Architecture Days- A'DAM Toren Amsterdam
Amsterdam architecture is amazing, especially the modern buildings with innovative designs and unusual lines that offer a stark contrast to the older canal houses and tower-like churches. Architecture Days are a series of events, tours & exhibitions which let you get up close and inside some of the city's finest and famous examples.This year the theme centers around the Ij Channel and host Ashley gets a waterside view on a harbor boat; tours the converted housing area of the Eastern Docklands; and gets an early preview of the A'DAM Toren, riding to its top for the best views in Amsterdam.
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International Archi-Tour with UNStudio
SOUTHBANK BY BEULAH | ARCHI-TOUR WITH UNStudio
We recently visited each international firm competing in our Southbank by Beulah project to learn more about their process and approach to architecture. It was a great pleasure to witness our semi-finalists hard at work behind-the-scenes. Here we share with you a glimpse into their craft.
Limited tickets available – secure your seats for our ‘Future Cities’ public symposium on July 27 at southbankbybeulah.com
UNStudio's Amsterdam Pavilion Teaser - Great Spaces
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What about it!? - Contemporary architecture - Silodam by MVRDV in Amsterdam
A quick tour and info about the Silodam house constructed by MVRDV in Amsterdam. A great architecture overall but with a few interesting details to notice...
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Thanks to Gerard Boon for the excursion, you can book it here: silodam.org
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UNStudio Amsterdam office
A short video compilation showing moments of daily life at UNStudio's Amsterdam office.
With thanks to Michelle and Marjolein.
UNStudio & FOA (Foreign Office Architects)
UNStudio & FOA (Foreign Office Architects)
Architour promo
Promo for our cultural route throught the 'Plantagebuurt' in Amsterdam
UNStudio Profile by Submarine
Video profile of UNStudio by Submarine, Amsterdam
ARCHITECT Visits Mecanoo
In this segment ARCHITECT visits the Netherlands to stop by Mecanoo. Founding partner and creative director, Francine Houben, describes her staff as a symphony orchestra because of the unique part each member plays.
This series is produced by ARCHITECT with Arbuckle Industries
Special thanks to Ian Harris, David Krantz and Oscar M.L.
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Rem Koolhaas speaks about his De Rotterdam tower
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In this exclusive interview, Rem Koolhaas tells Dezeen why the colossal new De Rotterdam tower is the most visible OMA skyscraper yet. Nobody will be able to avoid seeing it, he says.
Located on the south bank of Rotterdam's Maas river, De Rotterdam is a 150-metre structure where overlapping glazed towers accommodate apartments, offices and a hotel. It is only the fourth high-rise that OMA has completed, even though the firm has developed designs for dozens over the years.
This is on a site where nobody will be able to avoid seeing the entire building, says Koolhaas, comparing the project with the Rothschild Bank Headquarters in London and CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, both of which are located within a dense cityscape. It has a superb location on the river that can be only approached on one bridge, so we could really predict how it will be perceived, he said.
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Rem Koolhaas: Parc de la Villette & Exposition Universelle (November 16, 1983)
Gary Paige introduces Rem Koolhaas, describing his personal and professional past, his background, accomplishments, and contributions to architectural theory and design. Koolhaas describes how his office functions and some of their current work, this includes a dance theatre and social housing in Amsterdam.
Koolhaas describes in detail his Parc de la Villette competition entry. He talks about the French government’s desire to create a “park for the twenty-first century.” Koolhaas shows original sketches while discussing the site, program, and context analysis that led to the project’s conceptual scheme. He also touches upon how certain motifs his office constantly explores crop up in this entry.
Koolhaas briefly outlines his drawing methods and techniques while describing this presentation for the Parc de la Villette competition. He explains the selection process. He describes his concept for vegetation on the site and how its density creates an illusion of confinement usually associated with park typologies. Koolhaas then navigates through dozens of slides of the unusally large model made for the competition. While doing so, he explains the cohesion between programmatic elements and interlaced forms.
Koolhaas moves onto a second project of the lecture which concerns the master plan of the proposed 1989 Exposition Universelle in Paris. He walks the audience through the basic schemes and themes that were regulated by site and type analysis. Ultimately, political and economic setbacks caused the cancellation of the Expo.
Following his lecture, Koolhaas answers several questions concerning his years in America and explains why he eventually moved back to Europe. He also discusses the organization of the Parc de la Villette entry along the Parisian freeway system as a way to exploit truths about the urban condition. At one point, he finds himself defending the notion that his entry was more a capitalist shopping mall than it was, as Koolhaas sees it, an architectural theme park. He ends the session by discussing the difference of typological and programmatic sensibilities and flexibilities between Europe and America.
하루1분 - 네덜란드 로테르담. 현대건축투어어어
매알 하루에 1분씩 바보하나의 유럽생존기. 오늘은 암스테르담에 이어 네덜란드의 로테르다아아아아암. 현대건축물이 많은 건축학도들의 성지
UNStudio, Amsterdam - The New Understanding
UNStudio est une agence d'architecture néerlandaise fondée en1998 par Ben van Berkel et Caroline Bos.
Cette agence compte plus de 60 employés et travaille dans le monde entier.
Les projets les plus emblématiques d'UNStudio sont : le nouveau musée Mercedes-Benz à Stuttgart (2001-2006), le pont Érasme à Rotterdam (1990-1996), le centre de bureaux La Defense à Almere (1999-2004), la maison Möbius dans la région de la Gooi (1993-1998) et le théâtre Agora à Lelystad (2002-2007).
UNStudio, Caroline Bos about winning project Arnhem Central Station
This is a message from Caroline Bos, Co Founder UNStudio, giving us some insides on their team's work with regard to the Arnhem Central Station which was the winning project in the Urban Developments category of the 2017 Zumtobel Group Award.
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Architect Ben van Berkel (UNStudio) on Sensing
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World famous Dutch architect, THNK Forum Guest & Advisory Board member Ben van Berkel joins our Creative Leadership Program for a session on the essential element of Sensing as part of the THNK Creation Flow.
Sensing is the process of exploring a topic, combining rational analysis with intuitive gathering of insights.
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Building Portrait: Timmerhuis, OMA
PLANE—SITE was invited to curate and produce a panel entitled Housing as a Matter of Fact as part of the World Architecture Festival in Berlin in November 2016. We visited four innovative projects to interview the residents and observe their lived experience at home within experimental architecture. By using video as a platform, we hoped to afford them the opportunity to relate their experiences, unscripted, in their own words, within the context of their own radical homes.
Timmerhuis is a project that brings residential options back into the city center of Rotterdam, which previously only contained commercial office spaces. OMA’s unique housing project provides a wide variety of residents, from empty nesters to families, with an exciting urban environment to live in. The former government building was restored to resemble two mountain-like towers permitting its residents with outdoor space on its many terraces.
Videographer: Michael Waldrep, for PLANE—SITE
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Ellen von Loon Interview: Contaminating Architecture
Meet architect Ellen van Loon, the Dutch ‘design duchess’ of the world-renowned Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), who here talks about the ideas and “architectural contamination” that went into creating the new multifunctional BLOX building in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark: “I think it was the right task for us, this site, because nobody really knew what to do with it… and it had to do with re-inventing mixed-use, reinventing DAC and re-inventing this area of Copenhagen.”
“You can’t just go through the building, the building is made in such a way that you do have to interact with it.” Van Loon was interested in mixing the various functions of BLOX – which contains DAC (Danish Architecture Center), exhibition spaces, offices and co-working spaces, a café, a bookstore, a fitness centre, a restaurant, twenty-two apartments and an underground public car park – meaning that the users in the building can use each other’s space. She hopes that the building will attract a lot of people, and that the various users and residents, as well as visitors, will interact: “The dream was a mixing chamber to the max.”
The building is an architectural statement, placed in a historic part of Copenhagen with small, old houses and the waterfront to keep in mind. The main purpose, however, was to create “a good space where you can explain architecture to the visitors of this building.” In connection to DAC, they wanted to “embed them in their own field of study” by placing them in the centre of the building, which meant that they would “contaminate all the other functions.” Moreover, the scale of the pixelated building presents an opportunity to show architecture in a much larger scale as well as connecting other art forms to the museum, thus making it a venue devoted to not only architecture but also design and urban culture.
Ellen van Loon (b. 1963) is a Dutch architect and partner at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. Based in Rotterdam, van Loon joined OMA in 1998, and alongside eight partners including Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Jason Long, she has led several award-winning building projects around the world. Some of the most significant contributions include New Court, Rothschild Bank Headquarters in London, the G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam, Maggie’s Centre in Glasgow, De Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Casa da Musica in Porto, and BLOX in Copenhagen, which is fronted by herself and Rem Koolhaas. Van Loon is the recipient of awards such as the 2007 RIBA Award and the European Union Mies van der Rohe award (2005).
Ellen van Loon was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at BLOX in Copenhagen, Denmark in January 2018. For more about BLOX see:
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018
Supported by Dreyers Fond
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MVRDV lecture (Jacob van Rijs) English version oct 2017
MVRDV Lecture (Jacob van Rijs), at the opening ceremony of the academic year 2017/2018. Auditorium of the University of Málaga. October 9, 2017