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Sao Paulo, screaming vacancy
Anyone who takes a walk through Sao Paulo’s oldest neighbourhooud Sé on a weekday during daytime will experience a city that probably resembles something between Lisbon and New York. Crowded streets lined by European style monumental buildings and skyscrapers. After closing time of the shops and offices the streets are dead. Nobody lives in Sé. [...]
Urban plan Gouda East presented to neighbourhood.
More than a hundred interested residents attend the presentation on March 20th of the pland for the first step in the urban renewal of Gouda East. The urban sub plan “Southern Stamp and Traverse” is designed by One Architecture. The design of the public space is the work of Lodewijk Baljon Landscape Architects. The [...]
St Jozef masterplan approved
On December 21st Deventer’s city council approved the new master plan for the Jozef location. This master plan has been made by the city, in close collaboration with One Architecture. The approval of this master plan shows the strength of organic urbanism. In 2008, One Architecture developed and designed a health center on a part [...]
Statue missing!
After the succesful St Jozef health center we have continued working on the former hospital complex in Deventer, now a national monument, to transform its main building into the new heart of an elderly care facility. The main entrance of this building is marked by a beautiful bronze statue…. until a week ago. The [...]
Happy New Site!
A new year, a new site. In the past month my website has been remodeled for more stability, cleaner layout, easier reading and easier updating. Also many old projects have been added to the site. And more news to come in 2011.
A curtain for Keukenhof
The Castle Keukenhof foundation has the ambition to develop the estate surrounding its castle (bordering the famous flower exhibtion garden) into an art-landscape. While the possibilities of the development are being researched, One Architecture has created a first step. A huge curtain at the entrance of the estate marks the start of the transformation.
Ideas for Cruquius
The Haarlemmermeerpolder is one of the most dynamic areas in the Netherlands. This polder between Amsterdam and the Hague, once almost exclusively agricultural, has seen a rapid change in the last decades. It houses one of Europe’s largest airports and two former villages have exploded into large suburban areas. The little township Cruquius has until [...]
Art district Moscow
Bart Aptroot participated in a workshop as part of the uDUTCHnaya festival in Moscow. On December 6th 2009 the results of the internation workshop were presented at the Center of Contemporary Architecture (C:CA) in Moscow, at -5 degrees Celsius indoor (the institute’s buidling was being refurbished). In the workshop a group of Russian architects worked [...]
The rural idyll
Friday October 16th the Rural Wageningen Foundation (RUW) organized the symposium ‘The Rural Idyll’, where different actors from science, public authorities and the field presented their ‘Rural Idyll’ of the Dutch and European countryside. The countryside is facing rapid changes with at the one side growth of large companies with investments in technical innovations and [...]
St Jozef Health Care Center
In 2007 Deventer Hospital decided to transform the monastery of the former catholic St. Jozef Hospital into a new health care center. The architectonical interventions set up a dialogue with three major aspects of the building; the structure of the complex around the gardens, the sacral identity of the building and the catholic brick-hiding-the-underlying-concrete-architecture from [...]
CSI Sao Paulo
City Space Investigations, an initiative by Urban Detectives is currently studying the city of Sao Paulo in a two week workshop and on site reasearch program. Particpants are students and professionals from Delft and Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, a mega metropolis with close to 20 million inhabitants, of which a large part live in informal [...]
Shrink lab
The Netherlands are starting to see the effects of a shrinking population. It’s already happening on the edges of the country: a decreasing number of inhabitants. The shrink lab, a combined initiative of BNA, Aedes and KEI, studies the effects of shrinking and proposes design strategies to get the best out of it. Bart Aptroot [...]