Iconic UNESCO World Heritage site in Rotterdam

Actualized edition of the useful guide of the Van Nellefabriek

Accessible introduction to a Rotterdam icon

The iconic Van Nellefabriek is inextricably linked to Rotterdam’s dynamic world port. This modernist masterpiece on the Schie canal was originally built for the processing and packaging of coffee, tea and tobacco. The neon sign on the roof still testifies to this past.

After careful adaptive re-use, the Van Nellefabriek is now used...

Ontdek de schoonheid van kapellen en kerken aan de rand van een stad of verscholen tussen de bomen, waar het zonlicht door het bladerdak valt en prachtige schaduwen werpt op het gebouw. Ze herbergen indrukwekkende kunstwerken van hedendaagse kunstenaars.

Kunst is universeel, of ze nu profaan of sacraal is. Het kruisbeeld van Germaine Richier was aanleiding tot polemiek, en wordt besproken in dit boek. Ook de interpretaties van het kruis door Paul Gauguin, Marc Chagall en Salvador Dali komen ...

In de wederopbouwperiode (1940-1965) werden veel bouwwerken voorzien van kunstwerken. Muurschilderingen, mozaïek, glas-in-lood en (wand-)tapijten werden speciaal ontworpen voor een bepaalde plek in of aan een gebouw. Na jaren van veronachtzaming en sloop, groeit nu de publieke belangstelling voor de wederopbouwperiode en haar bijzondere erfgoed. Deze publicatie vertelt het verhaal van de opkomst, bloei en teloorgang van de wederopbouwkunst in Nederland.Kunstenaars zoals Dick Elffers, Wally E...

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Met ‘permanente tijdelijkheid’ stellen Elma van Boxel en Kristian Koreman met hun bureau ZUS een radicaal nieuwe manier van stad-maken voor. Het is een strategie die vertrekt vanuit een stedelijke realiteit van waarden, materie en mensen; een filosofie die geënt is op het verleden en is gericht op de toekomst. City of Permanent Temporality is een handboek voor stad-maken waarbij tijdelijke interventies zijn gekoppeld aan langetermijndenken.

Aan de hand van de inter...

The use of outriggers in tall buildings is a common practice to reduce response under dynamic loading. Viscous dampers have been implemented between the outrigger and the perimeter columns, to reduce vibrations without increasing the stiffness of the structure. This damped outrigger concept has been implemented for reducing vibrations produced by strong winds. However, its behaviour under strong earthquakes has been not yet properly investigated. Strong earthquakes introduce larger amount of ...

In June 2018, professionals and scholars, from various fields dealing with public open spaces, put politics up for discussion. In the conference series x–LArch at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU/Vienna, issues are raised that are relevant for the profession of landscape architecture and have a direct impact on our environment, be it urban or rural. In the 2018 conference entitled ‘Park Politics’, practitioners and academics were invited to present findings an...

This new book on the Rietveld Schröder House (by Gerrit Th. Rietveld, 1924) sheds light on the thorough restorations of its exterior (1970s) and interior (1980s), and the principles for the furnishing when it opened as a museum house for the public, in 1987.

Since the restorations, carried out by architect Bertus Mulder (b. 1929), the house is once more a shining manifesto of De Stijl and modernist living. Few realize that this is one of the first examples of a restored modern heritage build...

What constitutes the invisible layers of an architecture school? The EAAE Annual Conference of 2019 is titled ‘The Hidden School’, aiming to discuss an architecture school’s true character, the substance and the quality of architectural education in the broadest sense, and that which is beyond the stated curricula, yet — whether concretely manifested or subliminally perceived — embodies the culture of the school.

The conference, hosted in 2019 by the Faculty of Architecture in Zagre...

One of the long-standing issues in corporate real estate (CRE) management is the alignment of an organization’s real estate to its corporate strategy. In the last thirty years, fourteen CRE alignment models have been developed. In these models the objective is to become ‘more aligned’ and in some of them the target is maximum or optimum added value. Extensive research into these models provided valuable insights into building blocks, components and variables that are needed in the align...