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Concrete power for Galaxy Tower
The foundation of the Galaxy Tower on Jaarbeursplein is being poured (36 hours continuous!), according to the site CU ‘k you see in Utrecht. They also mention the impressive numbers: 550 concrete trucks deliver 5,600,000 liters of fresh concrete. All this for a 1.80 meter thick foundation slab that will be placed 8 meters below […]
First Panelox project in Netherlands #OurDomain
Campus tower Bright / OurDomain will have a special facade. The facade consists largely of etched Panelox panels. Most composition panels are lacquered, but a Panelox panel has an anodizing layer. This layer can be etched and made of two colors. That is unique. We have conducted several studies for the etched pattern. We ended […]
Bright/Our Domain connects
Residential tower Bright / OurDomain is the missing link of the city center of Rotterdam. AD news reporter Marcel Potters said in his January 23 column. The tower, which will be under construction this year, will soon connect Wijnhaveneiland, Blaak and Oude Haven. “An illuminated beacon, which also gives the André van der Louwbrug a […]
Bright / OurDomain finally starts
After years of downtime, construction of the OurDomain (formerly Bright) residential tower can be started in February. A resident’s objection halted the construction process for a long time. The 70-meter-high tower will be located in the heart of Rotterdam, next to the André van der Louwbrug and nearby the Markthal. More than 600 tiny apartments […]
Galaxy tower in the top 10
According to Cobouw, Galaxy Tower is one of the ten most remarkable building projects of 2018. It is one of the best viewed projects on Bouwberichten.nl. The 92 meter high tower has only just been under construction on the Utrecht Jaarbeursplein. It is a unique combination of hotel and homes. An Amrâth hotel will be […]
Eindhoven, City of the Future
Newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad interviewed Bart Mispelblom Beyer (as chairman of the Triangel team) and Mauro Parravicini (Urban Arcipelago team) about their visions for the Fellenoord district in Eindhoven. The area Fellenoord / station was one of the five test locations of the design study City of the Future. Both teams opted for a flexible development […]
Final presentation City of the Future
Last Friday was the closing event design study City of the Future. In Pakhuis de Zwijger, 10 teams presented their vision. Team Triangel – chaired by Bart Mispelblom Beyer – showed his fantasy for the Fellenoord district in Eindhoven in 2040. No fill-in exercise with slick renders how it could be, but a new generic […]
Rhapsody in the air
With our project Rhapsody in West we are in the inflight magazine Discover Benelux., in de special Benelux Architecture, under the heading Creating Quality of Life. And that’s the way it is, because Rhapsody is a quirky building in the Amsterdam Kolenkitbuurt (Bos en Lommer) that is already attracting a lot of attention. Because it looks […]
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 example, 64-year-old Johnny Kraaijkamp jr. participaties in Expedition Robinson. Elderly used to be ‘people […]
Start construction Galaxy Tower
In the coming years, a brand new Amrâth hotel will be built on Jaarbeursplein in Utrecht, with houses stacked on it. The 90-meter-high Galaxy Tower will form a link between the residential area behind and the renovated area around CS Utrecht. In about three years’ time we hope to toast again, but then at the […]
King visits Rhapsody
Wednesday 11th, King Willem-Alexander and mayor van Aartsen (The Hague) payed a surprise visit to the building site of Rhapsody in West. Roel Schoenmakers, Captain of artists collective Cascoland, showed the honoured vistors around in the surrounding Kolenkit neighbourhood. Here, citizens participation contributies strongly to liveability. Rhapsody will take its part in the nearby future, […]
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 […]