the most depressing of the year. Weather is bleak, sunsets are early, resolutions are broken, and there’s only the vaguest glimpse of a holiday on the horizon. It’s perhaps this miserable context that is making the field seem extra productive, with a spate of new projects, toppings out and, completions announced this week.

The week of 21 January 2019 in review, after the break: 

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Why Reusing Buildings Should - and Must - be the Next Big Thing

Sustainability awards and standards touted by professional architecture organizations often stop at opening day, failing to take into account the day-to-day energy use of a building. With the current format unlikely to change, how can we rethink the way what sustainability means in architecture today? The first step might be to stop rewarding purpose-built architecture, and look instead to the buildings we already have. This article was originally published on CommonEdge as"Why Reusing Buildings Should be the Next Big Thing."

At the inaugural Rio Conference on the Global Environment in 1992, three facts became abundantly clear: the earth was indeed warming; fossil fuels were no longer a viable source of energy; the built environment would have to adapt to this new reality. That year I published an essay in the Journal of Architectural Education called “Architecture for a Contingent Environment” suggesting that architects join with both naturalists and preservationists to confront this situation.