February 2020

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX DE WERF BY OZ

By |2020-02-25T14:23:49+02:00February 25th, 2020|Amsterdam|

Housing complex ‘De Werf’ is the first large-scale development of the northern part of the former NDSM shipyards in Amsterdam. The design by OZ consists of 74,000 square meters consisting of seven buildings, each with its own architectural expression. In 2011, together with Burton Hamfelt, OZ performed research on the spatial implications of the evolving [...]

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January 2020

NEW ING OFFICE IN AMSTERDAM

By |2020-01-31T13:23:47+02:00January 31st, 2020|Amsterdam|

Cedar consists of two five storey volumes connected by a glass footbridge that ensures a fast link between all levels. The building, the interior and the surrounding park are designed as an integral, welcoming whole, establishing a new typology for financial institutions: instead of emphasizing security and power, the architecture focuses on transparency, connectivity [...]

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December 2019

NHOW AMSTERDAM RAI HOTEL BY OMA

By |2019-12-20T11:28:29+02:00December 20th, 2019|Amsterdam|

Dutch architect OMA has built the 24-storey Nhow Amsterdam RAI Hotel in Amsterdam, which is made from three triangular volumes stacked on top of each other. OMA has completed the tower, which is now being fitted out as a hotel for the NH Hotel Group, which owns the Nhow brand. When it opens it will have 650 rooms [...]

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October 2019

NEW GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY AND SANDBERG INSTITUTE

By |2019-10-01T12:26:13+02:00October 1st, 2019|Amsterdam|

‘Driven by lack of space, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut ordered the construction of a complementary third building on its grounds, opposite the building designed by Gerrit Rietveld and next to the expansion by Benthem & Crouwel. The resulting campus provides this leading art school with a new setting. User Expertise and [...]

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July 2019

NEW HERMÈS TRANSPARENT BOUTIQUE IN AMSTERDAM BY MVRDV

By |2019-07-05T11:46:42+02:00July 5th, 2019|Amsterdam|

A glass-fronted townhouse designed by MVRDV now serves as a store for luxury fashion brand Hèrmes, with warm-tone interiors by French design agency RDAI. Dutch architecture firm MVRDV completed the townhouse's partially see-through facade back in 2016, using hundreds of specially-engineered glass bricks and a transparent high-strength glue. Named Crystal Houses, the building is nestled amongst a parade of [...]

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