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Photo: Luuk Kramer
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Photos: Luuk Kramer
The beginning idea of the plan of OMA for the Almere centre, 1994, was based on the superposition of uses, with an emphasis on pedestrians and the buildings. This block, which is home to the main commercial centre is paradigmatic regarding its variety of uses, from the car park and the underground infrastructures up to the inhabited green covering. Portzamparc's development of the Master Plan guidelines has a few changes and the deck is, after all, not a public space, but a bonus for the resi.
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Photo: César San Millán
Studio Boot + Hilberinkbosch Architecten. Studio Boot. ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The Netherlands
The latest issue of a+t magazine, Reclaim - Domestic Actions 2, analyzes 34 refurbishing actions carried out on both private dwellings and collective housing. It rounds off the Reclaim series, which arose from an environmental sense of reclaiming land, objects, infrastructures and materials.
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The latest issue of a+t magazine, Domestic Actions 2, rounds off the Reclaim series, which arose from an environmental sense of reclaiming land, objects, infrastructures and materials.
This new volume, on refurbishing dwellings, analyzes actions carried out on both private dwellings and collective housing.
Through work such as that by architects Lacaton & Vassal, a+t invites you to reconside.
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Photo: Luuk Kramer
This project is part of an archipelago in the most eastern part of the Water-area at Ypenburg The Hague (more about this area in a+t 19). It consists of 120 single-family-houses and 8 group houses for mentally and physically handicapped people. The project is based on the urban development schedule of the architectural office MVRDV, (more...)
Photo: Jesús Granada
The need to protect against the strong winds prevailing in the Strait of Gibraltar has led to the development of the niche-dwelling. The carpentry and the glazing of the facade cannot be open to the elements, so the dwellings are protected by terraces and an exterior skin of metal mesh.
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Photo: Adriano A. Biondo




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