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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 [...]
Sao Paulo, a retrospective
Almost a year after the CSI Sao Paulo workshop by Urban Detectives, the organizer Jaap Klaarenbeek announced a new workshop in SP for Q4 2010. Time for a quick retrospective. Sao Paulo shows an incredible urban planning mechanism, most prominent in its favelas. A planning in which latent action (rumour) is immediate reaction, where a [...]
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 [...]
The (climate) friendly city
Article (in Dutch) for architectural magazine De Architect. Review of a symposium and exhibition about a climate friendly future for Amsterdam.
DD: One Architecture!
The 18th edition of the Korean Design Document series is entirely dedicated to One Architecture. The book not only shows projects but also highlights the various themes that play a role in the work of One Architecture. Order via Architecture & Natura.