Projects Netherlands: Architecture | Town Planning | Guided Tours | Historic | Miscellaneous

Datawolk Hoeksche Waard (NL) - Experimental internetsite.

Noordhove Island Zoetermeer 1998 - Archipel ontwerpers, the Architecture-Factory, and Harry van Heeswijk present a few projects planned for construction on Noordhove island in Zoetermeer.

Stylos paviljoen (NL) - This site gives full information on the New stylos Pavilion Project, designed and built by students. The winning competition design, building process, sponsors and a chonological overview of the project.

Woldmeer Wetsite (NL) - Extended explanation to a proposal for a new lake east of the city of Groningen within which ecology and architecture are integrated to a complete landscape.

Architecture
Almere in 2005 - About the extension plans for the city-centre of Almere.
Ecokathedraal - article about Louis Le Roy's Eco Kathedral, see also the special site about this project.
NOX: Beachness - Boulevard and New Palace Hotel of Noordwijk aan Zee.
Library TU Delft - About the new library of the Technical University of Delft by Mecanoo. With virtual trip.
Photos Erasmusbridge / Kop van Zuid - photos by Rob 't Hart of the building of the Erasmusbridge.
Construction Utrecht College - Archive of webcam-images of the faculty of Communication and Journalism of the Utrecht College.
Kattenbroek, Amersfoort - About the district of Kattenbroek in Amersfoort by Ashok Balotra. Many pictures.
Kunsthal Rotterdam - Analysis of the Kunsthal by Koolhaas in Rotterdam.
newMetropolis - About the new science center in Amsterdam designed by Renzo Piano. This is the official site. With Quicktime VRs of the construction
RealSpace in QuickTimes - Pavilion by Ben van Berkel for the Triennale di Milano. 28 february-10 may 1996, Milan.
Rembrandttower - About the Rembrandt-tower in Amsterdam (architect Peter de Clerq Zubi and Peter Ellis).
Transparant Amsterdam - The interactive ARCAM-map. With this sophisticated map the future of Amsterdam is mapped.
The VPRO villa by mvrdv. Pictures with comments of the architects.

Town Planning
Amsterdam Plans and Projects - An overview of the most important projects that are planned or executed.
IJburg - About IJburg, plan for the new quarter in Amsterdam on an artificial island.
Het Paleiskwartier Den Bosch - Development of an area close to the historical center and the station.
The Resident, The Hague. - About a town planning project in The Hague. A very nice site with information about the projects and the architects.

Guided Tours
Circus Zandvoort - A trip through Circus Zandvoort by architect Sjoerd Soeters.
ING Tour - A virtual trip through the ING office at the Amsterdamse poort by Alberts & van Huut.
Nederlandse Gasunie, Groningen - Trips through the head office of the N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (gas union) in Groningen, also by Alberts & Van Huut.

Historic (before 1940)
Aubette - The dancing room by Theo van Doesburg in its original condition, to be visited in VRML.
Fluitje van Ravesteyn - Project in Rotterdam dating from 1927 by Sybold van Ravesteyn (1889-1983). Graphical reconstruction of the building that has been demolished in 1992.
Het Top 100 Project - Top 100 of Dutch historic monuments, documented by the faculty of Art and Architectoral History in Groningen.

Miscellaneous
Kunst aan de Zuidas - Nicely designed site about art along the highway A 10, by Gimill Mual and Michael Noordam.
Rietveld's red/blue chair - Popular page about the red-blue chair (1918). Superficial text, some illustrations.

Foreign projects: Architecture | City Planning | Guided Tours | Historic | Miscellaneous

Architecture
20th century Architecture-web (Leiden University) - A WWW-project from Leiden University, in which some highlights from the history of Architecture of the 20th century are documented.
archINFORM - Database with 5.000 project descriptions and biographies of architects. Comprehensive and interesting.
Architectour Italy 96 - Comprehensive information informatie about Italian Architecture; made as a preparation for the Architects Abroad excursion to Italy. From Palladio to Rossi to "Nightlife in Italy".
Cityscope - A virtual visit to the biggest building-site of Europe. Cityscope documents the changes of the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.
Le Fresnoy - Panoramic pictures of Tschumi's National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France.
New York skyscrapers - History and information about some 30 skyscrapers in Manhattan. Each of the skyscrapers is documented in text, images (photos and situation drawings), and relevant links.
SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Mario Botta, one of the biggest museums of modern art in the US.
Xarch - Graz - Experimental architecture server, German.

City Planning
ARCOSANTI - Arcosanti is an experimental project in the Arizona desert by Paolo Solari.

Historic
Architectural Drawings of Temples in Bagan - Comprehensive text about the temples of Bagan, Myanmar; with lots of drawings.
Virtual Study Tour - Virtual reconstructions of several classics of Architecture, with amongst others the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe.
Chicago Tribune Tower - Reconstruction of Adolf Loos' submission for the Chicago Tribune Tower by a German architectural office. A composition picture shows a detailed 3D-model in the actual situation. A typical case of "Never built Loos".
National Trust Properties in England - Almost 300 descriptions of English monuments; many pictures.
Court of Justice Brussels - Everything you wanted to know about this nineteen century showpiece by Joseph Poelaert

Miscellaneous
Planet 9 - Extensive VRML-models of a dozen American cities and some buildings.
Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture - The first museum for architecture that never has been built. Famous but never realized projects of International architects can be seen in CAD images.