All Blog Posts Tagged 'Netherlands' (17)

Wall House 2 is an extraordinary intersection of architecture, cubist painting, and surrealist sculpture.  It employs the vocabulary of Le Corbusier in the way it explores the relationship between inside and outside.

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The Melkwegbridge is designed by NEXT Architects in collaboration with Rietveld Landscape and is located in Purmerend, the…

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Early 17th century Fort de Roovere is surrounded by a moat and was originally built without a bridge.  Yet, as part of a recent restoration program, it required the addition of an access bridge.  Out of respect for the fort’s original island status, Netherlands-based…

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The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, designed by Dutch firm Neutelings Riedijk Architects, consists of five levels above…

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Ooze Architects created the Villa Rotterdam II from an existing home that had been incrementally added to over previous decades.  The goal was to keep the “soul” of the existing home, while still transforming it…

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Het Baken – which translates as “The Beacon” – cuts a striking figure among the residential development Vijfhoek, part of Deventer’s vinex area, in the…

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Sodae House sits on the island Kostverlorenkade 1, in a nature area not far from Amsterdam.  The Netherlands-based architecture firm…

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The Architecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) is not only a visual marvel, but is also confirmation of the creativity of the architect when…

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Standing thirty-one stories tall, with a gross floor area of 54,000 square meters, the GT Tower East is a bold landmark in Seoul, South Korea.  The…

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The Baljurk – “gown” or “evening dress” – sits in the historical center of The Hague, at a corner that used to follow a curvilinear stream, and has since been made into an… Continue

In a nineteenth-century Roman Catholic cemetery in Rotterdam, two chapel shave stood in years past – a neo-Gothic structure of 1880 and a pyramid-shaped building of 1963 – both of which collapsed due to poor foundations on the soft soil.  For…

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24H Architecture designed Housing Getsewoud, the entrance to a newly built housing area in Nieuw-Vennep, using the sound wave as a metaphor for its sensual facades. The project consists of two blocks of residential buildings, each with eighteen social… Continue

In the Municipality of Utrecht, the Centrum Muziek XXI by Architecten van Mourik is the head of a new uninterrupted housing wall along the Loevenhoutsedijk. It is part of the… Continue

The Albino Alligator is a mixed-use development that goes beyond the standard typologies by proposing an intense mix of environments with a wide variety of uses. Designed by Maxwan, the Alligator is composed of five buildings shaped by the spatial and structural… Continue

In Doetinchem, Netherlands stands the new Amphion Theatre. Designed by Mecanoo Architecten, the new theater replaces the successful older one and has sand colored masonry gracefully strewn with…

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Both curious and functional, the Rotterdam Market Hall by MVRDV began construction at the end of last year. MVRDV won the competition by Provast to create the hall while meeting the Netherland's new hygienic constraints, which require traditional open air meat and fish markets to be covered. The hall is also home to 228 residential apartments, 100… Continue

That's right, this delftware tile-clad structure is an industrial power plant. It's located in a prominent spot in the city of Enschede in the Netherlands, where a large "neutral" building with a 40-meter high chimney just wouldn't fit. Stadshaard literally means the "city hearth," and is tiled in a modern rendition of the delftware tiles that line Holland’s traditional open hearths. The tiles traditionally are frequented by images of everyday… Continue