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The first public gathering of the International New Town Institute took place on Tuesday evening May 27 at the Kunstlinie art centre in Almere, organised in conjunction with Casla architecture centre. The aim of the Internatio…
Betsky’s presentation was lively and persuasive. His story started with a phone call from Mister Baratta. 'I’ve a problem. Can you help?,' Baratta asked. 'Maybe, but who are you?,' answered Betsky. Baratta turned out to be director …
‘André was born in 1968, I in 1971 – that’s why.’ This is prize-winner Oliver Thill’s laconic reply to the suggestion that statutory reasons alone meant that the Maaskant Prize was awarded to him personally – winners must be aged 35 yea…
The jury, Ian Gilzean, Hitoshi Abe (Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Tokai), Bridget Baines (GROSS. MAX. Edinburgh), Zvi Efrat (Efrat-Kowalsky, Tel Aviv) and Gilles Saucier (Saucier + Perrotte, Montreal) selected six project which received a priz…
'The clues of what we created during our career and wrote about architecture and urbanism can be found in Bob's first building »Mother's House«. From contradiction and complexity to communicative architecture, and from interior…
Now that it's the holiday season, a large portion of the population voluntarily resides in conditions that fall well short of standards that normally apply to housing. Crammed together in minimal, poorly isolated 'dwellings'…
The exhibition is an initiative of the Ministry of Transport and Water Management, the Foundation for Art and Public Space (SKOR) and the Atelier HSL. It sets out to give some relevance to the cultural and social significance of…
Friday February 7 a decision was taken on 'Ground Euro.' From the invited proposals for 'the development of a global urban-design concept,' the winners turned out to be a Spanish-Belgian alliance: Aries, Idom, Moritz et Simon, L'Ate…
Kleiburg is a typical Bijlmer block from the early 1970s with 500 rental dwellings on ten floors. The block is located in what is known as the Bijlmer Museum, where the blocks and surrounding space will preserve their original form an…
The 123 submitted schemes, 27 of them from abroad, were distributed fairly evenly among three categories.Bulb & BreakfastThe category Bulb & Breakfast called for the design of temporary lodgings in a traditional bulb-s…
Chairman for the day Ole Bouman kicked off by listing 7 points for a new architecture. Archis's editor-in-chief called for a 'time-based architecture' of programmable (bearing) structures and surfaces, allowing buildings to accomm…
The programme has been put together after taking stock of the wishes, ambitions and needs of Rotterdammers and institutions and organisations in Rotterdam. This resulted in ten subjects that form the basis for the Rotterdam…