Veenenbos en Bosch

Mooi Mosterdhof: Comprehensive Neighborhood Renewal How do we prepare urban boundaries for the future? Panorama Lokaal was a design competition for creative teams interested in tackling this question, commissioned by local coalitions of municipalities, housing corporations, and other stakeholders. Seven locations throughout the Netherlands, neighborhoods from the 1960’s ‘70’s and 80’, were selected. Teams were […]

Blauwe Golven For years, Blauwe Golven was at the center of a heated urban debate in the city of Arnhem. Should this environmental artwork remain? Is it part of Arnhem’s identity, is it a monument? Is so much paved surface still appropriate in this day and age? Both residents and the local authority were divided […]

The High Park project is about repurposing abandoned office buildings and healing the urban fabric. This is a challenge. Especially when dealing with a building from the brutalist era that has a rather defensive appearance and is engraved in the local, collective memory as such. It takes clever design to take down both the physical […]

Problem In January 1995, 250,000 people were required to evacuate from large parts of the Dutch river area due to the dangerously high water levels of the Rhine, Maas and Waal. As a result, from 2007 onwards, the government started an intensive cooperation with both regional and local parties in the Rhine river area on […]