The Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal – the canal which links the course of the Rhine with the sea – is the most characteristic feature of the landscape which extends on the outskirts of Utrecht, until recently an agricultural plain that is now gradually being co
A side from its exceptional urban layout – a result of the work of Willem M. Dudok as city architect during many years of the 20th century – the municipal area of Hilversum concentrates numerous radio and television broadcast stations. Searching to b
On the outskirts of Amsterdam, far away from the canals that characterize its quaint urban center, the landscape next to the freeway around the city bears much resemblance to the edges of many other European metropolis. The headquarter offices of the
Flanking the entrance to the renewed island of Java, the two apartment buildings take up the space that was cleared after the urban transformation of Amsterdam’s docks. This intervention, promoted by the city authorities in the eighties, and which se
In a recently born neighborhood, traversed by canals that connect farm fields with residential areas, two buildings with a singular program play a leading role in the new urban scene. As points of reference in the urban fabric designed for the distri
In the eighties the municipality of Breda came across the possibility of incorporating three old military sites located in the center of the city to its urban development. Two of them remained as public parks, whereas the last one – la Chassé – was t
The reuse of the plot that housed a storage tank of a former sewage plant was the object of a 1994 competition in Amsterdam-West. The urban plan for the area foresaw a series of single-family housing units in the green area that separated two residen
In the Eastern area of Amsterdam, next to the old harbor which has recently been recovered as a residential area, a new construction leans over the water making of formal refrain its main reason of being. As it could not be done in any other way in t
Beyond the surprises which canals always have in store, Amsterdam’s courtyards conceal buildings as secrets. Duiker’s open air school in Amsterdam Zuid is one of them, and now the house-studio for a couple of graphic designers joins this tradition wi
Ceramique Avenue is the central axis of the recent extension along the river that Maastricht is carrying out in an industrial area close to the center of the city which had gradually fallen in disuse. Following the guidelines of the urban plan – that
Near the entrance to the ‘Uithof’ – the campus of Utrecht – rises the Ronald McDonald House, a pavilion that provides accommodations for the families of children confined to the university’s pediatric hospital. Four rectangular concrete trays, each c
Cuando Sigfried Giedion acuñó su concepto de espacio-tiempo a principios de los años cuarenta, es posible que no imaginase la repercusión que seguiría teniendo en el debate arquitectónico medio siglo después. El hecho de añadir a las tres coordenadas
Hasta 1992, Capucijnenhof era un conjunto de edificios del siglo XIX inscritos en una manzana cercana a la principal plaza de Maastricht, Vrijthof, afectado por un proceso de degradación progresiva. Entre las construcciones existentes destacaba un an
Este encargo residencial localizado en el límite del Regenboogbuurt o Barrio del Arcoiris, en la localidad holandesa de Almere, incluye 56 viviendas en propiedad y 28 en régimen de alquiler, situadas a la orilla de uno de los innumerables canales que
El Leijpark es una gran extensión verde situada en el límite sureste del centro de Tilburg. En un extremo de este parque hay un antiguo convento conocido como El Cenáculo, junto al cual se decidió construir viviendas destinadas a mayores de 55 años.
Los trabajos de demolición en Vogelbuurt, una zona residencial de Amersfoort creada durante la posguerra, han permitido liberar espacio que se ha destinado a la construcción de nuevas edificaciones, entre las que se encuentran estas 103 viviendas soc
Lee Simon, the character Kenneth Branagh plays in Celebrity, wants to be successful. One day he realizes that his life has been reduced to the unbearable domestic dimensions of a ‘teaspoon’. He decides to become famous, but to do so, he needs to dist
Located on a square near a 19th-century park, this house is a compromise between the conflicting lifestyles and needs of its two resident couples. The couple that first purchased the lot found itself short of funds to shoulder the costs of building a
The biennial European Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has gone to the unique renovation of the deFlat Kleiburg residential complex in Amsterdam, built by the Dutch firms NL Architects and XVW architectuur. The other fina
The New York studio of Richard Meier initially brought together the Dutchman John Bosch (1960) and the Brit Gordon Haslett (1962). Then, while still in the city of skyscrapers, in 1989, they began to work as a team. In 1993, their first prize win in
(1927-1999) On August 16, complications resulting from a minor operation put an end to the life of Ton Alberts, the Dutch architect whose biography lived up to the ‘courage to dream’ he asked of all. This motto is also present in his architecture, wh
The dwelling is the territory of formal experiments: in Holland and Japan, high demographic density is at times accompanied by high artistic density.
Dutch architecture has become as prominent at the end of the 20th century as it was at the beginning of the century; perhaps more importantly, it is as responsible for developing a new approach to contemporary modernity as it was in helping to initia
At what age are you still a young architect? Several answers have been proposed: young equals under forty; you are young when you haven´t yet built your first big building. Young architects cannot afford to refuse commissions. Young architects, the
Amsterdam is a city of still water (its harbour linked to the sea by canal), while the waters of Rotterdam go in and out with the tide.” This is how the Dutch explain the differences between their first and second largest cities. Both cities are part
September 1998. Piet Mondrian’s very last painting was shipped from publisher Si Newhouse’s bedroom to the Municipal Museum of The Hague. The painting is called Victory Boogie Woogie and Mondrian was working on it until the day he died in New York in
Llamar a esta guía «el clásico entre los libros holandeses de arquitectura» en la contraportada no es una exageración: su exquisita diagramación, sus textos y su organización la convierten en una herramienta imprescindible para explorar in situ el in
La nueva arquitectura se pliega a las circunstancias. Abandonando las imágenes desafiantes y catastróficas de la deconstrucción, las últimas vanguardias se acomodan al mundo a través de pliegues y dobleces. Si los arquitectos que se reclamaban de Der
