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October 24, 2008
  • «Arctic culture centre« in Hammerfest completed
    Detail Online – news
    The new Arctic culture centre in Hammerfest, the world’s northernmost town, designed by a-lab architects was completed this month. The building, which is used as a venue for art, cultural events and conferences, is visible from both land and sea and …
July 21, 2008
  • 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.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    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…
May 5, 2008
  • Douala in Translation
    The book Douala in Translation was recently published. Its subtitle promises a ‘view’ of the biggest city in Cameroon and its ‘creative transforming potentials’.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Marilyn Douala Bell is the great-granddaughter of King Rudolf Douala Manga Bell, who fought against the Germans and erected the famous Pagoda Palace in Douala. She set up doual’art with Didier Schaub in 1991. Doual’art is based on the assumption that…
March 3, 2008
January 15, 2008
  • Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
    Detail Online – news
    Kyu Sung Woo Architects has designed the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum serves as the starting point of a campus-wide art installation program, including a collection of …
March 15, 2005
  • Nature is a design
    How do we navigate through office landscapes, tree structures and recreational parks? Have motorways, airports and supermarkets become our natural surroundings? The organisers of the Biggest Visual Power Show thought it was time to redefine the meaning of the word ‘nature’. With VJ images as the glue connecting art, science and design, Next Nature examined the nature of the future last.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Statements from more than twenty image-makers and thinkers were presented in rapid succession. One thing was clear: our 'next nature' is not that championed by the World Wildlife Fund. Instead, nature is a human creation. From stacked landscapes to D…
June 14, 2004
  • The individual fantasy
    Dutch photographer Bas Princen was schooled in design, not in photography. Perhaps that is why he looks at the surrounding landscape, of Holland in particular, differently. Artificial Arcadia, his 40-photo-thick debut novel, deals with that landscape and its use.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    To explore and comment on Dutch landscape in transformation, Princen sets up his large-format camera before any intended user has even entered the frame, or has even been selected. And then there really is something worth seeing: uses other than thos…
July 1, 2003
  • H-H-HSL, a cult exhibition about leftovers
    On show until August 3 in Rotterdam’s Groothandelsgebouw is the exhibition ‘A Design For Places Left Over After Planning’. Anyone expecting to find a mouthful of exquisite sushi or Mediterranean anti-pasta among all these leftovers is in for a disappointment. What they will find is a veritable hodgepodge of dazzling designs for works of art along the route of the future High-Speed Rail link (HSL).
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    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 the HSL. Now that the…
  • Dutch Void in Berlin
    DS Landscape Architects made its first design for Tilla Durieux Park in 1995. The park, located next to Potsdamer Platz in the reconstructed centre of Berlin, has just been officially opened.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The commission was the result of a competition, organised by Berlin city authorities, to design two parks. The first, Henriëtte-Herz-Park, was completed last year. But as the second park was to span a rail tunnel, still under construction, and w…
February 15, 2002
  • Dutch Toytown
    While the renovation of the neighbouring Rijksmuseum is held up as an example of quality development, the controversy surrounding the Stedelijk Museum is a prime illustration of how it shouldn't be done.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Background Early 1990s. Four architects - Rem Koolhaas, Wim Quist, Carel Weeber and Robert Venturi - are invited to make proposals to improve the Stedelijk Museum. Robert Venturi's proposal wins. 1993. The extension project is deemed too ambitious. T…
July 3, 2000
  • The Politics of Restoration
    On Sunday May 14 the Balie in Amsterdam held a conference about the master plan for the village of Lifta near Jerusalem. The title of the conference was Reconstruction of Memory. Micha de Haas reports.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    'A friend of my mother used to live in this house. Hanging from the windowsills of her lovely house were the most beautiful flowerpots. As children we often secretly tried to pick the flowers, but she always saw us and said, »Carry these bags upstair…
June 6, 2000
  • The Flood
    As everyone knows by now, the subject of the second International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, which kicked off Friday a week ago, is water. Besides lectures, conferences and publications, no fewer than five main exhibitions are open. What’s on display and what can we expect?
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Las PalmasThe spectacle begins even before you reach the door of Las Palmas. A big blue Flood Stairs draws visitors up the outside of the building to the third floor, the venue for two of the exhibitions.The Dutch Water City highlights the tradition …
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