Places of Modern Architecture to Visit: 44
4 Towers Osdorp | Wiel Arets ArchitectsIn 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 […] |
Academic Centre for Dentistry | Benthem Crouwel ArchitectsThe 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 […] |
Apartment Building De Zilverreiger | 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 […] |
Architecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) | 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 […] |
Bijlmer Park Theater | 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 […] |
Booster Pump Station East | 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 […] |
Borneo Houses | 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 […] |
Brouwersgracht Apartment | 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 | 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 Amsterdam | 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 […] |
De Prinsendam | 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 […] |
Elicium Amsterdam RAI | 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 […] |
IJ Tower | 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 […] |
IJburg Block 11 | 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 […] |
IJburg House | 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 […] |
ING House | 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 […] |
Junky Hotel | 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 […] |
Keizersgracht Residence | 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 […] |
Kloveniersburgwal Loft | 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 […] |
Lofthouse I | 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 […] |
Music Building | 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 […] |
NEMO Science Center | 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. […] |
Nesciobrug | 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, […] |
New VVIP Terminal | 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 […] |
OZW Institute | 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 […] |
Pavilion Lloydplein | 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 […] |
Piet Hein Tunnel Service Building | 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 | 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 […] |
Restaurant Stork | 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 […] |
Synagogue LJG | 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 […] |
T Park | 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 Rock | 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 […] |
TransPort | 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 […] |
UvA Faculty of Science | 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 […] |
Van Gogh Museum-Exhibition Wing | 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 […] |
Van Gogh Museum-Main Structure | 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 […] |
Veltmanstraat Housing | 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 […] |
Vivaldi Tower | 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 […] |
Watervilla Amsteldijk | 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 […] |
Watervilla de Omval | 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 […] |
Westerdok Apartment Building | 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 […] |
WoZoCo Apartments | 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 […] |
Ziggo Dome | 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 | 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 […] |