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March 9, 2009
  • ArchiNed.nl
    True Cities: a photo(geo)graphic installation by Charlie Koolhaas
    Photographs by Charlie Koolhaas are on show through March 26 at Aedes architecture gallery in Berlin. The exhibition True Cities offers an exciting and disturbing portrait of four rapidly growing cities.
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    Nothing is more fascinating to an architect and urban designer than a rapidly growing city. New buildings that continually transform the city‘s appearance, the changing lifestyle of inhabitants, the struggle to survive in the chaos we call the city. …
February 19, 2009
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Report from China
    The volume of reporting on the rampant growth of Chinese cities is causing a sense of China fatigue. But the country remains fascinating nonetheless. Despite the credit crunch, economic growth is still strong. Much of the attention will shift to the countryside in the coming years, and that is badly needed since China is still a largely agrarian society, writes Harry den Hartog from Shanghai.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Family connections have brought me to China every year since the millennium and enabled me to observe developments from near at hand and far away and see the country change with great leaps. Eight years ago there wasn’t a single car in the village of…
November 24, 2008
  • ArchiNed.nl
    More for less: An optimistic strategy of renewal in sombre times
    The publication PLUS: Large Scale Housing Development - an Exceptional Case makes a convincing argument for the renewal of big housing complexes in France. In the Dutch situation the PLUS strategy can complement the current, one-sided discussion on the renewal of the post-war city.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    In their practice, the three authors – French architects Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal – work on making careful and continuous changes to the existing city. To them, total demolition followed by new construction is not an opti…
July 21, 2008
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Merchant mentality in The Promised Land
    Where do you start when you’re commissioned to design a new city in Asia or Russia? How do you deal with cultural differences, regulations and language? These questions formed the starting point for an evening programme organised by the International New Town Institute to examine urban development in Asia.
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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 International New Town Institute i…
July 7, 2008
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Innovative hotel chain examined
    A new hotel is rising rapidly right next to the departure hall at Schiphol Airport. Luxury, just like all the other hotels at Schiphol, but without the exorbitant room-rate demanded by most other hotels in the area. What’s the secret behind the new Citizen M hotel chain? A team from Booosting examined the innovative construction method of this hotel.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Small rooms with a lot of luxury: that’s the formula behind Citizen M. »If you’re in town for a short stay, then you certainly don’t want a big luxury room with all the extras«, argues Jeroen Vester of Amsterdam design firm Concrete, ‘but the alterna…
March 3, 2008
January 3, 2008
  • Detail Online
    Bodegas Protos Winery
    Detail Online – news
    The construction of the Bodegas Protos Winery in Peñafiel has been finished. The building of Winery designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour …
February 1, 2007
  • ArchiNed.nl
    The logo of Bucharest
    The symposium Regimes of Representation: Art & Politics Beyond the House of People was held in the House of People (Palace of the Parliament) in Bucharest (Romania) on January 11. Symposium organisers Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden (Meta Haven: Design Research) explain the significance of this building.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The ‘Zone Palatul Parlamentului’ was realised in all its dull monumentality during the Ceausescu regime. The dictator got the idea for the biggest ever grand projet after visiting North Korea, where he saw at first hand what a socialist…
December 1, 2006
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Design for coals
    Just a two-hour drive from Rotterdam is the Ruhrgebiet landscape and culture park, whose main attraction is Zollverein in Essen. With the completion of OMA’s conversion of the Coal Refinery and SANAA's new Zollverein School, the transformation of this former industrial site is starting to take shape.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    When the smelly and unhealthy mining industry disappeared from the Ruhrgebiet in the 1980s, the region was left to deal with heavily polluted land and high unemployment. The Internationale Bauaustelling (IBA) Emscher Park, which started in 1989, put …
November 1, 2006
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Noodles versus Magnum
    Researcher and designer Ekim Tan from Istanbul, currently living in Rotterdam and developing her doctorate research proposal at Delft University of Technology, kept a diary of her visit to the International Forum on Urbanism in Beijing in October.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Tuesday October 17‘Noodles or Magnum?’ What a choice I think half sleepily as I hear the stewardess in the distance. Slurping my noodles, I’m impressed by the seemingly endless cinnamon coloured Gobi Desert down below. Having stu…
October 31, 2006
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Housing Generator revisited
    In 1997 ArchiNed let the Housing Generator project pass by unnoticed. Now, almost ten years later, we’re making up for that. In South Africa Jeroen Mensink visited Barbara Southworth, prize-winner for the Cato Manor (Durban) location and now director of the Department of City Spatial Development & Urban Design in Cape Town.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    In 1996, two years after the first post-apartheid elections were held in South Africa, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam initiated the Housing Generator Competition for South African Cities, a project that involved various South African instit…
May 30, 2006
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Buenos Aires Diary
    Argentina is about to industrialise the process of waste-disposal treatment. The problem of waste disposal is being tackled ambitiously, and the aim is 0% waste in 2017! In March Caro Isern, Iris de Kievith and Jan Jongert organised the ‘reciclan’ workshop. Together with Argentinean designers and waste specialists, they looked for ways to turn common local waste products into building materials.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Saturday March 25 Turbulent times in Buenos Aires. Just a week ago the president decided that March 24 is a national day of remembrance to commemorate the military coup in 1976. By law, all civil servants enjoy a free day; hospital operations and mar…
April 1, 2005
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Casa da Música Porto by OMA
    For many years, new noticeable objects in the urban landscape of Porto have been ruled by consumerism, with shopping malls and speculative housing complexes, and by the established codes of the Porto School, with Álvaro Siza as the foreman. The new millennium starts with Koolhaas' appearance shaking things up.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    A diamond-shaped white concrete Casa da Música [CdM] slowly emerged in the most central roundabout of the local modern urbanity. From the very beginning, the process was politically and urban disturbed. This fact placed its construction, archite…
December 1, 2004
  • ArchiNed.nl
    MVRDV in Madrid
    First a museum in Japan, now apartments in Spain. A remarkable housing project by MVRDV in Madrid nears completion. A preview with photos by Rob 't Hart.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Spain is currently in the midst of a building boom. An ideas competition was staged early this year on the assumption that some 400,000 dwellings will be needed in the Barcelona region over the next twenty years. Madrid, meanwhile, is spreading out f…
August 2, 2004
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Skins for buildings
    Just released is 'Skins for Buildings', a bulky encyclopaedia of materials that helps architects find the right material. A review by Harrie van Helmond.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The title of this massive reference work (over 500 pages) emphasises the full-page photos of the documented building materials and the two photos of buildings in which the material in question is applied. But the accompanying text forms the core of t…
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