Tag Frans Parthesius

15-12-2022

De Baes Architects sustainable renovation for the West Side Residence

Set in a modernist complex with little architectural value along the coast of Knokke in Belgium, the West Side Residence was an old and dilapidated structure. The renovation project by De Baes Architects has transformed it into a high-quality, high-performing residential building in terms of energy and sustainability.

26-11-2021

Studioninedots’ Villa Fifty-Fifty

Villa Fifty-Fifty is a home on the outskirts of Eindhoven by the Dutch architects of Studioninedots. As the name suggests, the project adopts an equal approach to the subdivision between inside and outside, proposing a solution ensuring continuity and making it impossible to distinguish between the garden outside and the space inside. The attempt to go beyond this distinction fits into the line of contemporary research in the area of hybrid and shared living.

19-02-2021

Westbeat designed by Studioninedots: combining private residences with public space in Amsterdam

The Dutch architects of Studioninedots have completed construction of Westbeat, a sculptural residential building in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district. Westbeat stands out with a base composed of eighty-six spectacularly interwoven arches of different shapes and sizes, containing a 3250 square metre superspace designed for public use, a flexible structure in which to experiment with new forms of socialisation incorporating a number of pedestrian crossings through the building.

19-02-2021

Studioninedots’ brick and concrete Westbeat

Westbeat is a building arranged around a courtyard containing apartments, offices and a new kind of common area featuring concrete arches and brick cladding.

30-06-2020

Planet Netherlands: 20 years of Dutch architecture online

Dok Architecten, Kaan Architecten, MVRDV, Next Architects, Maurice Nio, OMA/AMO, UNStudio and Wiel Arets Architects are only a few of the Dutch architectural practices involved in Planet Netherlands, an online exhibition promoted by the Embassy and the General Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy through its social media profiles, put together in partnership with The Architecture Player. The projects represented include both private homes and public spaces and buildings, all involved in the search for and experimentation with new solutions for the home and the city.

03-11-2017

SpazioFMG exhibition: TU Delft + MVRDV The Why Factory

From 8th November the Milan gallery of Iris ceramica e FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti will host an exhibition dedicated to research by The Why Factory, the workshop created from the partnership between MVRDV and the Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture.