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Game board City of the future
Multi-disciplinary research group TRIANGLE ( with Tangram as chairman) presented its first outcomes of the design study The City of the future at the municipality of Eindhoven and a few days later at the ‘PROVADA’ in Amsterdam (the yearly large scale real estate conference). First step is a real game board visualizing the many choices […]
Submission Kavel 14 IJburg completed
Tangram deliverd the plan for Kavel 14 on IJburg, the new ‘Centrum Island’. Intense collaboration with advisors Hiensch Engineering ( energy and installations) Pieters ( construction) and NIBE ( Dutch institute for building biologics and ecologics) ended up in a revolutionary design for circular housing.
Pop-up exhibition Bright tower
Sunday June 17th Charlotte ten Dijke gave a presentation about the new project Bright / OurDomain. Located under the Wijnhaven bridge, down town Rotterdam, many different spectators came to listen to her explanations: neighborhood residents, students, local politicians and other bystanders. With free fries!
Builders Day Rhapsody in West
On so called ‘Builders Day (June 2) SSB/deNijs opened the Rhapsody building site in Amsterdam West for public. Architect Bart Mispelblom Beyer presented the design process and collaboration with neighborhood residents, followed by a site visit. Local residents treated the many visitors with Ethiopian Coffee and Turkish cookies.
A home for the elderly: Zuidoever
April 5, 2018, the go-ahead has been given for the construction of Zuidoever, a new residential institution for demented and somatic elderly people in Amsterdam. This group of people who need a lot of care is often ‘forgotten’. Tangram and client Cordaan want to change that. Not tucked away Zuidoever is an environment where the […]
Housing Beatrixlaan The Hague
For Peak Development and APF International as client and investor, Tangram designed a plan for housing and other facilities at the former KPN location at the Beatrixlaan in The Hague. The plan has been received positively by the municipality. After technical research at the site, the next planning phase can be started. We target at a […]
Rhapsody in West is gaining height
The volumes of the apartment blocks of the in Bos en Lommer neighbourhood located residential project is already gaining height. Completion is expected at the end of 2018. Link: Rhapsody in West
Tangram is working on the City of the Future!
Tangram Architekten has been selected to work in a multidisciplinary team on a design study for ‘The city of the future’. This year we are going to study at the test location Fellenoord in Eindhoven. In total there are five test locations of 1 x 1 km in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven. […]
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 (33) on this opinion page about Purmerend, after she […]
Rhapsody’s forms are beginning to take shape
Amsterdam, 23 november 2017 Rhapsody, located in Amsterdam West neighbourhood Bos en Lommer, is rapidly progressing. The curved forms of each apartment block are beginning to take shape. Completion is expected at the end of 2018. Link: Rhapsody in West
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 there, the Pavlov reaction came from the mouths of the administrators, in […]
Rhapsody: construction in full swing
Picture shows full activity on the construction site. Completion to be expected late 2018. Since spring 2017 the construction of Rhapsody, located in Amsterdam West has been in full swing. The forms of this Bos en Lommer residential project are beginning to take shape and by late 2018 the 239 dwellings, each with private parking, are […]
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 approach was also not illogical. “At the top” is after […]
Rhapsody in West: neighborhood participation in shape
After a two years period of intensive collaboration with Bos en Lommer neigborhood residents, led by artistscollective ‘Cascoland’, ideas come to development. Invester CBRE and developers de Nijs and Smits agreed in facilitate common functions like exchange libray for materials and tools, space for courses and cooking , a small non commercial hotel function and […]
Dicht op elkaar voor lager energiegebruik
We zitten inmiddels in de derde week van de onderhandelingen die moeten leiden tot een nieuw kabinet. Wat wordt besproken komt maar mondjesmaat naar buiten, maar hoog op de politieke agenda staat in elk geval het verminderen van het energieverbruik van gebouwen. Dit is belangrijk voor het reduceren van het gebruik van natuurlijke grondstoffen en […]
The future of spatial planning must play a role in formation
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 built, but we note that the large cities […]
Rhapsody Building construction start
The construction of the Rhapsody project started. The project includes the construction of an urban ensemble comprising 239 homes, private parking facilities, commercial space in the plinth and a publicly accessible courtyard. An intensive program will see that neighborhood residents are well informed about thebuilding activities. Completion is scheduled for mid-2018 For more information on […]
press-release GALAXY TOWER Utrecht
Utrecht, February 10 2017 Spoorwegpensioenfonds and Stichting Pensioenfonds Openbaar Vervoer buy 330 new high quality apartments in Utrecht from Amrâth Hotels. On behalf of Stichting Spoorwegpensioenfonds and Stichting Pensioenfonds Openbaar Vervoer, Amrâth Hotels & Restaurants and SPF Beheer have signed an agreement for the sale of 330 free sector rental apartments in the project “Galaxy Tower ‘located on […]
Raadhuisplein Drachten nominated
Drachten Raadhuisdplein is selected on the shortlist for the ‘Vredeman de Vries Award for Architecture’. End of october the final selection will be published.
Sustainable Hotel-/Residential building Utrecht
Amrath building is to be the trendsetter for the Healthy Urban Quarter, at the west centre of Utrecht. A vivid discussion on the dimensions of sustainability , both generic and applied on the AMRATH building , convinced left wing and liberal parties of Utrecht municipality of the buildings advanced sustainable qualities. Development is proceding- medio […]