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architecture
1 November 2012

Today it is twenty years ago that the Rotterdam Kunsthal opened its doors to the public. Without a doubt a key project in the wo...

ArchiTV: Building In China 1: Guangzhou TV-Tower

architecture
3 October 2012

In an upcoming series of videoportaits 'Building in China', the story of Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit (Information Based Architec...

Europe without European Architecture

architecture, theory
14 June 2012 / Martijn Kruijf

The deSingel in Antwerp recently hosted the closing event of ‘How do we make Europe II’, a lecture series organised by the Flemi...

Shocking images

urban design
15 February 2012 / Bart Witteman

Each year the Bakema Foundation awards a fellowship for research that ‘can offer a new perspective on the design, use and percep...

OMA/Paradox II

architecture
28 November 2011 / Marina van den Bergen

How do you see yourself? How do you want others to see you? And how do others see you? In a packed Barbican Theatre Chris Dercon...

Reconstruction — why not!?

architecture
18 July 2011 / Mascha van Damme

Reconstructing a building with new materials is at odds with one of the most important principles of modern western building con...

The winners of the Archiprix International / Hunter Douglas Awards are.....

architecture, landscape, urban design
10 June 2011 / source: Archiprix International

The chairman of the jury, Yung Ho Chang announced the winners during the Award ceremony in New York in a packed Guggenheim with ...

Architects meet one another in Selinunte: visions for the immediate future

architecture
11 May 2011 / Alex van de Beld

This spring various generations of architects from all over the world met one another in Selinunte, Sicily. Among them were budd...

About an office that doesn’t want to build

urban design, theory
11 April 2011 / Marieke Hillen

The very first pictures of the earth taken from outer space changed the way I look and think forever. The earth is our spacecraf...

Architecture, blame and punishment

architecture, urban design
30 March 2011 / Gideon Boie

How responsible is architecture for the wave of violence that afflicts our western cities, with Paris in 2005 as the most recent...

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Conflict and context in Schijndel. The Glass Farm by MVRDV

architecture
11 February 2013 / Myrthe Buijs

A personal victory, a much-discussed building, and a heated debate. The Glass Farm by MVRDV opened its doors in mid-January. It ...

Continue with Cuypers. The revamped Rijksmuseum

architecture
17 September 2012 / Willemien van Duijn

The renovation of the Rijkmuseum has provoked plenty of grumbling in recent years. It’s taken too long, it’s cost too much money...

Designs for Tahrir Square

architecture
16 July 2012 / Florentine Visser en Katja Schäfer

It's really not an easy task to come up with a design for Tahrir Square, the symbol of the Egyptian revolution, which has not en...

Zaandam Inverdan: unbridled power of design

architecture, urban design
11 April 2012 / Allard Jolles

A good urban design is only really good if it works at all scales. The way it is inserted into its surroundings, the relation be...

The Power of Surprise

architecture
5 March 2012 / Hans Teerds

John van de Water, one of the partners of architecture office NEXT, wrote a book about his adventures in China. Hans Teerds was ...

OMA/Paradox I

architecture
17 November 2011 / Thomas Wensing

The exhibition OMA/Progress runs until February 2012 at the Barbican Centre in London, a major retrospective which aims to be so...

A spirited threesome

architecture
9 November 2011 / Bjorn Houttekier

deSingel in Antwerp is presenting the work of Architects De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. This powerful exhibition oscillates between W...

Architecture as a craft

architecture
11 October 2011 / Jasper de Haan

In a follow-up to the 2009 lecture series of the same name from the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology, t...

Struggle for self-development

architecture
29 September 2011 / Aldo Trim

Miguel Fisac's best-known building may be demolished, but it still provokes discussion. However, the documentary ‘The Freaky Sto...

Architecture or your life

architecture
7 September 2011 / Gideon Boie

The exhibition ‘Double or Nothing’ in Bozar (Brussels) presents the work of Belgian office 51N4E. In his opening lecture Peter S...

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Oscar Niemeyer 1907-2012: "Het leven is een zucht weet je, waarin je moet lachen en huilen"

architecture
6 December 2012 / redactie

ArchiTV: Live Stream Lecture José Oubrerie

architecture
22 November 2012

Donderdag 22 november vanaf 18.30 Live Stream lezing José Oubrerie, een van de laatste levende medewerkers van Le Corbusier. Eer...

Every issue of 'De Stijl' (1917-1920) online as a PDF archive

architecture
26 October 2012

UbuWeb, a independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts, has digitalized eve...

Maxwan wint prijs in South Harbour Helsinki Competition

urban design
17 September 2012 / Maxwan

Atelier Kempe Thill wins rue binet 66 housing Paris (France)

architecture
16 May 2012 / source Atelier Kempe Thill

Atelier Kempe Thill has recently won an invited competition for 55 apartments, a dentist’s surgery, a mother child centre and a ...

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ArchiTV: The Berlage Studios 2011-12, The Second Year

architecture
14 November 2012

The Berlage Institute move to the Architecture Faculty of Delft University and goes on under the name The Berlage. But what was ...

ArchiTV Lecture: Michael Sorkin

architecture, urban design
10 October 2012

'Make no mistake, the planet is going to hell in a hand basket.' These were the opening words of Michael Sorkins key note speech...

First Open-Air School for the Healthy Child

architecture
9 May 2011 / Wessel de Jonge Architecten

The restoration of the Open-Air School by Jan Duiker in Amsterdam was completed last year. This adds another icon of Dutch Funct...

Steel Study House nr. 2

architecture
23 November 2010 / Eric Vreedenburgh

In response to the many articles that have recently appeared in the media on the subject of new traditionalism in architecture, ...

Vegetable shed

architecture, landscape
18 October 2010

Next up in the series of charming, exceptional and/or beautiful small projects that land in the ArchiNed inbox is EETHUIS. This ...

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ArchiTV: Yona Friedman: ' You are obliged to stay mainstream'

architecture
30 October 2012

Yona Friedman (1923) is one of the most visionary architects of the 20th century. His ideas on Villes Spatiale and Raft Building...

Changing times for the Berlage Institute

architecture, policy, urban design
14 May 2012 / Marina van den Bergen, Piet Vollaard

The Berlage Institute will cease to exist on 1 August 2012. At precisely the same moment a new institute, called The Berlage Cen...

Adaptive urbanism by ZUS

architecture, urban design
25 October 2010 / Lotte Haagsma

It was recently announced that Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman of ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] are among the team of curat...

In search of the most ideal foreign programme

architecture, policy, interior and design, landscape, urban design
13 September 2010 / Lotte Haagsma

The four-year Dutch Design Fashion and Architecture (DutchDFA) programme started in the spring of 2009. ArchiNed spoke with prog...

Open City: Designing Coexistence

urban design
6 July 2009 / Marina van den Bergen, Piet Vollaard

A conversation with Kees Christiaanse in his capacity as curator of the fourth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. A ...

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Beursberichten: Objects of desire

5 February 2009 / Society Redactie

Gelijktijdig met Art Rotterdam is Object Rotterdam te zien. Object Rotterdam toont unicaten en in kleine series geproduceerde ge...

10e Archicup Rotterdam

29 September 2008 / Society Redactie

De 10e editie van de Rotterdam Archicup was een groot succes mede dankzij de strakke organisatie door A3 architecten. Het was sc...

Luchtbrug naar Venetië

23 September 2008 / Society Redactie

Ook ArchiNeds Societyredactie was present tijdens de openingsdagen van de elfde architectuurbiennale in Venetië. In een tro...

MUG Dinner door DUS

27 June 2008 / Indira van ’t Klooster for Society

Je moet het maar durven... Het beroemde Finse designlabel Iittala vraagt je om een mok te ontwerpen die Amsterdam verbeeldt. En ...

Vakmanschap is Meesterschap (2)

16 May 2008 / Society Redactie

Is dat echt Roberto Meyer?

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