Between two worlds

Between two worlds

On the Westfriese Zeedijk in Schoorldam, construction company De Nijs has a partially vacated storage yard. Tangram was tasked with realizing various buildings: a studio building with an office for the owner, semi-detached houses, detached houses, and holiday homes....
Future proofing highrise

Future proofing highrise

‘Is it possible to make highrise corona proof?’, Harm Tilman [editor of de Architect] was asking in his blog of 31 August. His doubt was triggered by the news that the upper floors of many tall office buildings are sitting empty as they have become virtually...
Fine housing for people with dementia

Fine housing for people with dementia

Mick Jagger (75), Tina Turner (79) and the famous Dutch singer Boudewijn de Groot (74), hippies pur sang. Officially retired but unofficially still going strong. The hippie generation is now elderly, but cannot be pigeonholed. Nor the generation that followed. For...
Build for families in the city

Build for families in the city

The migration of families from the four major cities to the outskirts leads to busier trains, a decrease in nature, more traffic jams and a less dense city, warns urban planner Bart Mispelblom Beyer. December 29, 2017 Here the houses have a garden, wrote Anna Krijger...
New Vinex: not the answer to family migration

New Vinex: not the answer to family migration

Building new Vinex locations is not the answer to young families’ demand for more space and more greenery. Last week, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported that more and more parents with small children decide to leave the big city. Immediately here and...
top down and bottum up

top down and bottum up

Urban development today: top down and bottom up It has long been thought that large-scale urban developments could only be realized if the plans were devised by expert architects and investors / developers and then thrown down, as it were, towards users. This top down...