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March 1, 2007
  • ‘It makes a difference to make art’
    Artist Olafur Eliasson gave a wonderful lecture in front of a packed auditorium at the NAi on Tuesday evening, March 5, 2007. Luckily, he didn’t talk about the announced theme – ‘structure’ as one of the seven pillars of architecture – but he did talk about his work and, especially, the ideas behind it.
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    There is something about this artist from Berlin. His best-known work, the Weather Project at the Tate Modern – a shining sun that was occasionally obscured by mist – was repeatedly shown by various speakers during the Projective Landsc…
June 2, 2005
  • New-generation motorway architecture
    The Utrecht architecture café organised an excursion on June 4 to two of the city's most prominent new projects: the motorway buildings by Kas Oosterhuis and Fons Verheijen in Leidsche Rijn.
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    My drive to Utrecht last Saturday took me along the A12 motorway. Strewn thoughtlessly along both sides of the roadway were miserable-looking boxes decorated with signage that clamoured for attention, interrupted occasionally by stretches of acoustic…
February 9, 2004
  • Junkiehotel Utrecht - BAR
    BAR Architecten has converted a historic building on Maliebaan in Utrecht into a hotel for drug addicts. A stack of ivy-covered service modules structures the spatial organisation of the complex.
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    The 'Junkie Hotel' on Maliebaan can accommodate 28 homeless people addicted to hard drugs. The scheme is part of a municipal drive to provide relief for 200 homeless addicts from around the city. In addition to offering shelter, the hotel aims to off…
June 1, 2003
  • Garden Shed as Architectural Assignment
    Located on the fringes of all large towns in the Netherlands are allotment gardens containing small plots where people have a shed or summerhouse and where they grow flowers and vegetables in a park setting. Many people move into their house early in the summer season and only move out when the season draws to a close.
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    A new breed of allotment garden is taking shape at the foot of Prins Claus Bridge in Utrecht. Groenewoud Gardens provides green surroundings for office villas interspersed among the allotments. Particular attention was paid to the architecture of the…
January 22, 2003
  • Four Delta Metropolises
    On the invitation of Government Architect Jo Coenen, four teams have spent recent months drawing up proposals for the Delta Metropolis. Monday December 9 saw the presentation of the four proposals for the area ‘formerly known as’ Randstad.
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    The four schemes are a response to questions put last September by Donald van Dansik of One Architecture, leader of the Delta Metropolis Design Workshop. The key question was whether, and if so how, the Delta Metropolis can be defined as a single ent…
March 19, 2001
  • Are they or aren't they?
    Last February, there was a public discussion at the NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute) on the subject of the individual commissioning of dwellings, with as title 'Shaping the Netherlands: Architectural Policy 2001-2004'. After a whole evening spent discussing the new policy proposal to allow 30% of new housing production to be undertaken on the initiative of private individuals, Member of Parliament Adri Duivesteijn concluded: "The builders are against it, the developers are against it, and the local authorities are against it. Three good reasons to continue."including a response by Mark Zaitsoff BEd. University of Manitoba
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    Individual commissioning is one of the major projects set out in the architecture policy document for 2001-2004 Shaping the Netherlands. These projects fall under the direct responsibility of the government. Individual housing has been 'adopted' by J…
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