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Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.In this article 5 fictitious projects are discussed; two in Amsterdam, two in Rotterdam and one in The Hague. Prepare to be amazed, and perhaps, slightly confused. Euromast by Van den Broek & Bakema.…View →
50 Euros for the Pleasures: Sex Workers in Red-light Districts , by Oliwia Jackowska.A sex worker sits behind her window in Amsterdam’s red-light district. Source: Paul Vreeker / Reuters.…View →
Interview: Maarten van Kesteren, by Aimee Baars.Maarten van Kesteren graduated from the Architecture track at TU Delft in 2014 and after working at several architecture firms, set up his own studio in Amsterdam.…View →
Smooth City, by René Boer.In the book, you dedicate some time to your own city, Amsterdam. Can you tell us how the Smooth City operates in a historically rich, textured, and complex context, like De Wallen in Amsterdam? RB: It occurs in many different forms.…View →
Like it's normal., by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.Today I visited Amsterdam. When walking through the capital, it does Amsterdam well, there was a unexpected peaceful atmosphere. Without effort, I found a green patch of grass in the beautiful Vondelpark.…View →
Take It Seriously, by Federico Ruiz.North façade of the Inntel Hotel Amsterdam-Zaandam. / Courtesy of WAM Architects. Van Winden is a soft spoken, 65-year-old man. When he opens the door of his office, the first thing I notice is his shirt.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/01. Published September 2019.Bouwkunde. alumni, at his own studio in Amsterdam. She interviewed him about finding his own signature style and setting priorities when running your own firm.…View →
Domestic calamities, by Federico Ruiz.Later, the identity of the mysterious woman is revealed: “I couldn’t find a home when I arrived in Amsterdam. She saved me from becoming homeless.”. C. lives in the countryside.…View →
Grief or Change, by Emilie Stecher.Buying became traveling – and taking one hour flights from Amsterdam to Zurich were more convenient than going the extra mile by train.…View →
An ode to the pavement, by Margot Hols.Remnants are still visible in the city centre of Delft, Amsterdam and The Hague. To prevent too much chaos in the street-image, the municipality of Delft was the first municipality who decided upon some rules for these pavements in 1573.…View →
Shifting Utopias, by Federico Ruiz.“I studied from 1950 until '58,” says Herman Hertzberger, 87, from his office in Amsterdam, “At that time, in the Faculty, there was still a sort of battle between the.…View →
Talking Spaces, by Federico Ruiz.For example, the Provos counterculture movement of Amsterdam, founded by students in the 1960s, continuously provoked public authorities with humorous and non-violent happenings.…View →
The Art of the Commute, by Alessandro Rognoni.In the city of Milan, this interest came to fruition after WWII, when Amsterdam-born Bob Noorda was asked by architect Franco Albini to design the graphics for the new Metro1.…View →
Shit it out for a Diploma, by Oliwia Jackowska .These hundreds of mostly Architects, with a few Urbanists, Landscape Architects, Building Technicians, Managers and Data Scientists are looking for jobs between Delft, Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam, competing between each other and graduates from…View →
By Product, Reversibility, Tangible and Intangible Longevity , by Anouk Fontaine.That is one of the lines of approach of RAAAF offices in Amsterdam, as they focus on showing and claiming the reversibility of spaces: the Deltawerk: the construction no longer in use, is now a monumental sculpture and acts as a remnant of the Dutch past…View →
BK Talks 1: on race, gender and fairy tales, by Federico Ruiz.After this, the speakers were presented: Lyongo Juliana, an architect and director of OZ Caribbean in Amsterdam, Amy Thomas and Roberto Rocco, both teachers at BK, Anagha Yoganand, a graduate student of the Building Technology track, Aart Oxenaar, director…View →
Modernism's Secret in the East, by Badar Haq.This was the case in the developments of Bijlmermeer, a suburban satellite town of Amsterdam that did not take the spirit of the place and culture of users into account.…View →
Incredible Nottingham, by Dorsa Ghaemi, Francien Fons, Jolt Wiersma and Sun Ah Hwang.Balloon Wood – Systematic Construction, 1960’s: "Balloon wood was a neighborhood made of high-rise buildings with gallery-accesses, very similar to the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer project.…View →
Explore Lab Fictions, by Camille Billottet, Anne de Zeeuw & Aimee Baars.I owe a lot to perfumer Fredrik Dalman, of the Amsterdam based Maison Mona Di Orio, a man of great creativity, talent and patience.…View →
Promoting a positive Relation-to-Self through Recognition in Architectural Design, by Jeremy Hill.Jeremy Hill is a third-year undergraduate architecture student and is currently completing a minor in practical philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.…View →
Olympic Architects, by Edgars Jane.In 1928Olympic Games, in Amsterdam, it was also allowed, for the first time, to sell the works; a decision that would be one of the main cornerstones for closure of the Games.…View →
Interview: The Book and The Building, by Louis Lousberg, Koen Mulder & Christopher Clarkson.Louis: Well, what we do a few times a year, a delegation of the committee goes to Amsterdam to the library, Architectura Natura. and because we have a budget to buy new books (a reasonably strong budget) we change the set of people that go there because…View →