Archined RSS Feed http://www.archined.nl/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:04:26 GMT kort nieuws Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:04:26 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/december/riba-gold-medal-voor-herman-hertzberger/ 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 interviewed six of the seven OMA partners about OMA. Everyone on the stage, including the interviewer, did all they could to take the edge off the idea that OMA equals... nieuws Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/omaparadox-ii/ recensies Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:52:34 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/omaparadox-i/ deSingel in Antwerp is presenting the work of Architects De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. This powerful exhibition oscillates between Wunderkammer and declaration of intent. Instead of displaying, the exhibition questions construction: essential viewing therefore for architects, and a fascinating pinball... recensies Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:24:36 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/driehoeksverhoudingen-met-pit/ The Great Indoors Award is an international, biennial, interior design award and tonight the winners in the 2011 edition were announced in four categories, with a total prize money of 20.000 EUR. kort nieuws Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:05:53 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/november/winners-of-the-great-indoors-award-2011/ Built in the future Designed by Erick van Egeraat won the Russian Best Building Award for his Chess-club building in Khanty, Mansiysk.]]> kort nieuws Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:22:38 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/oktober/designed-by-erick-van-egeraat-wins-a-russian-best-building-award-2011/ In a follow-up to the 2009 lecture series of the same name from the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology, the compilation Architecture as a Craft edited by Professor of Public Building Michiel Riedijk was recently published. A review. recensies Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:24:48 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/architecture-as-a-craft/ Freiham Nord will be the last substantial development to take place in Munich (Germany) and will accommodate about 10.000 inhabitants. West 8’s winning entry is about a friendly green housing and neighbourhood center. kort nieuws Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:54:56 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/oktober/west-8-and-ortner-ortner-winners-of-freiham-nord-urban-and-landscape-planning-competition-munich/ The MVRDV and COBE scheme for the transformation of a former concrete factory into a multifunctional creative hub was chosen winner of an international design competition. The masterplan proposes an informal transformation of the 45.000m2 site into a dense neighborhood, incl. 8.000m2 existing... kort nieuws Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:39:44 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/oktober/mvrdv-and-cobe-win-danish-rock-museum-competition-in-roskilde/ recensies Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:43:17 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/struggle-for-self-development/ The International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) presents the winners of the 2011 Book, Exhibition Catalogue and Journalism Awards, as they were announced at the CICA Symposium held within the UIA World Congress Tokyo 2011 on September 28th in the Tokyo International Forum. kort nieuws Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:42:32 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/september/architectural-critics-prizes-for-oase-and-rietvelds-universe/ Today sees the launch by ArchiNed and 010 Publishers of architectureguide.nl and architectuurgids.nl. These websites give access to every item ever featured in the architectural guides issued in book form by 010 Publishers. The website will also be added to the ArchiNed menubar. kort nieuws Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:43:05 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/engels/lancering-architectuurgidsnl-en-architectureguidenl/ The exhibition ‘Double or Nothing’ in Bozar (Brussels) presents the work of Belgian office 51N4E. In his opening lecture Peter Swinnen offered the architectural public insight into the business ethics of this successful design firm. recensies Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:03:31 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/architecture-or-your-life/ kort nieuws Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:59:48 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/augustus/dutch-success-in-basel/ Rotterdam, 18xx. A man standing on the northern margin of the river Maas spots another person strolling along the southern bank. He cups his hands to his mouth and yells: “Hey, how do I cross to the other side?”. To which his southern neighbour responds: “I don’t know. I was born here”. Although... recensies Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:23:53 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/in-praise-of-emphatic-pragmatism/ Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (...) saviour of the universe and the humanity. And, like God, it has millions of believers. opinie Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/opinie/2011/o-mighty-green/ The New York City based WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) is the winner of the competition to select a master planning consultant for the future development of New Holland Island in St Petersburg, Russia. kort nieuws Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:52:22 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/augustus/workac-wins-the-new-holland-island-competition/ To have a glimpse is to have a peek. In the case of the exhibition ‘Glimpses 2040: New York/ Amsterdam’ currently on display at ARCAM in Amsterdam and simultaneously in the AIA Centre for Architecture in New York City, a glimpse is well defined as a vision for the future. recensies Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/visualising-the-future-new-york-city-meets-amsterdam/ Reconstructing a building with new materials is at odds with one of the most important principles of modern western building conservation, namely the preservation of a physical object in its original materials as a historical source. That is why reconstruction is so controversial within heritage... nieuws Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/reconstructie-waarom-niet/ European Architecture since 1890 by Hans Ibelings. He was impressed by the overview of architecture in Europe offered by Ibelings but questions his view of architectural history.]]> recensies Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:39:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/universal-language-of-forms/ The Rotterdam based office of Maxwan Architects + Urbanists in collaboration with the Brussels based 1010 architecture urbanism win the open call for Machelen-Diegem masterplan (Belgium). kort nieuws Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:14:14 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/juni/maxwan-with-1010-architecture-urbanism-win-machelen-diegem-masterplan/ The chairman of the jury, Yung Ho Chang announced the winners during the Award ceremony in New York in a packed Guggenheim with more than 450 guest on June 9th 2011. nieuws Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/juni/the-winners-of-the-archiprix-international-hunter-douglas-awards-are/ MOKUM, A guide to Amsterdam is an almost 200-page-thick guide that does everything your average travel guide tries to avoid. A traditional guide assists the traveller in negotiating a safe passage through the limitless choices that present themselves. MOKUM, by contrast, is decidedly...]]> recensies Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:02:21 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/mokum-alternatieve-gids-voor-amsterdam/ It seems like centuries since a brand-new museum was built in a Flemish city, but this spring sees the opening, after a twenty-year process, of the Museum Aan de Stroom in Antwerp. Designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architects (NRA), the building is an extremely clear, lucid and self-conscious... recensies Tue, 31 May 2011 09:26:25 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/the-challenge-of-the-mas/ It doesn’t often happen that architecture, including the process of design, construction and use, is given a fundamental overhaul. In his recently published book Towards a New Kind of Building, however, Kas Oosterhuis makes a convincing attempt to do just that. In it he returns to the basics, or... recensies Wed, 25 May 2011 13:38:44 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/forward-to-basics/ kort nieuws Tue, 24 May 2011 13:10:16 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/mei/kcapfaktonramboll-win-masterplan-fredericiac-denmark/ This spring various generations of architects from all over the world met one another in Selinunte, Sicily. Among them were budding talents who have just completed their first projects in their native regions, and architects from firms that operate globally. The nice thing about the gathering was... nieuws Wed, 11 May 2011 09:03:11 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/architecten-ontmoeten-elkaar-in-selinunte-visies-voor-de-onmiddellijke-toekomst/ The restoration of the Open-Air School by Jan Duiker in Amsterdam was completed last year. This adds another icon of Dutch Functionalism to the list of structures — Zonnestraal sanatorium, the Van Nelle Factory and the Glass Palace department store — that have been spruced up and prepared for the... reportage Mon, 09 May 2011 09:03:18 GMT http://www.archined.nl/reportages/first-open-air-school-for-the-healthy-child/ kort nieuws Mon, 09 May 2011 08:29:37 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/mei/kcap-wins-competition-for-regeneration-in-china/ Forced by the economic slump, architects as well as urban designers are searching for new approaches. With the publication of The Spontaneous City the office Urhahn Urban Design wants to offer a manual to redefine the profession. A book is not a city, but all the same this pleasant collection of... recensies Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:48:34 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/the-spontaneous-city/ The very first pictures of the earth taken from outer space changed the way I look and think forever. The earth is our spacecraft, our mother, and home to all of us. (Luc Deleu, 2011)]]> nieuws Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:50:41 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/over-een-bureau-dat-niet-wil-bouwen/ Blame the architect! - suggests otherwise, Vanstiphout argued...]]> nieuws Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:30:24 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/architecture-blame-and-punishment/ It was no coincidence that Essam Sharaf, the new prime minister of Egypt, chose Tahrir Square as the venue for his very first speech to the people. During the demonstrations earlier this year and the revolution that followed, Midan Tahrir (Liberation Square) showed just how important and... nieuws Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:36:11 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/cairo-2011-architecture-by-the-people/ The ten projects that Marijn Schenk of NEXT Architects raced through during his lecture at the Groningen Academy of Architecture covered the various areas in which the office is active: design and research projects in the field of interior, architecture, urbanism and infrastructure alternated with... nieuws Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:53:14 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/next-architects-searching-to-balance-city-and-countryside/ There is a lot of unoccupied office space, and in Rotterdam they want to attract more residents into the city. So what could be more logical than converting empty offices into homes? nieuws Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/kantoren-worden-woningen/ MVRDV, Djamel Klouche and François Leclercq and two other teams have been selected to collaborate for the coming four years on a vision of a 300ha old industrial area and port, the Caen Peninsula (Presqu’ile de Caen). kort nieuws Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:51:28 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2011/engels/mvrdv-selected-to-envision-refurbishment-caen-france/ Countless locations lie vacant in the urbanised areas of the Netherlands. We cannot allow so much land to go unused. After all, space is scarce and expensive in our densely populated country. Evidently we are failing to deal efficiently with our precious space, despite the persistent government... opinie Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:19:43 GMT http://www.archined.nl/opinie/2011/appeal-for-improvisation/ Since its establishment in 1977, Bureau B+B, a collective whose name still reminds us of its founders Riek Bakker and Ank Bleeker, can without exaggeration be called the key player in innovation and the launch pad for new talent in urbanism and landscape architecture in the Netherlands. It is... recensies Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/the-collective-genius-of-bureau-b-b/ 335 pages, 10 editors, 17 critics, 38 projects, and an obituary. The Flanders Architectural Yearbook is more impressive than ever. One thing is abundantly clear: the Flemish Architecture Institute wants to embed architecture deeply in the Flemish policy framework. recensies Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:25:45 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/the-grass-is-always-greener/ As part of its Rietveld Year, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht is presenting an exhibition called Rietveld’s Universe, an incredibly ambitious title for an exhibition that is far too modest in comparison. Under the leadership of Ida van Zijl, the work of Rietveld has once again been dusted down in an... recensies Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:04:25 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2011/engels/the-provincial-rietveld/ nieuws Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:23:13 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2011/engels/sound-and-space/ In a few years we will all navigate our way through the city with a smartphone. The Amsterdam version of the mobile architecture application from the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) leaves you in no doubt about that, despite the teething troubles and its limited possibilities. Soon you... nieuws Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:21:46 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2010/engels/remote-control-for-the-city/ West Arch: A New Generation in Architecture has just ended. On show was the architecture of a self-conscious new generation, flourishing amidst the art of Richter, Warhol and Ai Weiwei. Not much sweet talking here; instead, a thirst for action sets the tone.]]> recensies Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:51:23 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2010/engels/noodzaak-of-conventie-west-arch-in-het-ludwig-forum/ During the study tour of nine European cities organised by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, we saw how in times of change authorities deploy culture to promote their city. What’s more, we met with activists who try to improve urban living conditions, for... nieuws Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:00:39 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2010/engels/collaborating-on-the-city/ In response to the many articles that have recently appeared in the media on the subject of new traditionalism in architecture, this text and project amount to an appeal to view traditionalism as just one of the directions in which housing in the Netherlands is moving. reportage Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:51:18 GMT http://www.archined.nl/reportages/steel-study-house-nr-2/ On 1 October, a group of twenty artists, architects, designers and observers embarked on the airplane to Skopje. The capital of the Republic of Macedonia was to be the first of the nine cities visited during the 17-day study trip ‘What’s Up, What’s Down. Cultural Catalysts in Urban Spaces’... nieuws Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:14:55 GMT http://www.archined.nl/nieuws/2010/engels/cities-between-dream-and-reality/ A bang on a kettledrum signalled the opening of the new extension to deSingel in Antwerp on 1 October. The art centre underlined its clear ambition with a programme that includes dance, drama, music, and a widely announced Braem exhibition. Beautifully presented but in a gallery slightly too small,... recensies Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:32:51 GMT http://www.archined.nl/recensies/2010/engels/whiplashes-in-words-and-pictures/ kort nieuws Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:33:49 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2010/oktober/5th-international-architecture-biennale-rotterdam/ It was recently announced that Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman of ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] are among the team of curators for the next architecture biennale in Rotterdam. ArchiNed spoke to them about the transformation of Schieblock from an office block into a multi-tenant cultural... interview Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:16:37 GMT http://www.archined.nl/interviews/engels/de-adaptieve-stedenbouw-van-zus/ World Monuments Fund has awarded its 2010 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize to Bierman Henket Architecten and Wessel de Jonge Architecten for their exemplary restoration of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium (designed 1926-28; completed 1931), a little-known but iconic modern structure in... kort nieuws Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:24:14 GMT http://www.archined.nl/kort-nieuws/2010/oktober/world-monuments-fundknoll-modernism-prize-awarded-for-restoration-of-zonnestraal-sanatorium/