The Groningen office of the firm De Zwarte Hond was commissioned to design a central building that would serve as a social space for Meerstad, an up-and-coming developing residential zone that falls under the jurisdiction of the northern Dutch city.
Built with Wachenzeller Dolomite – very similar to the stone of the church and the town hall –, the facades are interspersed with immense surfaces of optimized triple glazing that keep temperature constant inside the building and make it energy effic
Groningen has been trying for years to ‘intensify’ its urban fabric, avoiding suburbanization, protecting rural areas and promoting the quality of the public spaces in the city. This building complex is an example of this effort, a development which
The terrains of an old timber factory in the city of Groningen are becoming an important area of growth. One of the several interventions under way there is the De Linie plan, a scheme for the construction of single-family dwellings for which sixteen
Hace más de diez años, un equipo formado por un arquitecto canadiense, otro neozelandés y dos ingleses resultó ganador de uno de los emplazamientos holandeses de Europan 3: una antigua zona industrial de más de 14 hectáreas conocida como CiBoGa (de C
The storey at the point of the arrow and the artifice of the bands on the glazed southern facade make the tower appear slimmer. The structural walls are faced with metal sheets painted to camouflage their presence in the park...
