Articles Tagged with ''Netherlands''

The Mirror House

August 16, 2014

Project Size: 1,290 square feet Program: Architect Johan Selbing and landscape architect Anouk Vogel conceived the Mirror House in 2006 as a winning entry in a competition to design experimental single-family houses for a new housing development. The brief for the competition, titled De Eenvoud ('simplicity'), called for designs with a strong relationship to the site. After winning the competition, the designers then had to find a client themselves, and construction began in 2012. Location: The house is located in a clearing in the Noorderplassen-West forest outside Almere, a city east of Amsterdam known for experimental residential projects. Solution: The

Villa Kogelhof

Putting Down Roots: A Dutch design team infuses a sweeping, minimalist aesthetic into a home with an ambitious sustainable program.

Tracy Metz

April 16, 2014

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In a gravity-defying act of daredevil modernism, a villa in the Dutch province of Zeeland seemingly floats above the surroundings it was named after—the former 60-acre Kogelhof farm.

De Rotterdam

Bringing XL Back Home: Having completed huge projects in Asia, Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture apply their strategies for building extra-large to the small city in which they are based.

Hugh Pearman

March 16, 2014

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When I went to Rotterdam to see the largest single building in The Netherlands, the eponymous De Rotterdam by OMA, it reminded me of something. But I couldn't put my finger on it.

Superkubus Exodus

Tracy Metz

February 15, 2014

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A young Dutch firm turns a difficult building from the 1980s into a home for a surprising group of residents: ex-convicts.

Villa V

August 16, 2013

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For a villa near Zuid-Kennemerland National Park in the Netherlands, the clients wanted a home as unique as the neighboring dune landscape.

Broken Light

Tracy Metz

August 16, 2012

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The Atjehstraat was just an ordinary street in Ka'ten'drecht, a hardscrabble neighborhood in Rotterdam’s old harbor area, where immigrants and young people have taken the place of sailors and prostitutes. Now it is a special street, thanks to the Broken Light project of artist and lighting designer Rudolf Teunissen and his firm Daglicht & Vorm (Daylight & Form). The project covers sidewalks in a wavy, underwater-like pattern of soft light, while adorning the facades of rental apartments in strips of light that look like pilasters. The overall effect is to create an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity. Broken Light originated

The H House

In Maastricht, the Netherlands, Wiel Arets designs the H House, an irregularly shaped glass pavilion.

Ingrid Spencer

June 16, 2011

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“I’m happy with my wife,” says Dutch architect Wiel Arets, “because we are comfortable together and yet she still challenges me.

Villa in the Dunes

October 16, 2010

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Built for a couple and located in an area of Southern Holland notable for its extensive sand dunes, this house was designed to both embrace and stand out from the landscape.

Project X - Ren' Van Zuuk Architekten - Record Houses 2010 -

Jane Kolleeny

April 19, 2010

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Record Houses 2010: Mountain House Pittman Dowell Residence Project X Tree House Villa Vals Woodstock Farm Well Hall Project Specs Project X Almere, The Netherlands Ren' Van Zuuk Architekten << Return to article the People Client: René van Zuuk & Marjo Körner Architect: Ren' Van Zuuk Architekten Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Office: René van Zuuk Architekten b.v., Almere / NL Design: René van Zuuk Structural Engineer: Van de Laar, Eindhoven / NL Photographer(s): Christian Richters the Products Walls: Rockwool; Alvon; Rigips; Calduran; Cembonit Floors: Unidek Roof: Dow Corning; Hertalan Ventilation: Stork Plumbing: Duravit