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EkskurzijaBelgija - Nizozemska

8.maj - 14. maj 2014

seminar Glažar

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Addresses of accommadation

Lens

Burges

Antwerpen

Amsterdam

Warmoesstraat 14, 1012 JDDistance from city centre: 0.5kmTel. :+31 (0)20 627 74 99

Youth Hostel Meetingpoint

Zone d'activité - Rue Beaumont62950 NOYELLES-GODAULT

CERISE Lens

Reception Opening Times : 6.30am - 9pmTel.: + 33 3.21.20.77.76

Ezelstraat 47-49, Bruges, B-8000Tel.: 0032(0)50333133

Snuffel Backpacker Hostel

Lange Leemstraat 95, 200018Tel: +32 (03) 238 4782

Boomerang Hostel

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JourneyDay 1 (8.5.):

Lens - 21:30h

Ljubljana - 13h

Bruselj - 19h

Benetke Airport

Airport

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Day 2 (9.5.):

Kortrijk

Journey

Oudenaarde

Bruges - 18:30h

Buda Art Centre

Kerselare Chapel

Concert Hall

Musee du Louvre - LensLens

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Day 3 (10.5.):

Bruges

Tielt

Gent

Antwerpen - 19h

Commerce, workshops, offices and appartments

HollainhofPharmacy MMarket Hall & Central Squares

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JourneyDay 4 (11.5.):

Antwerpen

Amsterdam - 20:30h

Rotterdam

Halsteren

Maison GuiettePavillion museum MiddelheimAwning KielThe city MuseumSt Felix Warehouse

The Moses Bridge - Sunken Bridge

Hilltop staircaseSchiecentrale 4B Towerheadquarters for engineering firm IMD De RotterdamUrban Podium RotterdamBlack PearlRDM Innovation DeckRDM Droogdok 17KunsthalDidden VillageThe Centraal Station

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JourneyDay 5 - 7 (12.-14.5.):

Amsterdam

Diefdijk

Headquarters for G - Star RA WUnited NudeSILODAMWoZoCoParkrand BuildingBorneoDe OverkantRijksmuseum in AmsterdamStills Flagship Store

Second World War bunker (BUNKER 599)

Glass Farm

Schijndel

Ljubljana - 00:30h

Bruselj - 17:30h

Benetke Airport

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LensRue Paul Bert 174

Musee du Louvre - Lens SANAAThe Louvre-Lens boasts neither the palatial architecture of its mothership nor the showy lines of the Guggenheim in Bilbao. That's not to say the new museum is anything less than stunning. It is a low-slung, horizontal structure comprising a central square and four rectangles, attached at various corners and with slightly curved walls to soften the lines. The shimmering façade alternates glass and anodised aluminium. From the air, the building resembles the original Louvre with one wing twisted behind. Transparen-

cy is a major theme for this museum, and the glass-enclosed entrance hall offers a view of the park and city, while clear glass tubes house the bookstore and cafeteria. A spiral staircase leads to an underground area where the public can observe the stor-age and restoration of artworks, part of the museum's educational aspect. At ground level, the most spectacular exhibition hall is the Galerie du Temps, a 120-m-long room with polished aluminum walls.

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KortrijkBuda Art Centre51N4EThe BUDA island encompasses the dense city heart of Kortrijk, mirroring the cities’ rich but idiosyncratic history. In its endeavor to gradually excel as the City of Design, Kortrijk spares no opportunity to score on the inter-national design ladder. The latest evidence of this striving is the BUDA factory, a textile dye plant originating from 1924, with no particular worthwhile spatial or even historical features. The sole challenge of the BUDA factory is to offer an extremely large and generous space for cultural expression in its broadest mean-ing and built at an extremely low cost. The programmatic infill is consciously considered as secondary. Two hollow pentagonal spac-es, one outside and one inside, introduce an interiorized sequence of light, scale and indeterminacy. The outside volume performs as an antechamber, rupturing with its ambig-uous presence the tight row of buildings that frame it. The inside pentagon juxtaposes a series of studios, exhibition spaces and

workshops, cumulating into a rooftop terrace as the sole encounter with the context and the cityscape of Kortrijk. In brief, the BUDA factory is a tool to look with, not an object

to look at. It is a collection of found and added spaces - of an unadapted nature - allowing for innumerably diverse audiences to probe for whatever they are looking for.

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OudenaardePapelosstraat

Kerselare Chapel Juliaan LampensKerselare Pilgrimage Chapel was project for Edelare National achitecture competi-tion in collaboration with architectural pro-fessor Rutger Langaaskens in year 1961.The building materials for this pilgrimage chapel in the Flemish Aedennes are limited to concrete and glass. The roof consists of two layers of concrete separated from one another by beams. The roof also extends 14 meters over the forecourt, sheltering the pilgrims, who are able to follow the Mass through the huge glass wall. A water featuresupplied by run-off from the roof, separates the secular and liturgical areas. The altar of the chapel is a concrete cube accentuated by a skylight, and the benches are con-crete beams. The choir can be reached via a staircase built inside a concrete cylinder. The entrance were originally large concrete swinging doors located on both sidewalls.

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Concert HallRobbrecht en Däem ArchitectenBeing the cultural capital of Europe in 2002 was an ideal opportunity for Bruges to proof that it evolves in time despite its historical, preserved character. With this glorious year in sight, some architectural fireworks were realised in the centre. Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem were commissioned for the construction of the hypermodern Con-certgebouw (concerthall), after winning a design competition in 1999. The design criteria for the concert building related to openness and adventure, innovation and a modern image but also to safety and func-tionality. The result is a sometimes surprising and creative ode to Bruges and the city's dreams. The building has an overall size of 120 metres by 50 metres. An eye-catch-ing feature is the so-called 'Lantern Tower', which is slightly separate from the main volume and is 28 metres and eight storeys high and overlooks the Zand. In this tower is a chamber music hall with seats for 300.

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TieltAdolf Loosveldtstraat 9

Commerce, workshops, offices and appartmentsKersten Geers David Van SeverenThe party walls of a lot in Tielt are raised to their maximum height. On the side toward the street the elevated wall forms a wide entrance. Within this frame stand two iden-tical buildings, mirror images opposite one another, thus defining an inner courtyard. The block on the street side contains a store and reception area; the block at the back of the lot contains the less public section, the logistics spaces. The twin buildings are con-structed as matter-of-factly as possible out of the typical range of industrial techniques and materials. The structure consists of thin steel columns and beams, and steel deck floors. Both are clad with a pronounced curtain façade, partly filled in by glass, part-ly by polycarbonate panels. The courtyard defined by the two volumes functions as a parking and entrance zone.. The remaining space between the footprint of the build-ings and the lot lines becomes a whimsical garden, as a complement to their regularity.

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Gent Sint-Martens-Latemar

Pharmacy MStudio Caan ArchitectenThe pharmacy used to be located at an old farm on the existing parcel. The parcel is situated next to the main road populat-ed by a diverse array of types of building.Due to the outdated facilities and limited potential of the farm, it was a logical step to demolish the farm and to start from scratch. At the front side (Keistraat) the new volume has been placed on the same border line as the old farm to integrate the new construction into the existing context. The program of the pharmacy defined the design of the building. The ground floor lo-cates all the necessary facilities for a mod-ern pharmacy, such as an extensive sales area, a night safe, a preparation area…The surrounded glass wall cre-ates a light and transparency which leads to a greater accessibility.At the first floor a private space is located with bathroom, kitchen/ dining/ sleep-ing area. The terrace and green roof el-

evate the entire space. The green roof is also a visible mark from the street side. The design and material choices (glass, dark grey bricks) form the modern shape of the building, which we consider to be well integrated in its surrounding context.

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Market Hall & Central SquaresBelgian studios Robbrecht en Däem and Marie-Jose Van Hee

Gent

After years of slow degradation, the historical city center of Ghent was occupied by a des-olate parking lot surrounded by three gothic spires, a situation that prompted the city to hold a competition to re-activate the space. Local practice Robbrecht en Daem Archi-tecten in collaboration with Marie-José van Hee Architecten proposed somewhat of their own program, going beyond the competition brief to not only provide event space for the public but also reinstate the presence of the traditional architecture. Occupying a site of 24,000 m2, the new ‘market hall’ mathemat-ically derives it profile from the adjacent city hall and assumes a height equivalent to its neighboring structures – always lower than the surrounding towers as a way to indirectly call attention to their presence. The overall form recalls the vernacular of the area and time, clad in natural wood tiles covered by a thin layer of glass that subtly reflects the sky on the surface. Four large concrete columns

hoist the steep-gabled canopy structure above the ground, creating a deep interior space lit from hundred of open silvers in the roof plan. the second level below contains a market place next to a green area, integrated with the multi-use hall above. Rainwater is collected and reused with the program be-low, lending to a sustainable construction of local material and natural resource collection.

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Gent HollainhofNeutelings Riedijk

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This project in the centre of Gent combines the qualities of urbanity and density with those of seclusion and tranquillity by updat-ing the typology of the beguinage. The result is a complex that oscillates between pub-lic and private, open and closed, and large and small scale. The dwellings are grouped into two strips composed of fifteen blocks that each contain eight to ten dwellings. The area in between has been left as a large green outdoor space. Each dwelling has its own walled garden with a door opening on to the courtyard or a large roof terrace.

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AntwerpenMaison GuietteLe CorbusierGuiette House designed by Le Corbusi-er's in 1926 is considered one of his most unknown works. It's an early and classic example of the "International Style" and built in 1927 as the residence and studio of the painter René Guiette. The building has a cellar, ground floor, first and second floor, and a roof terrace on the third floor (at the back). The large window on the top of the front facade is from the studio of the painter. It was once inhabited by Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester who supposedly despised architecture tourists gazing at her house, although she had restored the house in 1985 by Georg-es Baines and built an extension next to it.

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AntwerpenPavillion museum MiddelheimRobbrecht en Däem ArchitektenThe Middelheim Museum is an open-air mu-seum for modern sculpture in a 27 ha park, with works by, among others, Jean Arp, Dan Graham, Per Kirkeby, Henry Moore, Panamarenko, François Pompon, Auguste Rodin, Joep Van Lieshout and Ossip Za-dkine. To house smaller sculptures, more fragile works from the collection and tem-porary exhibitions, Renaat Braem (1910 - 2001), one of the most important Belgian post-war architects, was commissioned to design an exhibition hall. Renaat Braem, in

1936 apprenticed to Le Corbusier, was in-fluenced by the CIAM ideology. Throughout his career he saw architecture as the art of organising space in order to liberate human kind. His architecture gradually adopted a more organic style, which is apparent in this pavilion. The design is based on har-monic unity and organic interwovenness of architecture and nature. The shape of the skylights emphasises even more the ex-pressive sculptural character of the pavilion.

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AntwerpenAwning KielB ArchitektenIn 2003 B-architecten won the competition for the redevelopment of Abdijstraat and Kielplein. Kielplein is the area at Sint Ber-nardsesteenweg infront of the TIR shop-pingcomplex which is being constructed at the moment. The proposal is a large awning on the square which will offer quite a clear identity to the neighbourhood of Kiel. The awning measures 92m x 13m and it varies from 12m to 6m in height. This light and yet urban awning will become a beaken for the commercial crossing of the TIR complex and Abdijstraat. The sheltered square consists of stops for public transport, taxi’s and bicy-cles. The intriguing roof for Kiel will become a well lit beaken at night. The shopping axis between the existing Abdijstraat and the planned TIR complex will fiind its com-pletion through the connection of the new square. The connection will be undertaken by seamlessly levelling the pavements, the square and the TIR complex in order to cre-

ate a continuous public space with inner and outer spaces. The construction was com-pleted in April 2007. Awning Kiel is a col-laboration between B-architecten, Stramien and the engineering office Ney&Partners.

Abdijstraat, Kiel

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AntwerpenThe city MuseumNeutelings Riedijk

Hanzestedenplaats 1

The MAS (Museum aan de Stroom) is locat-ed on an island (het Eilandje) in the heart of the old harbour close to the city centre. It will house 3 different collections (the Volkskun-demuseum, the National Maritime museum and partly Het Vleeshuis). The new museum was a winning design of an open architecture competition, a 60m high tower with stacked exhibition spaces, in total 10 storeys. Each level is twisted 90 degrees to form a giant spiral. This glazed space becomes a vertical galleria. Elevators guide the visitors to the

top of the building in a journey through the history of Antwerp and through the panora-mas of the city. On the upper floor a restau-rant, a conference room and a sky deck are situated. Square, docks and tower are de-signed to form one continuous space for ex-hibitions and events. The stacked concept refers to the old warehouses where goods were packed and stacked. Now Antwerp's history, traditions, artefacts, stories and ob-jects are stacked in one new warehouse.

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St Felix WarehouseRobbrecht en Däem ArchitectenThe Antwerp City Archives moved to the monumental 1859 warehouse Sint-FelixPa-khuis, completely restored and renovated by Robbrecht en Daem (based in Gent, Belgium) together with Grontmij Vlaanderen. They renovated the whole interior in such a way the internal structure of the building hardly changed and every intervention can be undone. On the ground floor are public functions like library and entrance. The next 4 floors are occupied with archives, kept in 18 separate concrete containers to provide

optimum atmosphere and fire-prevention. The attic is completely refurbished and re-newed to make fit for a new reading hall, meeting rooms and conference halls. The whole roof had to be replaced by a new wooden roof, appended with 3 glass atriums for more daylight. These glass ‘boxes’ are seen from the nearby dock, the Willemdok. The concept of ‘wood’ was subsequent-ly used throughout the interior, for walls, floors and furniture. All furniture was custom made, designed by Robbrecht en Daem.

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HalsterenThe Moses Bridge - Sunken BridgeRO&AD ArchitectsFrom a distance, the Moses Bridge appears to vanish, allowing the viewer to see the flow of the moat uninterrupted. As one approach-es though, the sunken bridge becomes apparent. It splits the waters allowing for a unique walk to the historic sight across the way. This bridge would be very cool to expe-rience firsthand, though I think I would be just a little bit nervous when crossing the moat.Designed by architecture group RO & AD, the bridge is constructed out of Ac-coya wood, a high technology wood that is supposedly harder and more durable than some of the best tropical woods. It is treated with a nontoxic anti-fungal coating.

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RotterdamCarnisselande

Hilltop staircaseNEXT ArchitectsA rusty steel ring is gently draped upon a grass hill in Carnisselande, a Rotterdam suburb. It's a giant circular stair leading the visitor up to a height that allows an unhin-dered view of the horizon and the nearby skyline of Rotterdam. The path makes a continuous movement and thereby draws on the context of the heavy infrastructur-al surrounding of ring road and tram track. While a tram stop represents the end or the start of a journey, the route of the stairway is endless. However, the continuity and end-lessness have a double meaning. Based on the principal of the Möbius strip, the contin-uous route of the stair is a delusion - upside becomes underside becomes upside. It has only one surface and only one bound-ary. The suggestion of a continuous route is therefore, in the end, impossibility. The Elas-tic Perspective is a local art plan for which NEXT architects designed this stair. The project reflects on the ambiguous relation-

ship of the inhabitants of the Rotterdam sub-urb Carnisselande with their mother-town, which is expressed in both attraction and repulsion. "The view on Rotterdam is no-where better, then from Carnisselande" as one of the locals put it. The circular stair of-fers the suburbians a view on the Rotterdam skyline – only a couple of kilometers ahead - but forces them to retrace their steps back into their suburban reality. Rotterdam, by tram just minutes away, but in perception and experience tucked behind infrastruc-ture and noise barriers; far away, so close.

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RotterdamSchiecentrale 4B TowerMei Architecten en StedenbouwersA harbour building to live, work and relax in.Schiecentrale 4b is the final phase in the redevelopment of the former Schiehaven-centrale and surroundings. The combi-nation of office spaces, dwellings, and combined living/working units adds life to the area, which has become the audio-vi-sual centre of Rotterdam in recent years.

Schiecentrale 4b consists of a striking new structure built around the north-west sides of the old Schiecentrale building. The new complex provides the media centre with var-ious types of dwellings, for people closely involved in the audio-visual sector and peo-ple in other creative disciplines who like the port atmosphere still palpable in the area.

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RotterdamHeadquarters for engineering firm IMDStudio Ector Hoogstad Architecten

77 Piekstraat

In conjunction with developer New Indus-try, they tracked down the former steel plant. Renovation of the existing shell of the building soon proved an unrealistic option, in both the technical and financial sense. Finally, a strategy was chosen whereby all the work areas were created on two storeys in air-conditioned zones against the closed end walls. From there, they look back into the hall, in which pavilions with conference areas were created, interlinked by footbridg-es and different types of stairs. The hall itself has become a weakly air-conditioned cavity, which lends itself very well to informal con-sultations, lectures, exhibitions and lunch-ing, for instance. Large new windows in what was originally a closed facade, in com-bination with the existing skylights in the roof, provide daylight and magnificent panoramas over the water. Everything that was already there, such as the steel skeleton, the con-crete floors and the masonry on the facade

were just cleaned. New additions were made using a limited number of materials which are new, but which are very much in keep-ing with the industrial atmosphere; rough wood for stairs, clear glass and sheeting of transparent plastic. This sheeting makes the new walls nicely diffused, and even slightly “absent”. The consistent use of one colour – bright yellow – unites the whole even more.

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RotterdamWilhelminapier

THE MAASBen van BerkelThe 808 meter long bridge has a 139 meter high asymmetrical pylon, earning the bridge its nickname of “The Swan”, however its actual name is the Erasmusbrug (“Erasmus Bridge”). It is a cable bridge hovering across the Nieuwe Maas river. Shortly after the bridge opened to traffic in October 1996, it was discovered the bridge would swing under particularly strong wind conditions. To reduce the trembling, stronger shock dampers were installed.

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RotterdamDe RotterdamOMA - Rem KoolhaasDe Rotterdam is conceived as a vertical city: three interconnected mixed-use tow-ers accommodating offices, apartments, a hotel, conference facilities, shops, restau-rants, and cafes. The project began in 1997. Construction started at the end of 2009, with completion in 2013. The tow-ers are part of the ongoing redevelopment of the old harbour district of Wilhelminapi-er, next to the Erasmus Bridge, and aim to reinstate the vibrant urban activity - trade, transport, leisure - once familiar to the neigh-bourhood. De Rotterdam is named after one of the ships on the Holland America Line, which departed from the Wilhelmi-napier in decades past, carrying thou-sands of Europeans emigrating to the US.

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RotterdamUrban Podium Rotterdam Atelier Kempe ThillSituated between the gothic Sint Lauren-skerk and the Delftsevaart canal, the Grote-kerkplein was formed only during the course of the modernist reconstruction of the city center, which was almost entirely destroyed during WW2. Despite its central location the square hardly plays a role in the city life, as no shopping streets connect it to the rest the public spaces, and only a few facilities are oriented towards the square itself. Therefore the idea emerged to activate the square programmatically as well as spatially through the construction of a small theater pavilion, in order to fill the displeasing vacuum within the city fabric. The built theater podium interprets the task at hand consistently and maybe a lit-tle surprisingly as a mostly urbanistic opera-tion. The existing situation is taken as a start-ing point and improved through a targeted and powerful gesture. A 40m long structure forcefully separates square and canal in or-der to enhance their respective spatial legibility.

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RotterdamBlack PearlZecc Architecten BVThis house takes part of a program of the congregation Rotterdam who wanted to re-vitalize disadvantaged neighbourhoods by selling metier houses to private persons. The renovation of the Rotterdam 'metier house' is turned into an architectural spectacle, where was experimented with time and space. The 100 years old facade of a dwelling in a closed housing unit, is totally painted black. Both masonry, frames and 'windows' are covered with a shiny black oil. This creates a kind of 'shadow' of the original facade. In some places the new transparent windows pierce through the historical facade. The new windows announce a time with a very different way of living. This creates a rela-tionship between the original facade and the new interpretation which become readable. All floors and small rooms behind the old windows run into one spatially contiguous entity. Just like in the façade, also in the in-terior the traces of the past remained visible.

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RotterdamRDM Innovation DeckGroosmanPartnersThe Innovation Dock is housed in a former machine hall in the heart of the Rotterdam harbour. The Innovation Dock is in use by schools and small-scale and innovative companies operating in the market. The idea of the urban shelving unit derived from the unused crane tracks, which proved their strength before. The extra loading capacity is used to double the usable surface of the halls, by 'hanging' the new functions in the existing structure. The first unit is reached by an external staircase and elevator. These are connected to a system of gangways which lead to the several units. The units are at-tached to supporting beams, which are placed in between the crane tracks. They are built up of a steel structure with a light and flexible fill-in. Change of use can be relatively easily realised, and this plug-in system is ex-tendable as well as dismountable. The units open up around the industrial steel structure. Hereby the structure is maximally exhibited.

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RotterdamRDM Droogdok 17PLUS ArchitectenRDM Droogdok 17 concerns the new ac-commodation of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, educational facilities for the University of Higher Education Rotterdam, conference facilities and various office spaces. RDM Droogdok 17 comprises an integral design for the internal modification of the existing structure with a new interior. The existing building was built in 1913 in a formal expressionistic style. The assignment is to fit in the new programme into the monu-mental buidling in a contemporary fashion in

which old en new are interwoven. The used colours en materials, with subtle differenc-es in grades of gloss, texture and colour, bring unity and recognition of the linked new spaces. The generic programmes such as educational and office spaces are executed in pearl white and are stretched between the two specific public spaces which are executed in chocolat brown: the exhibi-tion hall and the auditorium. By doing so they form the head and tail of the design.

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RotterdamKunsthalOMA - Rem KoolhaasA complex, bold and amazing exposition space, a museum without collection, the Kunsthal presents culture in the widest sense of the word: old art, new art, de-sign, photography - from elitist to popular. The site presented a dual condition: the southern edge is bordered by the Maas-boulevard, a 'highway' on top of a dike. The northern side, a level lower, faces the Museum Park - conventional contemplation. With these given, and the fact that these crossings would divide the square site into

4 parts, the challenge was: how to design a museum as 4 autonomous projects - a sequence of contradictory experiences which would nevertheless form a contin-uous spiral circuit.The pedestrian ramp is split, with a glass wall separating the out-side, which is open to the public, from the inside, which is part of the circuit. A second ramp, running parallel and reversed, is ter-raced to accommodate an auditorium, and beneath it the restaurant. On the level where the 2 ramps cross, is the main entrance.

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Didden VillageMVRDV

Rotterdam

The first realization in MVRDV's home town Rotterdam is a rooftop house extension. On top of an existing monumental house and atelier, the bedrooms are positioned as separate houses, optimizing the privacy of every member of the family. The houses are distributed in such a way that a series of plazas, streets and alleys appear as a mini-village on top of the building. Parapet walls with windows surround the new vil-lage. Trees, tables, open-air showers and benches are added, optimizing the rooftop life. By finishing all elements with a blue po-ly-urethane coating a new 'heaven' appears. It creates a crown on top of the monument. The addition can be seen as a prototype for a further densification of the old and existing city. It adds a roof life to the city. It explores the costs for the beams, infrastructure, and extra finishes, and it ultimately aims to be lower than the equivalent ground price.

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The Centraal StationTeam CS (West 8, Meyer Van Schooten, Benthem Crouwel)

RotterdamStationsplein 1

Centraal Station is one of the most im-portant transport hubs in The Netherlands. With 110,000 passengers a day the pub-lic transport terminal has as many travellers as Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The Rot-terdam’s new station is taking shape and its official opening is scheduled for March 2014. Rotterdam Central is part of the Eu-ropean network of high-speed railway lines and a nodal point in the city itself. This dual relationship, with the city and with Europe, gives the station and the station precinct a special dimension. The station hall now runs from Proveniersplein on the north side to Stationsplein on the south – in other words, the 250-metre-wide platform roof forms a whole with the main concourse and the train travellers’ tunnel. The new building’s shape expresses the internal logistics of this transport hub. Marking the onset of Rotter-dam’s ‘cultural axis’, the new Grand Central Station points the way to the city’s heart.

“The new station is not only larger, bright-er and more orderly than the former, but also has an international feel; it beautiful-ly complements both the efficiency of the hi-speed stop and Rotterdam city’s bold ambitions for urban development and re-newal,” said the architects in a statement.

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AmsterdamOsdorp , Reimerswaalstraat 1

WozocoMVRDVThis housing for elderly people is probably one of the most published architecture proj-ects of its times and also from Holland. Its very powerful image is the result of urban pol-icy: the architects couldn't place all the 100 apartments in a linear building, because there was a height restriction. Thus the overhang volumes: all the apartments that couldn't fit into the linear volume where hang on the northern side, with an east-west orientation.

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AmsterdamGedempt Hamerkanaal 96

De OverkantSOLUZ, CUBE ArchitectenAmsterdam gets a new piece of bustling city at one of the most beautiful spots on the IJ, De Overkant. This project involves the rede-velopment of the 30,000 premises of the former Stork factory in Amsterdam North. At the end of 2009 CUBE architecten and SOLUZ have won the architects selection with their sketch design. Since then we were commissioned by Eigen Haard and involved in the process and the realization of the project. The aim is to realize an in-dustrial location with a high character, in which different creative companies, restau-rants, events, and culture will find their place over the next 15 years. The prime location on the IJ has a rich history of port and industry. The raw industrial character will be used as identity for the new features.

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AmsterdamMuseumstraat 1

Rijksmuseum in AmsterdamCruz y Ortiz ArquitectosRenovating the biggest and most important art- and history museum of the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum, has been a complex and comprehensive project with an astonishing result. ADP architecten put in many working hours as the technical architect for Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. The impressive renovation recovered the original 19th century building of Cuypers in its original glory while meet-ing the need to house over 7.000 objects of art and history, exposed for a big public of 1,5-2 million visitors each year. The way in which Cruz y Ortiz carefully treated the existing building highlights and reinforces the spatial use of the monumental build-ing is a modern way. An important thread in the architects' perspective was "to go further with Cuypers," which not only did justice to the original architect, but as well required a measured interpretation of the costly monumental aspects and gave them a new logic or additional layer in time.

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AmsterdamCornelis Schuytstraat 16

Stills Flagship StoreDoepel StrijkersOn the Cornelis Schuijtstraat in Amster-dam a flagship store has been realized for the label Stills. The spatial interventions in the hull, which visually connects the floors, are not emphasized by smoothing them but has been kept visible to show additions and finishing layers over time.There is a base from which the origi-nal shop and its transformations over time remained visible. This pattern of textures in the existing building is com-plemented by an object. A spatial trans-lation based on the values of the label.Stills seeks for sophistication through nov-el combinations and delicate contrasts, in fits, in styles, in looks, in feels. Their ultimate research in the intrinsic qualities of materi-als, results in new potentials for working with them, treat and combine them. This distinctive Stills quality has been translat-ed in a spatial identity based on a new ty-pology. Natural materials, craftsmanship,

refined textures and specific pat¬terns are reflected in a spatial fabric which fills the space as a volume. A careful analysis of the movement of humans in space and the percep¬tion of clothing forms the base for the deformation of the spatial grid. The dense grid opens itself. An implementation with a durable spatial identity, maximum experience and minimum resources is the result. Dressing rooms, lighting and all pos-sible options for presentation are integrated into the volume, so clothing, shoes, bags, books and mannequins form the visual spec¬ification of the continuous structure.

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AmsterdamHeadquarters for G - Star RA WOMASituated next to the A10 in the industrial Zui-dOost area of Amsterdam, the new HQ for G-Star RAWwill consolidate G-Star RAW’s disparate facilities into a single building that aims to stimulate interaction between vari-ous departments. The 27,500m2 horizontal building – 140 metres long – consists of a creative nucleus containing the core depart-ments of G-Star RAW, which are enveloped by a ring of offices, parking and support fa-cilities. The distinction between the support activities and the creative core is heightened through contrasting materials – a monolith-ic solidity rendered in black concrete for the ring, while the creative core is visible through the glass façade. The lower part of the ring forms a plinth for parking and drop off; the plinth also provides a location for in-stallations and events. The main entrance is situated at the level of the plinth and is underneath a cantilevered glass box that houses G-Star’s showrooms. This end of

the building, distinct from the inner workings of G-Star, is dedicated to visitors; however there is still exposure of these inner work-ings through controlled views and access.

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United NudeRem D KoolhaasCalled United Nude, the brand was found-ed by Koolhaas with shoe manufacturer Galahad JD Clark. Shoes are displayed in-side back-lit recesses in an undulating wall, which continuously changes colour.Others are presented in glass cases on wooden plinths, or positioned along wooden steps.A new milestone for the architectural shoe brand United Nude, a brand founded by architect Rem D Koolhaas and Galahad JD Clark opens a flagship store in Amsterdam on October 22, 2009. Located in the presti-gious city center address of Spuistraat 125, United Nude presents their concept, the Wall of Light™.United Nude is distributed in over 300 points of sale worldwide in over 30 terri-tories. Up next for the brand in early 2010, are flagship stores in Shanghai and New York.

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AmsterdamSilodam 1

SILODAMMVRDVThe Housing Silo is situated on the IJ River, at the tip of the pier, next to two former grain warehouses (silos) that have been convert-ed into housing. The 157 apartments, busi-ness units and public spaces, in the Hous-ing Silo, are compressed within a 10 storey high and 20 meters deep urban envelope. The apartments, rental and owner in differ-ent sizes, are stacked, legible on the façade, each of which is expressed differently. The aim of mixing functions spatially (commer-cial units and semi-public spaces were not to be confined automatically to ground lev-el but distributed throughout the complex) has not been realized. All commercial units have been gathered in a clearly recognis-able volume. At the west side is a shared roof terrace for residents, and small boats can moor between the columns underneath.

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AmsterdamParkrand BuildingMVRDV

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The neighbourhood Geuzenveld is locat-ed in the western garden cities of Amster-dam. There is plenty of public space avail-able but most of these green spaces lack grandeur. The project is regarded to be a 'key-operation within the urban renewal of Geuzeveld-Slotermeer. The building should provide an iconographic quality to the neigh-bourhood which it was lacking before.’ The housing block is situated at the edge of a park and consists out of 5 towers, positioned on a deck, carrying a two level roof plate. The positioning of the towers provides a clear view from all apartments to the park. Be-cause of the holes, or empty spaces in-be-tween, the dwellings behind the big block also still have a view on the park. The title of the project - Parkrand - means park-edge.

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AmsterdamBorneoMVRDV

Sporenburg - Borneo

In Borneo-Sporenburg Amsterdam (the most compact new housing district in The Netherlands of the 1990's) two dwellings have been designed that aim for the greatest possible spaciousness and versatility within a limited envelope.The Borneo Sporenburg area (east of Am-sterdam City) is a former harbour area. The harbour moved to the west, in the direc-tion of the sea. Adriaan Geuze of West 8 Landscape Architects tried to develop the Borneo Sporenburg area into a kind of old fashioned neighbourhood like 'De Jordaan' in the west part of the Amsterdam inner-city. The 60 terraced houses on Borneo refer of course to the Amsterdam Canal houses.Plot 18 is called a garden plot: 4.2 x 16 meter, with a 4.0 meter deep garden on the water front. In principle only three floors were possible within the 9.5 metre high envelope allocated: one high floor at street level and two lower floors above it. Despite this, the

plan achieves four floors while at the same time the ceiling height over much of the build-ing is higher than normal. By sliding out one of the four floors at the rear facing the wa-ter, a special spacious long cross-section is created with two closed elements: a garage come storage space on the street and pro-truding bathroom and bedroom block on the second floor. The remaining irregular space houses the kitchen-diner, sitting room and study, all spatially connected to one another. A series of rooms have been created dif-fering in height and degree of privacy. Each are connected with the exterior in their own individual way, ranging from a two-storey veranda facing the water, to a balcony with French windows to the living room, a glass bay window to the bedroom and a roof garden to the studio in the attic.

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Diefdijk 5 - Highway A2 Second World War BUNKER 599Studios RAAAF and Atelier de LyonIn a radical way this intervention sheds new light on the Dutch policy on cultural heritage. At the same, it time makes people look at their surroundings in a new way. The proj-ect lays bare two secrets of the New Dutch Waterline (NDW), a military line of defence in use from 1815 until 1940 protecting the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by means of intentional flooding.A seemingly indestructible bunker with mon-umental status is sliced open. The design thereby opens up the minuscule interior of one of NDW’s 700 bunkers, the insides of which are normally cut off from view com-pletely. In addition, a long wooden board-walk cuts through the extremely heavy con-struction. It leads visitors to a flooded area and to the footpaths of the adjacent natural reserve. The pier and the piles supporting it remind them that the water surrounding them is not caused by e.g. the removal of sand but rather is a shallow water plain char-

acteristic of the inundations in times of war.The sliced up bunker forms a publicly ac-cessible attraction for visitors of the NDW. It is moreover visible from the A2 high-way and can thus also be seen by tens of thousands of passers-by each day. The project is part of the overall strategy of RAAAF | Atelier de Lyon to make this unique part of Dutch history accessible and tangible for a wide variety of visitors. Paradoxically, after the intervention Bunker 599 became a Dutch national monument.

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SchijndelStreet Hoofdstraat

Glass FarmMVRDVSchijndel's market square suffered from Operation Market Garden damages during WWII and has been subject to numerous enlargements and refurbishments. Winy Maas wrote a letter in 1980, and in 2000 the town council adopted the idea of a new structure in the square between church, town hall and main street. The 1600m² building which is entirely covered by a glass facade consists primarily of a series of pub-lic amenities such as restaurants, shops and a wellness centre. By coincidence, the

maximum envelope that was defined by the town planners had the form of a tradition-al Schijndel farm. All remaining historical local farms were measured, analyzed and an 'ideal' average was conceived from this data. In collaboration with MVRDV, artist Frank van der Salm photographed all the remaining traditional farms, and from these an image of the 'typical farm' was com-posed. This image was printed using fritted procedure onto the 1800m2 glass facade.

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