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Tracy Metz

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Dutch Ministry of Agriculture

B30 by KAAN Architecten

The Hague
Tracy Metz
July 31, 2017
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A former building for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade becomes an inviting meeting and work place.


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The Edge

The Edge

The Next Wave: A smart building raises the bar for technology, innovation, and sustainability.
Tracy Metz
August 1, 2016
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Amsterdam’s Zuidas financial district is distinguished by the work of an impressive roster of architects, such as Toyo Ito, Rafael Viñoly, and Pei Cobb Freed, all of whose designs fit into a traditionally corporate atmosphere.


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Generator Amsterdam

Generator Amsterdam by DesignAgency and IDEA Ontwerp

Amsterdam
Tracy Metz
June 1, 2016
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Breathing new life into old buildings, a hospitality brand offers lodging that blends the informality of a hostel with the comforts of a boutique hotel.


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Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis

Double dutch masterwork: A design team digs down to artfully connect a historic museum to a building across the way.
Tracy Metz
February 15, 2015
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A design team digs down to artfully connect a historic museum to a building across the way. In the hands of Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk, the Mauritshuis, a 17th-century mansion in The Hague that later became the Netherlands' first museum, has undergone an impressive expansion.


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Building As Ornament: Iconography In Contemporary Architecture

Tracy Metz
October 16, 2014
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By Michiel van Raaij. nai010 Publishers, May 2014, 240 pages, $25. For more than a century, ornament in architecture was anathema in the Calvinist Netherlands—and elsewhere too. In his book Building as Ornament: Iconography in Contemporary Architecture, Michiel van Raaij, who is the editor in chief of the online architecture platform Architectenweb, interviews 10 well-known architects and architectural historians to reveal how this attitude has changed since the 1990s. The moralism of modernism, though, has not yet completely disappeared: “A successful ornament,” writes van Raaij, “represents a virtue and explains the function, status, structure and context of the building.” An
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Invisible-Kitchen

Invisible Kitchen

i29 Interior Architects uses decorative wall panels and an optical trick to create a vanishing kitchen inside a Paris apartment.
Tracy Metz
September 16, 2014
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In one particularly humorous episode, the old television program Candid Camera tried to sell a house that had no toilets. (It was remarkable how many potential buyers didn't notice the defect.)


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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.


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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.


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Tyrolean Festival Hall

Peak Performance: A concert hall carves its own niche in the Austrian Alps while bowing to the neighboring midcentury playhouse and the breathtaking landscape beyond.
Tracy Metz
October 16, 2013
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In the picturesque Austrian village of Erl, just east of the German border, where the rugged Alps seem to descend from the heavens to meet the undulating valley below, a striking, angular structure, the Tyrolean Festspielhaus, or Festival Hall, pierces the landscape that inspired it.


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Loft MM

Beyond Boundaries: The Belgian firm C.T. Architects' solution for a client who uses a wheelchair shows a keen sense of spatial relationships and materials with universal appeal.
Tracy Metz
September 16, 2013
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It can be done: a wheelchair-friendly environment that in no way resembles the typical one. 


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Is the tipping point finally here on ditching cubicle curtains? For at least the past decade, healthcare designers and facility managers have been predicting the demise of privacy curtains in hospital and clinical spaces. Many point to the rise of single-patient rooms which afford their own privacy. 

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