by Bas | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog
‘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...
by wphelpdesk | Oct 9, 2018 | Blog
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...
by wphelpdesk | Dec 29, 2017 | Blog
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...
by wphelpdesk | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog
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...
by wphelpdesk | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog
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...
by wphelpdesk | Mar 20, 2017 | Blog
Now that the crisis is over, plans are being made on a large scale and at high speed to build houses again. Many of these are needed, about one million, mostly smaller town houses, in building volume approximately the city of Amsterdam. These houses must therefore be...