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March 3, 2009
  • Planning 2.0 Made in Friesland
    A self-proclaimed revolutionary project is taking shape in Opeinde, a village in Friesland, of all places. A new neighbourhood is being planned by an online community through the Wijbouweneenwijk (Dutch for ‘we’re building a neighbourhood’) website. Does the Internet herald a new era for urban and town planning?
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    Web 2.0 seems to have permeated – admittedly a little slowly – to neighbourhood management and urban development. Amsterdam housing associations recently launched the Buurtleven website (www.buurtleven.nl), a digital bulletin board where residents ca…
September 25, 2008
  • Venice (2) the national pavilions
    Out There: Architecture Beyond Building is the motto of the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale. The national pavilions also make their contribution to this theme, which can be taken in a socially engaged or a more abstract and conceptual direction. Here are some striking pavilions selected by the ArchiNed editors.
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    Gas pipe You can’t be clear enough when making a political statement at a circus like the biennale, as the tiny country of Estonia understands all too well. In response to controversial plans by Gazprom for a pipeline between Russia and Germany, cura…
February 7, 2008
November 6, 2007
  • Almere letters no.1 - The Trojan Horse
    You, the ‘ordinary’ individual! Now log onto the municipality’s digital plot-shop, pick yourself a piece of land from and realize the house of your dreams. Welcome to 21st century city generation in Almere, the ‘adolescent’ new town of the Netherlands. Urban developers, large-scale construction firms and housing corporations are pushed off the stage and finally now you are given the chance to become the producer of your city. Your local government wants you to be proactive, creative and engaged!
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    This is not just a bunch of housing projects attached to a new town but the largest housing production endeavor of the coming decades in the Netherlands. 60.000 new homes are envisioned to be built by 2030, one-third (20.000) of which is to be custom…
January 7, 2000
  • Heroic Archigram
    The legendary exhibition Archigram experimental architecture 1961-1974 first went on show in Vienna in 1994. After travelling half the world, the exhibition has now arrived in Rotterdam. Models, installations, panels covered in drawings - all projects by the English Archigram group exudes the popular culture so typical of the 1960s.
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    Archigram started out as the name of a stencilled magazine whose first issue - which sold 300 issues - appeared in 1961. The name Archigram, analogous to words like telegram and aerogram, was an implicit reference to the transitory nature of the mag.…
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