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A plain wall blocks the view to the house. A gateway in an old garden... Designers: Office for Metropolitan Architecture |
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The Black Madonna in The Hague is one of Carel Weeber’s key projects. With what... Designers: Carlos José Maria Weeber |
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An explicitly theoretical standpoint about architecture lies behind this icon of recent architectural history .... Designers: John Quentin Hejduk |
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Competition design Bank of the Netherlands head quarters The board of De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam decided in 1948 that a new bank... Designers: Marius Frans Duintjer |
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Competition design Nationale Nederlanden The new accommodation of insurance company Nationale Nederlanden in Rotterdam was the subject of a... Designers: Wim Quist |
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Dutch Reformed Church of the Resurrection ‘The Coal-scuttle’ A great need for new churches arises after the Second World War: many have been... Designers: Marius Frans Duintjer |
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Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology For almost forty years, the Faculty of Architecture building was a remarkable feature on the... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema and Johannes Hendrik van den Broek |
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The directors of prestigious companies that wanted a modern office building were at the right... Designers: Adolf Daniël Nicolaas van Gendt |
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He felt maligned, attacked and misunderstood. Critics accused him of working traditionally. With this design... Client: E. Plate Designers: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud |
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The competition for a new Royal Academy of Visual Arts was intended to bring to... Designers: Bernard Bijvoet and Johannes Duiker |
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One of the most remarkable designs in Blom’s oeuvre is the Russian palace he builds... Designers: Piet Blom |
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This is one of the least well-known projects of Gerrit Rietveld, and is a perfect... Designers: Gerrit Rietveld |
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This uncomplicated villa was the client’s vehicle for displaying her good taste. She chose De... Designers: Karel Petrus Cornelis de Bazel |
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Studio Design for a Family Dwelling For several years in the 1960s, painter Joost Baljeu and architect Dick van Woerkom collaborated... Designers: Joost Baljeu and Dick van Woerkom |
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These residential/work units at Zomerdijkstraat were the first complex of studio houses in the Netherlands.... Designers: Piet Zanstra |
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Van Woerkom designs a studio and home for himself and his family; his studio residence... Designers: Dick van Woerkom |
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On 2 April 1920 during a modest ceremony, the final stone of villa Het Reigersnest... Designers: Pieter Vorkink |
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On the southern tip of an elongated, narrow island in the Atlantic Ocean, former land... Client: W. Zeckendorf Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema |
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The luxury of simplicity
Restraint is a recurring theme in Dutch architecture, in the sense of limitation to the essence or in the form of functional architecture. A residence may be small, but can still provide plenty of joy and pleasure. A villa may be large and luxurious, but can still look restrained. Concepts like purity and clarity spring to mind. Hence restraint is one of the core concepts in Dutch architecture, encapsulating eternal values such as beauty, solidity and efficiency. Are such values still to be found in present-day Dutch architecture? Do we still show restraint?
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