Archi-guide 2009

ARCHI-GUIDE

BELGIUM + Netherlands 2009

ARCHI-GUIDE

BELGIUM + Netherlands 2009

Western Europe Almere, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands Antwerp, Belgium Bruges, Belgium Brussels, Belgium Den Hague, Netherlands Leuven, Belgium Paris, France Rotterdam, Netherlands Utrecht, Netherlands

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Western Europe Study Abroad 2009 coa_ttu

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Stadhuis Almere ANNO Restaurant BOUW RAI II Polygoon Primary School Health Care Center De Bombardon School Almere Central Station De Fantasie De Realiteit BOUW RAI I

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Stadhuis Almere C.G. Dam

Almere Stad

“Its street layout, a grid of rectangular plots, served as a springboard for the design of the town hall: two five storeywings at right angles and one diagonal wing. The front and rear facades are contrasting. Those facing the town have a distinghuised character deriving from the classical tripartition of basement, marble-clad middle section, and cornice with round indentations. The rear facade is less flat, and displays a great degree of openness.” - Dam & Partners

ANNO Restaurant Jo Coenen

Grote Markt 121

ANNO is a grand café / restaurant serving quality food for a reasonable price. ANNO serves breakfast from 7 am until 11 am. A variety of lunch dishes can be ordered from 11 am to 5 pm and from 5 pm to 10 pm the kitchen is open for dinner. - Active Hotels

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BOUW RAI II

Sjoerd Soeters | Fons Verheijen | Mecanoo | Quist

Filmwijk Almere Stad

“In response to the somewhat chaotic urban framework of the BOUW RAI I, these new schemes were sited in a taut, radial plan. Filling this radial plan with a mixed bag of mostly rectilinear blocks was evidently no easy task. ” - Guide to Contemporary Architecture in the Netherlands

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ALMERE

Polygoon Primary School Herman Hertzberger Hollywoodlaan 109

“16 classrooms are not grouped around a central hall, but situated alongside the long shaped, street like space, overcovered by the arch shaped roof. Additional educational spaces are combined as a strip in the middle of this ‘street’. This zone of smaller, more or less enclosed rooms is interrupted by place like open spaces that connect the two corridors. On top of this central zone there is a long balcony, open for different use.” - Herman Hertzberger

Health Center A.E. & H. van Eyck

Greta Garboplantsoen 1

“Aldo van Eyck was commissioned to design a health center for the Filmwijk neighbourhood as part of the BOUW RAI II. From outside the building looks hermetic, a fortress even, judging by the phalanx of ‘periscopes’ poking up like battlements along the North facade. Internally the design proves to be another illustration of Van Eyck’s ‘house as a small city’ theme. The entrances are located at places where the outer walls sweep inward.” - Guide to Contemporary Architecture in the Netherlands

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De Bombardon Primary School

Herman Hertzberger Simon van Collemstraat

“Besides 14 formal classrooms, this school for children with learning and educational problems has a relatively large number of additional spaces, including around 6 rooms for remedial teaching, spaces for expressive movement and one for cookery lessons and a gym. The main theme was the absence of corridors, with all rooms opening on to an uninterrupted hallway stretching like an interior main street over the entire length of the building.” - Herman Hertzberger

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Almere Central Station REM Koolhaas, OMA | F. Alkemade Almere Stad

“Almere, now over 100.000 inhabitants, has existed less than two decades. In that short time the city has demonstrated enormous potential and vitality. It has shown a commitment to architectural innovation and experimentation. Almere will soon reach the critical mass that will enable it to redefine its ambitions; ten years from today, the population will approach that of an average mediumsized city.” - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

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The Fantasie

1986

RH van Zuuk | D. Kinkel | Benthem Crouwel Markerkant 1408

“De Fantasie is a collection of splendid houses on the southwest shore of the Weerwater. De Fantasie has developed into a beautiful and tranquil neighborhood. Because of the involvement of the people in this area it has the feel of a holiday resort. The intention was to build homes which were to be demolished after five years. However, due to the project’s success, the houses are still standing.” - Holland.com

De Realiteit Teun Koolhaas Noorderplassen

“De Realiteit lies in a fairly remote area, which has resulted in a surprising ambience. The seventeen houses differ in the materials used and the construction, but mainly in shape. ‘A bird is flying underneath our house’ is suspended five meters above the ground in a steel frame. The house itself is a small, two-storied wooden cube. The surface area of the house is small in proportion to the steel frame.” - Holland.com

1991

BOUW RAI I

Hertzberger | Mecanoo | Teun Koolhaas Muziekwijk, Almere Stad

“Muziekwijk is the first quarter in Almere which has been fully developed by the city itself. Muziekwijk is known for the houses in the former exhibition area of the BOUW RAI in 1998. As there were no existing buildings, there were virtually no conditions the new designs had to comply with. The various architects, including Herman Hertzberger, Teun Koolhaas, Peter Loerakker and Mecanoo, created a wide range of houses. A recent edition is De Muzen. Atelier Pro designed this 360-meter-long building.” - Holland.com

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1998

Housing Eigen_Haard Shell Polymers Centre Urban Design and Housing Bicycle Storage Silo Dam Exchange -Beurs Scheepvaarthuis Mother’s House NEMO - National Center for Science and Technology Anne Frank House Museum ARCAM Architecture Center Amsterdam Public Library De Wallen “Red Light District” College of Fine Arts IJ - Tower Montessori College Oost Scheepstimmermanstraat Het Ousten Pavilion The Whale Open Lucht School Amsterdam Orphanage Van Gogh Museum Addition ING Group Headquarters World Trade Center A’dam Municipal Technical Building Schiphol Airport

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Silo Dam

Housing Eigen_Haard M. de Klerk

Spaardammerplantsoen, A’dam

1920

AMSTERDAM “Also known as Het Schip. This is a housing complex with post-office that was built for dockers and railway workers. Sits on a triangular piece of land. Expressionist (ca. 1905-1925) / Amsterdam School” - Roger Shepard

Shell Polymers Centre M. Zwarts

Badhuisweg 3, 1031 CM, Amsterdam

“Appropriately enough, this is the home to one of the company’s twelve research and technology groups around the world. Essentially, these people work on new and better ways of making energy and coming up with new things to do with it. The building is on the north side of the IJ river, commonly referred to as the “other” side by locals. From its position on the edge of Amsterdam’s harbor it has a commanding view of the city. Its most striking feature is on the roof -- a concrete mass of geometric squares and circles turned at a 45-degree angle to the rest of the building.” - Wayne Lorentz

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Urban Design and Housing IJ-plein Rem Koolhaas, OMA

Koperslagerij 51 1021 Amsterdam AMSTERDAM

1989

“The brief required an explicit visual relationship with the IJ-river and with the historic center of Amsterdam on the opposite riverbank. The urbanistic plan proposes an open plan of parallel slabs of different height and form, and a triangular lawn. The western part is of three rows of urban villas (towers with four dwellings on each level) and two slabs, with dwellings accessible by a street in the air or central stairs. The eastern part is dominated by parallel slabs of different hight” - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

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Bicycle Storage VMX

Scheepstimmermanstraat

2001

AMSTERDAM “The design is based on a very functional storage. Conceived of as public space and using the existing height difference along the station square of 1,25 meters a system of slopes has been created on which the bicycles can be stored. Next to its function as storage the building has revealed different uses. Skaters for instance love to use it as a podium for their stunts and tourist never leave without having taken their pictures in front of it” - VMX Architects

Silo Dam MVRDV IJ River

“The 157 apartments, business units and public spaces, in the Housing Silo, are compressed within a 10 story high and 20 meters deep urban envelope. The apartments, rental and owner in different sizes, are stacked in internally connected neighborhoods.” - MVRDV

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Exchange -Beurs H.P.Berlage

Beursplein, damrak 267 AMSTERDAM

“The Beurs van Berlage is a building on the Damrak, in the center of Amsterdam. It was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School. It is now used as a conference venue. The building is constructed of red brick, with an iron and glass roof and stone piers, lintels and corbels. Its entrance is under a large clock tower, while inside lie three large multistory halls formerly used as trading floors, with offices and communal facilities grouped around them.” - Flickr.com

Scheepvaarthuis

M. de Klerk and P.L. Kramer Prins Hendrik kade 108-114

“The Scheepvaarthuis was built as a joint office for six Amsterdam shipping companies. It was to be a modern and functional office building. The structure is a piece de resistance of the Amsterdam School and one of the main examples of this architectural style. Characteristics of the Amsterdam School are the profuse masonry along the chimneys, ridge beams and frames and the design of the corners.” - Holland.com

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Mother’s House A. van Eyck

“Hubertus House, nicknamed the ‘Mother House’, was established in the 19th century to support ‘fallen women’. From the 1970s the house has offered shelter and protection to single parents and children. The staircase is a central feature of Hubertus House and clearly visible from the street. The supporting construction is a concrete construction of columns and floors. The non-retaining interior walls are made of glass. The staircases, terraces and passages make this a fascinating and intimate building. Intimacy is important in this house because of the circumstances of its occupants.” - Essential Architecture.com

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Plantage Middenlaan 33

NEMO_National Center for Science and Technology Renzo Piano

1997

Oosterdok 2 AMSTERDAM

“The building looks as if it is a giant ship docked at Oosterdok. This design seems to be inspired from the boats, ships, yachts, and barges that dock along Oosterdok. The design of the building is also influenced by the shape of the site; it curves with the shape of the underground IJ Tunnel.” - Galinsky

Anne Frank House Museum Extension Benthem Crouwel Architects BV ABT Delft Prinsengracht

“The house is now a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building. They lived there secretly for 2 years and a month before they were anonymously betrayed to the Nazi authorities, arrested, and deported to their deaths in concentration camps. Of the hidden group, only Otto Frank (Anne’s father) survived the war.” - Flickr.com

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ARCAM Architecture Center

Rene van Zuuk | Eindhoven Van der Laar

AMSTERDAM

Oosterdok

“The Architecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute. In the vicinity of Renzo Piano’s New Metropolis was a small pavilion also designed by him that was going to be demolished. The columns and some of the floors needed to be integrated in the new design.” - Maarten Willems

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Amsterdam Public Library Jo Coenen Oosterdok

2009

AMSTERDAM “The Amsterdam Public Library is the central one of three large new buildings on the restructured Oosterdokseiland, near the Central Station. The programme consists of a library of almost 30,000 m2 (including theatre), a large café, and 9,000 m2 of office space. As in the Milan library design, also by Coenen, a raised plinth offers a refined transitional area between the upper and lower floors” - Jo Coenen

De Wallen “Red Light District” Amsterdam

“From brothels to sex shops to museums, the Red Light District leaves nothing to the imagination. It is very likely that you will have heard about this neighbourhood and to be frank, everything you will have heard is probably true” - Amsterdam Info

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Het Ousten Pavilion

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College of Fine Arts K. van Velsen Sarphatistraat

1992

AMSTERDAM “The four floor-building offers studios, ateliers, offices, a large cinema and all other functions for all these different uses. The entrance to the building is at the ‘back’, on the small square. The façade which is viewed most of the time, the front side, seen from busy Meester Visserplein, has hardly any openings in the closed glass façade: the interiors need not have daylight. The glass is framed in grey concrete.” - Mi Modern Architecture

IJ-Tower

Neutelings Riedijk

Oostelijke Handelskade 1101

“This seventy meters high, 20 stories apartment tower is situated on the dam towards the KNSM Island, in the former docklands, east of the centre of Amsterdam. The tower has a regular facade composition with a diagonal window pattern. Several ‘holes’ in the building give it a strong sculpturally and generate a variety of 20 different dwelling types. The tower has been sculpted differently at each side. The building works as an orientating element in the new dockland area. The 3 stories plinth of the tower consists of a fitness club, roof garden, commercial retail spaces and a parking garage.” - Mi Modern Architecture

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Montessori College Oost

H. Hertzberger

Polderweg 1093 AMSTERDAM

1999

“Wood, glass and the use of colour tone down the coldness of the cement, making the building cosy and bright and offering a model of social tolerance and professional ethics distant from all forms of gratuitous virtuosity or stylistic exhibitionism. Colour is used to promote the idea of a less institutional, more modern, freer type of school: red dominates the central hall or square, while pillars are painted bright yellow, pink and blue.” - Elena Franzoia

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Private Houses

FARO Architecten | Hohne&Rapp | Koen van Velsen | MVRDV Scheepstimmermanstraat

2000

AMSTERDAM “One of a kind street in Amsterdam in the Eastern Docklands that allowed property owners to select an architect and design their own house. This breaks the previous mold of West 8’s design that is all very similar. This street faces a road on one side and a canal on the other. Includes over 60 different designs.” - Flickr.com

Het Ousten Pavillion Steven Holl

Sarphartistraat 401

“This new pavilion is parts of a renovation Steven Holl did for Het Oosten, a housing developer in Amsterdam. The old brick building (1889) at the Sarphatistraat was originally built as a storage for medicine. With this pavilion the housing developer wants to explain its views on sustainable building with the use of ornaments. This pavilion is made as a gift to the city; other organisations can also use it.” - mimoa.eu

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The Whale

AMSTERDAM

F.J.van Dongen architect and West 8 courtyard landscape design.

“The scale, the angular forms and the zinc façade of ‘The Whale’ residential complex have won it an iconic status in the redeveloped harbour district. It contrasts with the surroundings of low-rise dwellings like a ‘meteorite’ fallen from the skies. The building harbours a great variety of housing and spatial typologies. The block contains a total of 214 apartments, commercial space, a semi-public interior courtyard and an underground car park.” - wikipedia

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Open Lucht School

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Amsterdam Orphanage

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Van Gogh Museum Addition

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ING Group Headquarters

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World Trade Center A’dam

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Open Lucht School J. Duiker

Cliostraat 40

1930

AMSTERDAM “The Eerste Openluchtschool (First Open Air School) in Amsterdam is a model example of Modernist architecture, of the Dutch ‘Nieuwe Zakelijkheid’ (New Objectivity) to be exact. Johannes Duiker projected a concrete and glass building that shows proudly its glass-free corners thanks to the white-painted cantilevered structure. The school is a pure cubic volume rotated 45º degrees to the courtyard block where it is located. The only addition to the cube is the gym area in the ground plan.” - Mi Modern Architecture

Amsterdam Orphanage A. van Eyck

Amstelveenseweg M50 or 6. 16 Stadionstraat

“Although not prolific, Aldo van Eyck designed some seminal buildings, most notably Amsterdam’s Municipal Orphanage (1955-60) and the Hubertus House for single mothers (1973-1978), also in Amsterdam.The Amsterdam Orphanage spawned a whole school of Dutch architecture, Structuralism, although he never saw himself as a Structuralist.” - RIBA Architecture

1960

Van Gogh Museum Addition Kisho Kurokawa

Paulus Potterstraat 7 AMSTERDAM

1997

“After closing for nearly a year, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam reopened in June. Renovated (by Greiner & Van Goor Architects), equipped with new airconditioning, sophisticated lighting systems and modern auditorium, Gerrit Rietveld’s building continues to house the permanent collections. Temporary exhibitions have a new home in the form of Kisho Kurokawa’s wing built in the Museumplein to the south an exotic monolithic presence in the park.” - Find articles.com

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ING Group Headquarters

2002

Meyer and van Schooten (Architects) Aronsohn Raadgevende Engineers BV (SE) Amstelveenseweg 500 AMSTERDAM “This building is for the ING (banking) Group and is used as their headquarters. As a headquarters building, it is required to represent the ideals of the company, which are fast moving, transparency, innovation, eco-friendliness, and openness.” - Galinsky

World Trade Center A’dam Kohn Pedeersen Fox Assoc., PA Engineersvan Rossum BV (SE) A’dam South

“World Trade Center Amsterdam is located at the centre of the Zuidas economic development area. With its floor space of 100,000 m2, the building is one of the largest office buildings in the Netherlands.” - GTI Group.com

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Municipal Technical Building (dest. 2008) F.Claus, K.Kaan

“The depot of the public works department of the Amsterdam borough of Buitenveldert, combines the functionality of a warehouse with the opulence of a bungalow. Function and appearance contradict one another.” - Claus and Kaan Architecture

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Schiphol Airport

Benthem Crouwel and Naco Schiphol

“Schiphol is an important European airport, ranking as Europe’s 3rd largest and the world’s 14th largest for cargo tonnage. It also ranks as the world’s 3rd largest by international passenger traffic as well as Europe’s 5th and the world’s 12th largest by overall passenger volume.” - wikipedia

Van Roosmalen House Zuiderterras Café Apartment ‘De Kaai’ Guiette House and Studio

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Van Roosmalen House B. van Reeth

1988

ANTWERP “bOb Van Reeth, a Flemish architect and urbanizer of international fame, is well known for the Van Roosmalen House, nominated in 1990 for the Mies van der Rohe Prize, located on the Scheldekaai in Antwerp” - 6a3a.ru

Zuiderterras Café B. van Reeth

“During a period of forty years an empty socle stood on this beautiful spot. With my project I refer to what there was before: a classical building that served as a café just as the Zuiderterras now. ‘The Zuiderterras’ name is derived from the promenade with the same name along the ‘Schelde’ river quays. Transparency of the building was the starting point. This expresses itself in the choice of the materials: metal combined with a lot of glass. The interior was further completed with warm wood and transparent linen curtains. The alternation of mirrors and large windows creates an atmosphere of infinite space and connection with the river.” - Mi Modern Architecture

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Apartment ‘De Kaai’

W.J. Neutelings, M. de Kooning

“A long, narrow site on the river quay has been divided into two zones: a strip along the dividing wall containing the services and a long, freely sub divisible living area overlooking the river. The living area has been organized along to the dramatic view: a twelve-metre-long panorama window follows the slow-moving current; a large floor-to-ceiling window frames the view on the river bend. There are four floors of apartments with the top apartment designed as a duplex with roof terrace. The curved volume of the apartment block is clad with horizontal wooden siding..” - Neutelings-Riedijk

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Guiette House and Studio Le Corbusier

Populierenlaan 32, Antwerpen

“The painter Rene Guiette commissioned Le Corbusier to build him and his family a “pretty house” in the manner of the architect’s Atelier Ozenfant and Pavilion de L’Esprit Nouveau.’ The built project subscribes more to the spatial and structural formula of the Citrohan 2 prototype of 1922, adapted to a standard Antwerp lot, 6 meters wide and very deep. As in the Citrohan model, the “free facade” with generous strip glazing is limited to front and rear, whereas the parallel sides have columns embedded within largely solid, though non-bearing walls.” - The LeCorbusier Guide

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Grande Place Theatre Royal de la Monnaie Music Instrument Museum Van Eetvelde Waucquez Stores Belgian Comic Strip Center Central Railway Station European Parliment Dexia Tower Hotel Tassel Horta Museum Palace of Justice Palais Stoclet Ceca House Hufkens Gallery ULB Auditorium Atomium UCL Medical Campus

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Town House: Jacob van Thienen Tower: Jan van Ruysbroeck

BRUSSELS

“Grand Place is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city’s Town Hall, and the Bread House. The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels next to the Atomium and Manneken Pis.” - wikipedia

Theatre Royal de la Monnaie Charles van den Hove

“In the last three decades de Munt/la Monnaie, has regained its place amongst the foremost opera houses in Europe thanks to the efforts of the successive directors Gérard Mortier and Bernard Foccroulle and music director Antonio Pappano. The current edifice is the third theatre on the site. The façade dates from 1818 with major alterations made in 1856 and 1986. The foyer and auditorium date from 1856, but almost every other element of the present building was extensively renovated in the 1980s.” - wikipedia

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Music Instrument Museum

“As soon as it opened at the end of the 19th century, the luxurious Old England department store earned an excellent reputation for its highly distinctive building. The entrance to the building is a jewel of the Art nouveau style while the rest is in perfect harmony with the neoclassical ensemble on the Place Royale, and just around the corner from the Grand Place and Central Station.” - TripAdvisor.com

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BRUSSELS

Paul Saintenoy

Van Eetvelde Victor Horta

BRUSSELS

“The Hotel van Eetvelde in Brussels was designed in 1898 by Victor Horta, undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect. While most other architects flirted with the new style, Horta found it gave the best expression to his ideas. His skill is demonstrated in his ability to slip his domestic designs into narrow constricted sites. The interiors become of great importance as centres of light, which permeates through the filigree domes and skylights—usually in the centre of the building.” - Great Buildings Online

Waucquez Stores Victor Horta

“By the turn of the century, Art Nouveau was no longer the exclusive domain of a small group of enthusiasts. It had become a successful formula which was applied to everything. In no time at all countless Brussels single-family homes were erected in this style, allowing the city to take up a privileged position among European capitals. In these houses, often only a few metres wide, the emphasis was on the decorative façades.” - Belgium Comic Strip

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Belgian Comic Strip Center

Victor Horta

Rue des Sables 20

“In a masterpiece of Art Nouveau designed by Victor Horta, the Belgian Comic Strip Center brings together everything related to the comic strip,from its prestigious beginnings to its most recent developments, on more than 4,000 square metres of museum floors. One of the major tourist attractions of Brussels, the Center was inaugurated by the King and Queen on 3 October 1989. It welcomes 260,000 visitors each year. “ - Belgium Comic Strip Center

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Central Railway Station Victor Horta

North-South Junction

BRUSSELS

“This is the main modern station where the high-speed trains stop. These trains connect Brussels with London, Cologne, Paris and Amsterdam. In 2006 Brussels South is the only train station with many nice shops and restaurants. It’s also the largest train station. This train station is connected to the ringway metroline and several underground tramways.” - 2747.com

European Parliament

M. Bouquillon, J. van Pottelsberghe de La Potterie, G. Maes

“The present parliament has 785 members from all 27 EU countries. Nearly one third of them are women. In principle, the number of Members of the European Parliament shall not exceed 736 from the next parliamentary term on (i.e. 2009 – 2014). Since Bulgaria and Romania joined the Union in the course of the 20042009 parliamentary term, the current maximum number of 732 seats in the EP will be temporarily exceeded.” - wikipedia

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Dexia Tower

“Measuring 145 metres from top to bottom and counting 38 floors, Dexia Tower is the third highest building in Brussels. In the middle of the Rogier Square the building shines like a beacon over the town. The Tower is visible from several major traffic arteries in the capital and is situated precisely in the middle of the Mint Square – North Station axis. It has a trapeziumshaped footprint covering an area of 4,400 square metres.” - Dexia Towers

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Samyn & Partners

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Hotel Tassel Victor Horta

BRUSSELS

“The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its ground breaking use of materials and decoration.” - Archiplanet

Horta Musem Victor Horta

Rue Américaine 25

“The 1893 Art Nouveau style Maison Autrique is the first town house that Horta built in Brussels, and it is one of, if not the first, example of Art Nouveau architecture. This is significant when one considers how wildly popular the art form was throughout the Western world between the years of 1890 and 1905.” - Destination 360.com

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Palace of Justice

“Although this gigantic edifice does not really belong to the Sablon, it nevertheless dominates the area. It was built between 1860 and 1880 by Joseph Poulaert in eclectic style. It is believed to be the biggest building constructed in the 19th century in the world. The palace of justice is situated on top of a hill, which was called “gallows hill” in the Middle Ages. The dimensions of the palace are awesome: it is 105 m high and covers a total surface of 24.000 square meters. It still functions as the supreme court of law for Belgium.” - Travel Info

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Poulaert

Palais Stoclet Joseph Hoffmann

BRUSSELS

“It was constructed on Brussel’s Avenue de Tervueren by the Wiener Werkstätte or Viennese Workshop. Although the marble clad facade is radically simplified and looks forward to Modernism, it contains commissioned works by Gustav Klimt in the dining room, four copper figures at the top by sculptor Franz Metzner, and other craftwork inside and outside the building. This integration of architects, artists, and artisans makes it an example of Gesamtkunstwerk, one of the defining characteristics of Jugendstil.” - wikipedia

CECA House

W. van der Meeren

“Initiated by the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community), this experimental house is typical of post-War research into very economical housing and reflects the ECSC’s high involvement in this issue. Component standardisation, prefabrication and rationalisation of plans based on Le Corbusier’s Modulor combined to significantly cut labour costs, notably on site. The structure is based on 4 steel frames infilled with brick, weighing 4 tonnes in all. The light façades are also in metal, with frames in folded sheet metal for all glazed sections and opaque metal plate panels with incorporated insulation.” - steelconstruct.com

1905

1956

Hufkens Gallery

P. Robbrecht, H. Daem, M.J. van Hee

Sint-Jorisstraat 6-8 Rue Saint-Georges

“Xavier Hufkens started his first gallery in October 1987 in an ancient warehouse at the realm of Brussels. During the first five years of our existence, the gallery focused on then emerging, international artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antony Gormley, Jessica Stockholder.” - Hufkins

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BRUSSELS

1992

ULB Auditorium Samyn & Partners

BRUSSELS

“The history of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is closely linked with that of Belgium itself. When the nine provinces that broke away from the Kingdom of the Netherlands formed the Belgian State in 1830, there were three state universities in the country: Ghent, Liege and Leuven. Even though Brussels had been promoted to the rank of capital, it still had no university.” - wikipedia

1993

BRUSSELS

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BRUSSELS

Atomium

André Waterkeyn

“One of the original ideas for Expo ‘58 was to build an upside-down version of the Eiffel tower; however, Waterkeyn felt that an atomic structure would be more symbolic of the era. The monument was originally planned to remain standing only six months. However, it soon became a symbol not only of the World’s Fair, but of modern architecture and Brussels. The monument stayed the same for almost 50 years.” - wikipedia

1958

BRUSSELS

1970

UCL Medical Campus Atelier Kroll

“Lucien Kroll was born in Brussel, Belgium in 1927. After graduating from the Ecole Natinal Superieure de la Cambre, Brussels with an architecture degree, he studied city planning at the Institut Superieur de la Cambre and at the Institut Superieur International d’Urbanisme in Brussels. He worked in partnership with Charles Vandehove in Brussels from 1951 to 1957 after which he established his own practice. In 1970 he established Atelier Kroll.” - Great Buildings Online

Netherlands Dance Theater The Resident City Hall and Library Souterrain Entrance

den hague

1

Netherlands Dance Theater

2

The Resident

3

City Hall and Library

4

Souterrain Entrance

4

2

3

1

101

Netherlands Dance Theater REM Koolhaas, OMA Spuiplein 150-152

“The Netherlands Dance Theater in The Hague was one of the first completed projects to garner critical acclaim for OMA. A foyer shared with an adjacent concert hall consists of three levels: the lowest slotted beneath the auditorium tiers, above it a half-moon balcony, and at the top, a ‘floating skybar.” - ArchitectureWeek

DEN HAGUE

The Resident

1987

1992

R. Krier | Sjoerd Soeters | Cesar Pelli | Michael Graves Turfmarkt

“De Resident stitches the low-rise of the old town center to the high rises of the new business district centered on The Hague Central Station. A new tram route from the station to the city hall compensates for the built over tracks. Once the area had gained a new diagonal axis and horseshoe-shaped central public space, a team of name architects from home and abroad directed by Krier and Sjoerd Soeters was enlisted to design the panoply of high profile buildings.” - Guide to Contemporary Architecture in the Netherlands

City Hall and Library Richard Meier Spuiplein

“The City Hall and Central Library is easily spotted due to its enormous size and unmistakable Richard Meier palette - white, and only white. Another distinguishable trait of the building is the large open atrium space. The building complex houses the council chamber, marriage hall, public library, municipal offices, leased offices, and some shops on the street level. The atrium space has a glass roof that was carefully designed to allow sunlight in but at the same time to control the temperature of the space.” - galinsky.com

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DEN HAGUE

1995

Souterrain

REM Koolhaas, OMA

Grote Marktstraat | Kalvermarkt

“The souterrain tram tunnel is an element of intrastructure and a building at the same time. Located in the city centre of The Hague, the multistory underground tunnel provides 500 parking spaces on one level, whilst connecting 2 tram stations on the level below.” - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

2005

DEN HAGUE

DEN HAGUE

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Townhouse & Church Groot Begijnhof Leuven De Blauwput Youth Hostel

leuven

1

Townhouse & Church

2

Groot Begijnhof Leuven

3

De Blauwput Youth Hostel

1

2

3

Townhouse & Church

1400’s

“Leuven is a university town located 30km to the east of Brussels. The first references to the town may go back to the 9th century, but it was not until the 12th century that Leuven started to flourish as an important trading center for cloth. In 1425 the University of Leuven was founded. Leuven has a rich heritage and various historical buildings from different centuries can be admired. Its finely sculpted Town Hall and Saint Peter’s church with the famous ‘Last Supper’ by Thierry Bouts, are fine examples of flamboyant Gothic architecture at its best. The Baroque style can be found in St Michael’s church, in the interior of the St John the Baptist’s church, and in the unrivalled stucco of the Park Abbey. “ - Econ

Groot Begijnhof Leuven LUEVEN “The Grand Beguinage of Leuven, also known as Begijnhof Ten Hove, is a coolpreserved and fully restored historic district of a dozen streets in the south of the town, located on Sheep Street, near Porte de Namur. It is one of the largest remaining beguinages in Flanders (see also beguinage) with a built-up area of about 3 ha.” - wikipedia

De Blauwput Youth Hostel

ADDRESS:

Jeugdherberg “De Blauwput” Martelarenlaan 11A B-3010 Leuven BELGIUM

PHONE:

+32(0)16 63 90 62

WEBSITE:

http://www.leuven-hostel.com

“Many older people link the concept youth hostel with huge dormitories, everybody in bed at 9 pm and doing the dishes. Nope, that’s not us! We can best be classified as an easy-going, modern and budget friendly place to stay. We serve youth groups but also adult societies, next to individuals of course; young and old, Belgian and international. We offer spacious rooms for 2, 4 and 6 persons, each with their own shower and toilet.” - De Blauwput

LUEVEN

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Café del Unie Youth Accomodations Netherlands Architecture Institute Kunsthal Rotterdam Erasmus Bridge

rotterdam

2

1

3

4

1

2 3 4 5

5

Café del Unie Youth Accomodations Netherlands Architecture Institute Kunsthal Rotterdam Erasmus Bridge

Café de Unie J.J.P. Oud

Mauritsweg 35

“During the bombing of the city centre of Rotterdam on the 14th of May 1940 in World War II, the original building by J.J.P. Oud was destroyed. The design is a perfect example of the Dutch artistic moment De Stijl with its use of primary colours and simple abstract composition of vertical and horizontal directions.” - mimoa.eu

Youth Accommodation Mecanoo

Kruisplein, Rotterdam

ROTTERDAM

“Mecanoo took the irregular polygonal shape of the building plot as a starting point for their design. The oblong taller volume on the north, partly seven and partly ten floors high, matched the neighboring multi-level garage in scale. The lower block, consisting of five floors and with a ground floor occupied by shops, is curved in shape, performing an elegant turn towards the housing of Het Oude Westen” - Netherlands Architecture Intiture

1981

1981

1988

Netherlands Architecture Institute J. Coenen

Museumpark 25

“In his design for the NAI, Jo Coenen housed the various functions of the institute in different parts of the building, all of which are in perfect harmony. The resulting ensemble blends in with its environment and establishes a relationship with the surrounding buildings.” - Netherlands Architecture Institute

ROTTERDAM

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Kunsthal Rotterdam REM Koolhaas, OMA Westzeedijk 341

“The Kunsthal combines 3300 square meters of exhibition space, an auditorium and restaurant into one compact design. Sloping floor planes and a series of tightly organized ramps provide seamless connection between the three large exhibition halls and two intimate galleries. Its position, wedged between a busy highway and the network of museums and green spaces known as the museum park, allows it to function as a gateway to Rotterdam’s most prized cultural amenities. t” - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Erasmus Bridge

Ben van Berkel, UNStudio Nieuwe Maas river

ROTTERDAM

“The 139 m. tall pylon will become a new point of orientation, connected with, and announcing the new developments in the ‘Kop van Zuid’ area. The asymmetric form, with its bracket construction in sky coloured steel and its long cables, conveys the ‘mobile forces’, that is to say, the multitude of public, urban, constructive and architectural considerations that have been at the basis of the bridge.” - archINFORM

1988

1996

ROTTERDAM

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Rietveld Schroeder House Chauffeur’s Residence Utrecht Town Hall Double House Centraal Museum Economics and Management Educatorium Minnaert Building Cambridgelaan Housing Ronald McDonald House NMR Laboratory Basketbar University Library La Capanna Spaceboxes

utrecht

3

5

1

4

Rietveld Schroeder House

2

Chauffeur’s Residence

3

Utrecht Town Hall

4

Double House

5

Centraal Museum

1 2

Rietveld Schröder House Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Prins Hendriklaan 50, Oudwijk

“The Rietveld Schröderhuis in Utrecht is an icon of the Modern Movement in architecture and an outstanding expression of human creative genius in its purity of ideas and concepts as developed by the De Stijl movement. With its radical approach to design and the use of space, the Rietveld Schröderhuis occupies a seminal position in the development of architecture in the modern age.” - The World Heritage Committee

Chauffeur’s Residence Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Wilhelmina Park, Utrecht

UTRECHT

“Here Rietveld’s concern was as much for technique as for form. He used precast concrete slabs held in place by a frame of steel I-sections expressed as a de Stijl grid on the exterior.” - Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Biography

1923

1927

1997

Utrecht Town Hall Enric Miralles

Minrebroederstraat

“The neo-classical building is converted into a type of “monument” which forms part of the streets and squares... when the door opens it converts itself into part of the public space of the City.” - Enric Miralles

UTRECHT

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Double House MVRDV

Wilhelmina Park, Utrecht

“As the name of this project suggests, the house is designed for two families. Instead of simply splitting the site into halves for each of the two families, the architects designed the houses to be interlocked together three-dimensionally in order to have bigger living spaces that almost stretch across the entire width of the site.” - galinsky.com

Centraal Museum

1997

1999

Stéphane Beel | Lieven Achtergael | Peter Versseput. Utrecht

UTRECHT

“The Centraal Museum is housed in a former medieval cloister. But parts of the building have also served as an orphanage, military stable and a psychiatric hospital. In 1999 the museum was renovated by the architects Stéphane Beel, Lieven Achtergael and Peter Versseput. The museum comprises a series of pavilions around a central courtyard. Wandering around the museum it’s soon apparent that this building is a labyrinth” - Centraal Museum

UTRECHT

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1

Economics and Management

2

Educatorium

3

Minnaert Building

4

Cambridgelaan Housing

5

Ronald McDonald House

6 NMR Laboratory 7 Basketbar

8

University Library

9

La Capanna Spaceboxes

3 6

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8 9 4

129

1995

Economics and Management Mecanoo

De Uithof University

“The building is designed as one continuous space, enclosed by glass, in which four volumes of different shape and material rest on concrete columns. The square ground plan, with four connecting parts separated by three patios, ensures a free circulation to each corner of the building.” - Mecanoo

Educatorium

REM Koolhaas, OMA De Uithof University

UTRECHT

“Composed of two planes which fold to accommodate a range of distinct programs including an outdoor plaza, two lecture halls, cafeteria and a testing facility. Planes interlock to create a single trajectory in which the entire university experience – socialization, learning, examination – is encapsulated.” - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

1997

1997

Minnaert Building Neutelings Riedijk De Uithof University

“All circulation space of this central university building has been concentrated in one big hall on the “piano nobile” of the building. It constitutes the communal gathering place and living room for all staff and students in this part of the campus and gives access to the restaurant, the study centre and the laboratories. In the middle. The hall has a large pond of 10 x 50 metres that collects the rainwater and is used as a cooling device for the building. The facade of the building is clad with undulating sprayed concrete of pigmented red earth colour.” - Neutelings Riedijk

UTRECHT

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Cambridgelaan Rudy Uytenhaak De Uithof University

“This student housing residence consists of 1,002 separate rooms. There are two high risers: 16 floors (51 meters) and ten blocks of 4-5 floor buildings.” - De Uithof

Ronald McDonald House Bosch Haslett

De Uithof University

UTRECHT

“The Ronald McDonald House in Utrecht provides a “home-away-from-home” for the families of children receiving treatment at the hospital. The house consists of three building layers. Every floor is divided into clusters. Every cluster is distinct in form and colour so the house is divided into several units. Blinds can close off the guestrooms to allow the residents to have privacy. ” - ArchiNed

1999

1999

2000

NMR Laboratory

Ben van Berkel, UNStudio De Uithof University

“The small pavilion-like laboratory building for the NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Facility is located on the Uithof Campus of Utrecht University. The twofloor column free laboratory houses eight spectrometers (high-frequency magnets). This influenced decisively the spatial layout of the building, because the radiate force fields these magnets produce may not be disturbed. The building consists of a single concrete surface, which continues from floor plane into the wall and ceiling. The flipping-over surfaces are constructive and are thus not traversed by a secondary support structure of columns.” - UNStudio

UTRECHT

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Basketbar NL Partners

De Uithof University

“The Basket Bar is a trendy cafe underneath a basketball court, located at the heart of De Uithof and at the bottom of the Willem C. van Unnik Building. It is situated on a square which contains shops and other facilities. The Basket Bar was created by NL-Architects, who won the 2003 Rietveld Prize and the Award from the Netherlands Architecture Institute for young architects for their design. ” - Utrecht University

De Uithof Library Wiel Arets

De Uithof University

UTRECHT

“The University Library is located in the centre of De Uithof. It was designed by Wiel Arets and completed in 2004. The building has unprecedented spatial effects and is largely executed in black, red and white. The Library contains approx. 1,000 study places and over 4.2 million books and attracts a lot of (international) visitors. In 2005, Wiel Arets was awarded the Rietveld Prize for its design.” - Utrecht University

2003

2004

La Capanna Spaceboxes De Vijf Architects De Uithof University

“Spacebox has been installed at several universities and institutes of learning to provide flexible, low-cost housing for students, key workers and young professionals. The University of Utrecht have installed over 300 units (pictured) within the campus grounds. Car parking is provided. There is extensive bicycle storage to encourage the use of car-free transport. Each Spacebox has its own kitchen, wc and shower-room. There is a communal laundry. Other design options include communal café / sports / leisure rooms. Tenants report a high level of satisfaction with the facilities over several years of use.” - mimoa.eu

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2004

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index

34 28 36 6 42 48 56 62 68 69 64 54 8 52 30 72 76 10 75 53 96

134 85 46 39 31 12 80 88 96 97 14

116 132 92 126 86 124 103 58

A

Almere Central Station Almere Detail Map Almere Detail Map Almere, Netherlands Amsterdam Detail Map Amsterdam Detail Map Amsterdam Detail Map Amsterdam Detail Map Amsterdam Detail Map Amsterdam Detail Map Amsterdam Orphanage Amsterdam Public Library Amsterdam, Netherlands Anne Frank House Museum ANNO Restaurant Antwerp Detail Map Antwerp Detail Map Antwerp, Belgium Apartment ‘De Kaai’ ARCAM Architecture Center Atomium

111 33 38 38 54 100 16 87 126

130 130 118 86 50

C

Café del Unie Cambridgelaan Housing Ceca House Centraal Museum Central Railway Station Chauffeur’s Residence City Hall and Library College of Fine Arts

De Blauwput Youth Hostel De Bombardon School De Fantasie De Realiteit De Wallen “Red Light District” Den Hague Detail Map Den Hague, Netherlands Dexia Tower Double House

E

Economics and Management Educatorium Erasmus Bridge European Parliment Exchange -Beurs

G

82 Grande Place 110 Groot Begijnhof Leuven 76 Guiette House and Studio

B

Basketbar Belgian Comic Strip Center Bicycle Storage BOUW RAI I BOUW RAI II Bruges, Belgium Brussels Detail Map Brussels Detail Map Brussels Detail Map Brussels Detail Map Brussels, Belgium

D

32 60 90 90 44 93

H

Health Care Center Het Ousten Pavilion Horta Museum Hotel Tassel Housing Eigen_Haard Hufkens Gallery

I

58 IJ - Tower 66 ING Group Headquarters

K

118 Kunsthal Rotterdam

L

135 La Capanna Spaceboxes 108 Leuven Detail Map 18 Leuven, Belgium

131 59 51 68 83

M

Minnaert Building Montessori College Oost Mother’s House Municipal Technical Building Music Instrument Museum

N

52 NEMO - National Center for Science

and Technology

117 Netherlands Architecture Institute 102 Netherlands Dance Theater 133 NMR Laboratory

O

64 Open Lucht School

91 92 20 32

124 132 114 22

60 50 69 44 46 104 30

102 61 82 110

P

Palace of Justice Palais Stoclet Paris, France Polygoon Primary School

R

Rietveld Schroeder House Ronald McDonald House Rotterdam Detail Map Rotterdam, Netherlands

97 94 134 45 122 124 125 24

U

UCL Medical Campus ULB Auditorium University Library Urban Design and Housing Utrecht Detail Map Utrecht Detail Map Utrecht Town Hall Utrecht, Netherlands

V

84 Van Eetvelde 65 Van Gogh Museum Addition 74 Van Roosmalen House

W

84 Waucquez Stores 4 Western Europe 66 World Trade Center A’dam

Y

116 Youth Accomodations

Z

74 Zuiderterras Café

S

Scheepstimmermanstraat Scheepvaarthuis Schiphol Airport Shell Polymers Centre Silo Dam Souterrain Entrance Stadhuis Almere

T

The Resident The Whale Theatre Royal de la Monnaie Townhouse & Church

Buildings

Alphabetical by Name

34 30 39 31 33 38 38 32 32 30

64 54 52 53 46 58 54 50 60 44 58 66 59 51 68 52 64 60 50 69 44 46 61 45 65 66

Almere, Netherlands Almere Central Station ANNO Restaurant BOUW RAI I BOUW RAI II De Bombardon School De Fantasie De Realiteit Health Care Center Polygoon Primary School Stadhuis Almere

Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Orphanage Amsterdam Public Library Anne Frank House Museum ARCAM Architecture Center Bicycle Storage College of Fine Arts De Wallen “Red Light District” Exchange -Beurs Het Ousten Pavilion Housing Eigen_Haard IJ - Tower ING Group Headquarters Montessori College Oost Mother’s House Municipal Technical Building NEMO - National Center for Science and Technology Open Lucht School Scheepstimmermanstraat Scheepvaarthuis Schiphol Airport Shell Polymers Centre Silo Dam The Whale Urban Design and Housing Van Gogh Museum Addition World Trade Center A’dam

75 76 74 74

96 85 92 86 87 86 82 90 90 93 83 91 92 82 97 94 84 84

103 102 104 102

Antwerp, Netherlands Apartment ‘De Kaai’ Guiette House and Studio Van Roosmalen House Zuiderterras Café

Brussels, Belgium

Atomium Belgian Comic Strip Center Ceca House Central Railway Station Dexia Tower European Parliment Grande Place Horta Museum Hotel Tassel Hufkens Gallery Music Instrument Museum Palace of Justice Palais Stoclet Theatre Royal de la Monnaie UCL Medical Campus ULB Auditorium Van Eetvelde Waucquez Stores

Den Hague, Netherlands City Hall and Library Netherlands Dance Theater Souterrain Entrance The Resident

Leuven, Belgium

111 De Blauwput Youth Hostel 110 Groot Begijnhof Leuven 110 Townhouse & Church

116 118 118 117 116

134 132 126 124 126 130 130 135 131 133 124 132 134 125

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Café del Unie Erasmus Bridge Kunsthal Rotterdam Netherlands Architecture Institute Youth Accomodations

Utrecht, Netherlands

Basketbar Cambridgelaan Housing Centraal Museum Chauffeur’s Residence Double House Economics and Management Educatorium La Capanna Spaceboxes Minnaert Building NMR Laboratory Rietveld Schroeder House Ronald McDonald House University Library Utrecht Town Hall

Buildings

Alphabetical by Location

4-5 Google Earth 6-7 Google Earth 8-9 Google Earth 10-11 Google Earth Earth 20-21 Google Earth 22-23 Google Earth 24-25 Google Earth 28-29 http://icons.bookings.net/images/hotel/org/258/258775.jpg 31 Google h t t p : / / w w w . a l m e r e n j o y. n l / G e z o n d h e i d s c e n t r u m F W _ 3 5 0 . j p g jpg  34  http://www.flickr.com/photos/thukral/2862693375/sizes/o/  36project38.php  38TB  http://www.archdaily.com/9954/project-x-rene-vanEarth    42-43  Google Earth  44T  ksa.wmc.ohio-state.edu/public/index. php  45  www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=project&id=5 flickr.com/photos/bezelyeb/2249839395/  48-49  Google Earth  50T  http:// holland.com/global/cities/amsterdam/architecture/scheepvaarthuis. galinsky.com/buildings/nemo/index.htm  52T  www.flickr.com/photos/ architecture_center.htm  54T  www.designws.com/pagina/1bibliotheekadam. Earth  58T  http://www.mimoa.eu/images/1501_l.jpg  58B  www.mimoa. c o m /a r t i c o l i /a r t i c o l o. p h p ? i d = 6 6 5 & s e z = 3 & t i t = M o n t e s s o r i - C o l l e g e , com/photos/laurenmanning/2317892559/  60B  http://www.flickr.com/ architecture/residential/the-whale,-amsterdam.aspx  6 2 - 6 3   Google E e r s t e % 2 0 O p e n l u c h t s c h o o l   6 4 B   w w w. a r c h i t e c t u r e . c o m /A w a r d s / com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1230_206/ai_55778098/  66T  www.galinsky. buildingautomation/references/wtcamsterdam/  68T  Google Earth  68B  www. org/wiki/Schiphol_Airport    72-73  Google Earth  74T  http://www.flickr. photos/gebba1/3229595540/sizes/l/  75  http://www.neutelings-riedijk. Ea r t h   7 6 B   h t t p : / / s t a t i c . p a n o ra m i o. c o m / p h o t o s / o r i g i n a l /2 56 8 3 4 9 . wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monnaie  83  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanyEetvelde.html  84B  www.comicscenter.net/en/about-us/a-masterpiece-ofworld/station/brussels.htm  86B  europa.eu/institutions/inst/parliament/ 89  Google Earth  90T  www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Tassel_House  90B  www. brussel/brussels-palace_of_justice.htm  92T  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoclet_ ceca/  93  www.xavierhufkens.com/about/?history  94  en.wikipedia.org/ o r g / w i k i /A t o m i u m   9 7 T   G o o g l e Ea r t h   9 7 B   h t t p : / / w w w. f l i c k r. c o m / www.mimoa.eu/images/875_l.jpg  102B  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ N04/2790889919/  104  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan/533046693/    108org/wiki/Groot_Begijnhof_(Leuven)  111  http://www.leuven-hostel.com/ wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Mauritsweg_Rotterdam.jpg  116B  http://www.nai. photos/faceme/2977537163/sizes/o/  118T  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ image64.webshots.com/164/4/83/13/501548313vHJXsA_fs.jpg    122-123  Google photos.travellerspoint.com/1/21350004.jpg  125  http://www.flickr.com/ photos/jamesandrus/211166943/sizes/o/  126B  http://www.eropuit.nl/ Earth  1 3 0 T   http://lh5.ggpht.com/_iynGL9ADl30/RpvQvn9_0CI/ com/photos/26849514@N06/3432528046/  131  http://www.flickr.com/ stuey_g/61399543/sizes/o/  132B  http://www.mostudio.es/assets/images/ UNStudio.jpg  134T  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartvandamme/3352039432/ bartvandamme/3257000879/sizes/l/  135  http://www.flickr.com/photos/

12-13 Google Earth 14-15 Google Earth 16-17     Google Earth 18-19 Google Google Earth 30T  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dages/3430539107/ 30B Earth 32T http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorcasino/2931063893/ 32B 33 http://www.architectuurstudioamsterdam.nl/custom_images/Alos1. 37  Google Earth  38TT  http://www.architectuurprijsalmere.nl/projecten/ zuuk/  38B  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dysturbnet/3039504182/  39  Google cfm?WorkID=10682  44B  www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/218. 01&Itemid=10  46T  www.vmxarchitects.nl/project_82.html  46B  http://www. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Beurs1.jpg  50B  www. jsp  5 1   european-architecture.info/HOLLAN D/AMS-B10.htm  5 2 T   www. hazboy/2543044047/  53  www.e-architect.co.uk/amsterdam/amsterdam_ h t m l   5 4 B   h t t p : / / b l o g . m r s e b. c o. u k / t a g /a m s t e r d a m /   5 6 - 5 7   G o o g l e eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/IJ%20tower  59  www.floornature. A m s t e r d a m - E s t , - H o l a n d a . - H e r m a n - H e r t z b e r g e r   6 0 T   w w w. f l i c k r. p h o t o s /c a r o l y n h a n k /2 6 2 46 3 1 8 1 6 / s i z e s / o /   6 1   w w w 1 . c i e . n l / p r o j e c t s / E a r t h   6 4 T   w w w. m i m o a . e u / p r o j e c t s / N e t h e r l a n d s /A m s t e r d a m / RoyalGoldMedal/175Exhibition/WinnersBiogs/1990s/1990.aspx  65  findarticles. com/buildings/ing/index.htm  6 6 B   www.gti-group.com/en/products/ clausenkaan.com/?mn=2&lang=en  69T  Google Earth  69B  en.wikipedia. com/photos/klaasfotocollectie/3032254994/  74B  http://www.flickr.com/ com/content/images/48d00eb5da90ca7b48ba5e6f05180130.jpg  76T  Google jpg    80-81  Google Earth  82T  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Place  82B  en. kely/3188666241/sizes/o/  84T  www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Hotel_van_ art-nouveau  85  www.comicscenter.net/en/home  86T  www.2747.com/2747/ index_en.htm  87  http://www.colourlovers.com/uploads/2008/01/db.jpg  88destination360.com/europe/belgium/horta-museum  91  www.trabel.com/ Palace  92B  http://www.steelconstruct.com/references/fiches/belgium/ wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Libre_de_Bruxelles  96T  Google Earth  96B  wikipedia. photos/idawanie_83/2761699123/    100-101  Google Earth  102T  http:// haagsuitburo/2872387015/  103  http://www.flickr.com/photos/26343079@ 109  Google Earth  110T  www.econ.kuleuven.be  110B  http://nl.wikipedia. faq_en.html    114-115  Google Earth  116T  http://upload.wikimedia.org/ nl/mmbase/images/44359/0511_mecanoo_09.jpg  117  http://www.flickr.com/ archintentlouisville/329993962/sizes/o/in/set-72157594432982407/  118B  http:// Earth  124T  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimwich/2640649956/  124B  http:// photos/jamesandrus/211167150/sizes/o/  1 2 6 T   http://www.flickr.com/ i m a g e s / 6 2 5 x 4 6 7 /c e n t r a a l _ m u s e u m _ u t r e c h t . j p g   1 2 4 - 1 2 5   G o o g l e AAAAAAAABx4/MPeLhoz120c/s720/DSCN1282.JPG  130B  http://www.flickr. photos/rosskirby/101415376/sizes/o/  132T  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ McD_ext.jpg  133  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/NMR_ sizes/l/in/set-72157615183731362  1 3 4 B   http://www.flickr.com/photos/ bartvandamme/3257770844/ 

Picture Credits

ARCHI-GUIDE 2009

Editors

James Donovan Greg Hemmelgarn Zach Pauls

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