Amsterdam

With the start of the construction of De Puls, the first urban forest at height in Amsterdam is welcomed to the Zuidas. De Puls is a high-quality, circular building, a place where people can live, learn, work and relax in comfort. De Puls is completely self-sufficient and is an icon for liveability and sustainability. The municipality of Amsterdam has set high standards for the quality of the housing, circularity, sustainability, urban nature, mobility and public facilities. Use, biodiversity and water form the three main themes for the landscape design. These themes form a coherent whole and, moreover, make a connection with the economic model of De Puls. Green as an inseparable part of the entire plan. The green plan integrates ecologica... En savoir plus

DELVA's Thuishaven, or Homebase in Dutch, is located on the site of the former De Gekroonde Valk brewery. We have developed the Thuishaven entirely by the DELVA philosophy: the creation of an inclusive city, a mix of living, working and accommodation under one roof, with sustainable energy generation and use of circular materials.  Sebastian van Damme In the design, the original building from the 1960s was largely preserved and transformed into a place where people work, live and where also guest rooms are accommodated. The different functions together form the DNA of the place and the various activities in the building bring life to the neighbourhood.  Sebastian van Damme As a new ecology in the middle of the city, th... En savoir plus

De Ceuvel is a former shipyard in the docks of Buiksloterham Amsterdam. Because of the economic crisis, the polluted and abandoned shipyard was not remediated or further developed, but the City of Amsterdam and Noordwaarts made the area available for ten years for the most innovative plan.  The winning plan, 'Zuiverend Park De Ceuvel' by DELVA, Space&Matter and Studio Valkenier, proposed an organically growing incubator. Abandoned houseboats that have been restored and reused as temporary accommodation for innovative businesses are central to the design. Around them lies an ingenious green park that purifies the soil and prepares it for future redevelopment. Caption The pollution in the soil and water will not be solved in a... En savoir plus

A narrow spit of land between the eastern bank of the IJ, the railway embankment and the Piet Heinkade was part of the redevelopment of the eastern harbour area by the Amsterdam Department of Urban Planning (DRO) in the 1990s. The urban development concept included a series of interconnected building zones. In this so-called ‘train of buildings’, a part of the old warehouses was to be preserved and integrated into the planning. Caption   Rapp+Rapp created the urban design for one of these building zones, in which an extremely high building density had to be realised. Following New York’s zoning law, urban guidelines were formulated for the daylighting, the massing, and the intended robust character by which the... En savoir plus

This hotel in Amsterdam is the largest Holiday Inn Express in Europa. It is located on the northern shore of the IJ-lake, is 45 meters high, consists of 2 towers, has 14 floors and 438 rooms and a magnificent view of Amsterdam. The almost 11.000m2 of cladding were anodised by Alumet in the colour AluGold03.Anodised aluminium has multiple advantages. It is very durable and corrosion resitant. Colours are UV resitant thus colourfast. Anodised aluminium retains its metal character and can easily be cleaned. It is part of the circular economy as it can be 100% recycled and therefore re-used.  En savoir plus

Along the water Just west of Amsterdam’s Central Station a new extension of Amsterdam is being built. Of the three Houthavens (Timberdocks), the middle one is being transformed into a residential area. The Pontsteiger building is the 90-meter high icon that functions as the landmark of this development. It is a robust, square building towering above the water in a bend of the river IJ. A dam connects the building to the Tasmanstraat. The entrance to the two underground parking garages is also to be found on this dam. One garage serves the residents and users of the Pontsteiger building, the other one is a municipal parking with a capacity of 277 cars for permit holders in the Tasman neighbourhood. This one, the Pontsteiger parking ga... En savoir plus

Hotel Boat & Co is one of the latest sustainable architectonic icons with a hint to the Amsterdam School. The almost energy neutral hotel has an EPC of 0,041. This design shows, that a robust brick facade can be combined beautifully with aluminium window frames. The 330 window frames are anodised in the latest Alumet colour AluBronze335. The hotel is designed in such a way, that it can easily be repurposed. En savoir plus

Between Amsterdam and Almere It seems an odd question: is it possible to drastically improve the infrastructure of the northern part of the Randstad, between Diemen and Almere, and at the same time preserve the Dutch landscape and improve ecological values? The question becomes even more odd when one realizes that this entails a stretch of motorway of 23 kilometers, where extra lanes are added to the A1 and A6 and some 50 structures including bridges, ecoducts, bicycle tunnels, fly overs and even an aquaduct leading under a river are part of the plan. And yet, one can conclude that the answer to this odd question can be a resounding yes. This complex infrastructural landscape is part of a larger project to improve the connection between S... En savoir plus

Have you ever noticed the waves that hide inside brown cardboard boxes which move silently and unobtrusively through the world? They are in the material itself, a thin sheet of paper undulating between two thicker sheets of cardboard. These paper waves create space and structure. By trapping air and a having a crushable zone, corrugated cardboard is light, strong and even insulating and protective. For the design of The Timeless Box, a skybox in the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam, commissioned by Hans van Veggel and Timeless Investments, the architectural office ZJA applied this everyday material, but ignored all the useful qualities. It is about the beauty that can be generated by a combined action of two types of waves: mechanically re... En savoir plus

For years, Stadionplein in Amsterdam was best known as a boarding point for holiday buses and because of the Febo on the square. Once conceived as a temporary parking space for the 1928 Olympic Games, the square was never really finished; nor did it when the Amstelveenseweg was connected to the Amsterdam ring road, effectively making the square an entrance to the city. Based on the urban master plan that Floris Alkemade / OMA drew up in close consultation with local residents, the square has been redesigned by West 8. Two buildings, a residential building with a mixed program and a hotel, branch on the block structure devised by Berlage. This also enhances the experience of one of the most beautiful and surely the longest urban sightline i... En savoir plus

With Het Oog, DELVA is creating an innovative (underwater) landscape park that connects the two islands of Strandeiland in Amsterdam IJburg. With 8,000 homes, the second phase of Strandeiland is one of the largest future districts in the city. Het Oog is the 'green-blue' living room of the new area, a place that promotes water ecology and offers space for recreation in nature.  Winding water edges in the new topography create ideal conditions for a mix of rich reed beds, natural banks, shallow areas with semi- or fully submerged aquatic plants, grassy meadows and more densely wooded areas. The area naturally purifies the rainwater collected and variation in soil depths creates the possibility of a self-purifying water landscape. ... En savoir plus