April - May - June 1998 Beware! The links in past news articles are not maintained.
Aalto in the NAI
June 4, 1998  Friday June 19, the third Vinex On Site debate will
take place in the Chassé Theater in Breda. After locations in North
and East Netherlands, this time the spotlight will be on Vinex plans of
five different cities in the province of North Brabant. Two of the Brabant
plans: Haverleij in 's-Hertogenbosch and Brandevoort in Helmond differ from
the average Vinex plans. Nostalgia and security as alternative.
May 21, 1998  On May 20th in Groningen, The Eo Wijers foundation presented the prizes
of the fifth competition which this organisation has organised for the promotion
of designing on an above local scale level. The assignment was entirely
in the spirit of the time: how to deal with an empty program. The participants
were asked to generate ideas for the landscape development of the North
of the Netherlands. Out of the 57 entries two first prizes, one second,
a third prize and five incentive prizes were chosen. In total, fl 80,000
was given out in prize money.
May 14, 1998  The Delft architectural firm Cepezed
has won the manifold contract for a large scale expansion of the head office
of Porsche in Stuttgart, Germany. Initially a customer centre ('Kundenzentrum')
will be realised that will also serve as an example for other locations
of this renowned car manufacturor.
May 4, 1998 Friday May 1st, the Nomadic Pavilion was opened in the atrium of the Hague's City Hall. Until September 15th this pavilion will function as 'temporary encampment' for several activities in the area of plastic arts, music, theatre, architecture and media technology. The activities around the pavilion take place in the framework of the Hague 750 years. During this coming summer the 'IJspaleis' (Ice Palace) will be heated with seminars, theatre performances, exhibitions, design and art installations and several computer applications.
April 20, 1998  Today the design for the new building of the Dutch Embassy in Germany
by Rem Koolhaas (OMA) will be presented. The embassy is situated on a not
too spectacular spot at the bank of the river Spree. This inspired Koolhaas
nevertheless to deliver an enlightened design criticising at the very same
moment the conservative conceptions on architecture predominating Berlin
during the last years.
April 3, 1998 paraSITE, the 20 metre long interactive, inflatable sculpture building from Attila returns to the Netherlands after a European Tour. As of April 16th it will be set up in the atrium of The Hague's city hall. Maybe paraSITE -loaded with images and sounds during the tour- is capable of thawing out the IJspaleis (Ice palace).
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On the occasion of the fact that he was born hundred years ago, the
Finnish museum for architecture constructed the travelling exhibition Alvar
Aalto in Seven Works which can be seen until August 16th in the large hall
of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. How can you bring
together the versatile life's work of this master in an exhibition?
