Country: Netherlands
Places of Modern Architecture to Visit: 46
Community versus individuality: within post-war urbanism: Amsterdam Osdorp was built in the 1960ties and is since a few years in a process of urban renewal. The ambition of the program […] |
In Osdorp, southwest of Amsterdam, major changes took place to transform a vacant zone into a residential district connected to the existing housing area alongside it. One part of the […] |
The new premises of the Academic Centre for Dentistry is situated on the ambitious Southern Axis development corridor (Zuidas), in full view of the A10 motorway. They consist of a […] |
The Oeverpad apartment complex is splendidly located on the edge of the Sloterplas and within walking distance of the Sloterpark. The brief called for a closed building block four to […] |
The Architecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute. In the vicinity of Renzo Piano’s […] |
The cultural building consists of an ellipse shape, with the upper two floors slightly displaced in relation to the ground floor. This provides a covered entrance area located in a […] |
The Booster pump station is located on the Zeeburgereiland in Amsterdam. The building accommodates three Booster pumps, which collects all the sewage of Amsterdam East and passes it on to […] |
In Borneo-Sporenburg Amsterdam – the most compact new housing district in The Netherlands – two dwellings have been designed that aim for the greatest possible spaciousness and versatility within a limited […] |
This distinctive loft is located on the first floor of a historic warehouse and monument on the Brouwersgracht in the center of Amsterdam. The apartment is designed by Remco Wilcke […] |
Café-restaurant OPEN is a simple, pure, transparent volume. It fits precisely onto the disused railway bridge at the Westerdokskade in Amsterdam. The undulation of the pivoting windows results in an elegant glazed façade, […] |
CitizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens their first hotel at Schiphol Airport in the second quarter of 2008. The concept of the hotel is to cut out […] |
This is a major development of apartments for sale commissioned by ING Real Estate, which has been master-planned by urban designer Ton Schaap and Geurst & Schulze Architecten bv. The […] |
The RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre is to be extended with a new building, Elicium (from Elysium, meaning a delightful place). Its lower component, the Expo Foyer or ‘Ballroom’, hovers […] |
The Rietveld Academy of Art has been expanded with a studio building of nine storeys including the basement. Its north facade, which overlooks the old building, is fully transparent so […] |
This seventy meters high apartment tower is situated on the dam towards the KNSM Island, in the former docklands of Amsterdam. The tower has a regular facade composition with a […] |
The master plan for Haveneiland (IJburg) consists of a grid of roads, waterways and blocks. A number of different architectural offices fleshed out the designs for each block. KCAP Architects […] |
With a view to a canal on the Grote Rietland of IJburg the site provided a unique opportunity for a family to live in a free-standing villa within 20 minutes […] |
The headquarter offices for the ING Group occupies a long, narrow site adjacent to the motorway ring around Amsterdam. The location is at the junction of two areas, the cosmopolitan […] |
The Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer housing development, which was erected in the nineteen-seventies based on CIAM principles under the direction of Siegfried Nassuth, has been being overhauled since the mid-nineteen-nineties due to a […] |
In some projects, the process is so intertwined with the end result that the story behind it is almost literally explained by the house itself. The monumental canal house at […] |
This former shop in a monumental canal house is renovated and refurnished to an open and very distinctive loft. The challenge of the design was on one hand to make […] |
In this corner house, all floors are interconnected in a continuous flow. The house takes maximum advantage of the exceptional views of its rugged, industrial environment. Lofthouse 1 is the […] |
In 1997, 3XN won the international competition for the new centre for modern music and jazz in Amsterdam, positioned at the tip of the Oosterlijke Handelskade pier, just a short […] |
An immense green building is located about 15 minutes walk from Amsterdam Central Station. The fascinating construction – often compared to a ship – is located above the IJ Tunnel. […] |
This cycle and pedestrian bridge is the longest in the Netherlands, spanning the Rijn Kanaal in the IJburg district of Amsterdam. The result of a close collaboration between architects and engineers, […] |
VMX Architects has been commissioned to design a new GA Terminal for Schiphol Airport. GA (General Aviation) is the international name for private and business flights. The new building will […] |
The OZW health care and wellbeing training institute is a new landmark for the architectural landscape of the VU University. It embodies an innovative training concept that combines intermediate and […] |
The pavilion is situated on the Lloydplein along the river Y in Amsterdam. It is a freestanding object framed on three sides by several large complexes. It has spacious views towards the […] |
The Piet Hein Tunnel is part of the continuing development of the eastern area of Amsterdam and is situated in the midst of several new building projects. This project consists […] |
Residence Rieteiland Oost opens onto the IJ with a view over the Diemerzeedijk. Maximum use is made of this open view by raising the living area to the bell level and […] |
An old industrial warehouse of 1100 m2, at one of the most beautiful spots along the Amsterdam waterfronts, was transformed by CUBE architecten and SOLUZ architecten to an attractive café […] |
Is true architecture not the design of emptiness; the space between walls, floors and ceilings, between the materials themselves? Does the opposite not lead inevitably to flamboyance and ostentation, to […] |
In August 2013 the City of Amsterdam gave the go-ahead for the redevelopment of an old store room under one of their offices on Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam into a multifunctional […] |
The Erick van Egeraat office tower is part of an expressive “High-Rise” urban development south of Amsterdam, named Zuid-As. Located in the proximity of the city centre and with direct […] |
Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter was selected by Schiphol Real Estate (SRE) to design a new office building for transavia.com at the corner of business park Schiphol East. When designing for […] |
The new building for the University of Amsterdam’s Science Centre (FNWI) is the product of a collaboration between Architectuurstudio HH, MVSA, and Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau, which acted as the coordinating […] |
The Van Gogh Museum consists of two buildings: the main structure (I) designed by Gerrit Rietveld and opened in 1973, and the Exhibition Wing (II) by Kisho Kurokawa completed in […] |
The Van Gogh Museum consists of two buildings: the main structure (I) designed by Gerrit Rietveld and opened in 1973, and the Exhibition Wing (II) by Kisho Kurokawa completed in […] |
The housing complex ‘Downtown’ stands in a line with the densification project ‘New York/Amsterdam ‘ Uptown’. The urban design scheme for this site proposed four urban villas with apartments on […] |
The headquarters building for Ernst & Young is located at the gateway to the Vivaldi-park area of the new Zuidas district, south of Amsterdam. Commissioned by ING, the tower establishes […] |
This water villa was designed for two clients who both wanted an individual house for themselves. The houseboat has two levels, the upper level which has a frame around glides […] |
This tautly designed houseboat floats in the Amstel river of Amsterdam. The design has, unlike most floating houses, a very contemporary design without losing the characteristic appearance of the typical […] |
Openness as design concept: The minimal amount of materials used, glass, steel and concrete, results in maximum openness for the façade. The building with a total surface of 6000 m2 […] |
This building was the first large complex realized by MVRDV. The client, a large housing corporation, had made general studies of the arrangement of 100 units for elderly people, as […] |
Bright illuminated and dark at the same time, the Ziggo Dome is an impressive concert hall that will not go unnoticed when passing by. The building is covered with nearly […] |
Zoku Amsterdam, the first to open, is situated in the ‘Metropool building’ at the Weesperstraat, a former office building by architect Arthur Staal. When you come from the city on […] |