Forum Groningen is a new multifunctional building in the center of Groningen, a cultural ‘department store’ filled with books and images, that offers exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants. The Forum aspires to become a platform for interaction and debate, a ‘living room’ for the city. Continue reading NL Architects
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Klencke (or Terras op Zuid) is a residential complex with a distinctive stepped profile that provides supersized outdoor spaces with a spectacular orientation.
Klencke contains 50 units and will soon go up on the so-called Zuidas. The Zuidas is the CBD of Amsterdam; a point of gravity that absorbs financial institutions, law firms and related services, the La Defense or the Canary Wharf of the Netherlands. Continue reading NL Architects
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Club House Varkenoord by NL Architects for Rotterdam Municipality. Continue reading NL Architects
NL Architects . photos: © Sebastian van Damme
Tin Tin Tower shot by Sebastian van Damme for NL Architects. Continue reading NL Architects
The peculiarity of the site is characterized by two contradictory phenomena. The audible world with its unpleasant sound pollution of nearby highway and industry sources creates a paradox with what is visible: A bucolic scene of an idyllic lake.
The new residential quarter Am Albertussee creates a new mixture of city and landscape. The contrasting urban morphologies of a modernist cityscape and the compact “European city” merge to a symbiosis that combines the advantages of both concepts.
The scenic nature of the place is emphasized by the flowing spaces of modernity, while the block interior of the solitaires protects the inhabitants from the noise emissions of its surroundings. The outdoor space is an inclusive permeable public space, which serves both the residents as well as the entire population as a place for leisure.
The transition between the pastoral south and the urban north marks not only the relationship of nature and culture, but creates a functional gradient of the inaccessible biotope to the densely programmed space. Continue reading BeL . NL
