January - February - March 2000

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25 Informal Kilovolts
March 2000
Situated in the Lloyds harbour area of Rotterdam, this multi-company building for businesses and artists active in the media sector, designed by architect and Archined colleague Robert Winkel, is now almost complete. The staff at Archined have witnessed at close hand the ups and downs of the design and construction process of this '25kV building' as it is known. And we're just as proud as Robert, not to mention somewhat astonished, that the original, radical concept - a completely transparent facade containing glazed toilets and glazed kitchenettes - has survived unscathed through the jungle of officialdom and regulations.

InfoArcadia - an exhibition on information
February 2000
Untill 22nd of April the Centre for Plastic Arts in The Hague, Stroom, shows the exhibition InfoArcadia. This exhibition deals with the different forms in which information can be represented, through graphics, schemes, charts and many other interfaces.
Information design, as a (graphic) discipline concerning the clear and understandable representation of flows of information, has become a specialism constantly gaining importance. InfoArcadia researches the various approaches this new discipline uses and explores the role of the computer and new media in relation to the 'older' (but in some cases far more efficient) forms of communication like the conversation or the book.

Trans-ports, web-event on moving architecture
February 2000
Can buildings move? Aside from some gentle swaying in the wind, not really. That is unless the Trans-ports experiment succeeds in its ambition to produce a really moving architecture. Movement that is generated in part from the Internet. Thursday 24 February (15.00 CET) architect Kas Oosterhuis and critic Ole Bouman will present this project in the Rotterdam Architecture Institute. The event can be attended by surfing to the website or to the special 'dialog space' in Alpha World.

Neutra - Van der Leeuw House
February 2000
The combination of a visionary client and sufficient funds to realise an architectonical ideal together with the right architect is rare, but crucial for the development and the acceptation of a new architecture. In the Netherlands the director of Van Nelle, C.H. van der Leeuw, is the most appealing example of a stimulating construction lord.
Without his stimulating involvement in his contracts in the twenties and thirties for amongst others the famous Van Nelle factory and his own home located at the Rotterdam Kralingse Plas, the architects Leen van der Vlugt and with him the group of young architects of the New Building would have missed an important laboratory for their new architecture.

Holls mystical walls
February 2000
The American architect Steven Holl is building the new main office for the building corporation "Het Oosten" at the Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam. The new office will be located in the renovated former Rijksmagazijn van Geneesmiddelen (Governmental storage for Medicines), dating from 1889. At the backside of the building Holl also designed a pavilion next to the water.

New Babylon: the value of dreaming the city of tomorrow
January 2000
Twenty years after last great lecture by Constant Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam 1920, co-founder of the CoBrA movement and the Situationist International) on his magnum opus 'New Babylon', held at the faculty of Architecture in Delft, Platform LINK returns to the scene of the crime in 'New Babylon: the value of dreaming the city of tomorrow'. On 26 and 27 January 2000 the Faculty of Architecture will be the venue of a two-day conference, inspired by Constant's dream of 'Unitary urbanism'. The aim of this symposium is to stimulate a debate on the value of utopian thought for architecture and urban planning.