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Jongerenhuisvesting Kruisplein Strictly speaking, Mecanoo did not yet exist when the competition for flexible student housing was... Designers: Mecanoo |
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Berlage designs this mausoleum for the World Expo in Paris in 1889. The monument consists... Designers: Hendricus Petrus Berlage |
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The pier in Zandvoort was the crowning glory of a new total landscape between Amsterdam... Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld |
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In 1903 the American businessman and pacifist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) provided one-and-a-half million dollars for... Client: Carnegie Stichting Designers: Hendricus Petrus Berlage, Willem Kromhout and Hendrik Wijdeveld |
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'Suspension bridge' maisonettes With his complex of maisonettes and shops on Dijkgraafplein square in Amsterdam, Kloos showed that... Designers: J.P. Kloos |
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Alexander Polder housing development How far can you go as a designer? What are the limitations to increases in... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema and Johannes Hendrik van den Broek |
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Apartment buildings A and B, in A. Due to uniform architecture and the massive scale of postwar housing blocks, anonymity and disorientation... Designers: Allert Warners and Filip Anne Warners |
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In the second half of 1931, J.J.P. Oud is working on the last of his... Designers: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud |
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Drienerlo student accommodation For the student housing on the campus in Drienerlo, architect Jan Verhoeven devised a clever... Designers: Jan Verhoeven |
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Things could not be permitted to become overly minimal. Prior to the Second World War,... Designers: J.P. Kloos |
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First municipal housing development Tempted by the opportunity of designing a new town hall, on 7 January 1915 Dudok... Client: Gemeente Hilversum Designers: Willem Marinus Dudok |
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The village of Nagele in the North-East polder is a perfect example of modern urban... Client: Directie Wieringermeer Designers: Mien Ruys |
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One of the most well-known and controversial residential projects in Rotterdam is probably De Peperklip.... Client: Gemeentelijk Woningbedrijf Rotterdam Designers: Carlos José Maria Weeber |
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Housing Complex Sint Antoniesbreestraat (Pentagon) In 1971 the construction of the metro in the Nieuwmarkt area of Amsterdam occasions an... Designers: Theo Bosch and Aldo van Eyck |
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Housing Complex Spaarndammerplantsoen (Het Schip) Of the three social housing developments on the Spaarndammerplantsoen it is the third project, built... Designers: Michel de Klerk |
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Housing Development Westerdokstrook / Bickerseiland From the 1950s onwards, several neighbourhoods in Amsterdam are in urgent need of renewal; plans... Designers: Paul de Ley |
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A wonderful chaos, vitality and a whole range of opportunities to bump into someone for... Designers: Piet Blom |
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In 1959, a youthful and inspired Herman Hertzberger made a sensational study model using matchboxes... Designers: Herman Hertzberger |
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Throughout almost his entire working life, Gerrit Rietveld attempted to put the idea of the... Designers: Gerrit Rietveld |
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The socialist J.C. Van Epen (1880-1960) enters his Troelstra resort scheme in a limited competition... Designers: Johannes Christiaan van Epen |
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Cooperation is a virtue
Everyone feels unique, yet is part of a community. Pure individuality is almost non-existent. Since our births we have been influenced by society, which moulds us and teaches us how to live together. Most especially, collective housing development creates cohesion and makes life within a community visible. Dutch residential districts are carefully composed spaces, in which the component parts and the whole form a unified entity. The social housing of the Netherlands is famous far beyond the country’s borders, but is it still as forceful and as communal as a century ago?
The board of De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam decided in 1948 that a new bank...