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May 30, 2006
  • 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.
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    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…
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).
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    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…
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…
June 11, 2001
  • Future Materials for Architecture
    Syntens, an 'innovation network' for entrepreneurs that advises on product innovation, last month held a symposium devoted to new materials in architecture. There were lectures by Els Zijlstra and Adriaan Beukers and the afternoon ended with a discussion chaired by Tom Bouws of Syntens.
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    Zijlstra, architect and founder of Materia, an independent advisory office for the selection and development of architectural products and materials, discussed the use of materials by Mike Guyer and Annette Gigon from Switzerland. These architects ar…
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…
April 9, 2000
  • Das Meist Besondere Gebäude Berlins
    Admittedly, it’s all taking longer than planned, but construction of the new Dutch embassy by OMA/Rem Koolhaas is now proceeding apace and will finish in October 2003. ArchiNed has this preview of what’s shaping up to be a spectacular building.
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    The embassy's location couldn't be more Dutch. It stands on the Rolandufer overlooking the River Spree - the Berlin equivalent to the Amstel waterway in Amsterdam - next to a sluice complex similar to the one beside the Carré Theatre in Amsterda…
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