Splayed apartment blocks

Rotterdam Ommoord (NL), 1999-2009

4 splayed apartment blocks are extended on the ground flour in order to create new apartments, bicycle storage and collective areas.
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Lakerlopen

Eindhoven (NL), 2004-2010

Of old, people use the street for living in Lakerlopen garden city.
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Maisonettes Oranjeboom

Rotterdam, 2012-2014

For the characteristic Rotterdam Oranjeboomstraat we have developed two blocks of maisonettes in four stories.
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Het Kiel

Antwerp (B), 2010

For the occasion of the one hundredth birthday of the Flemish architect Renaat Braem we were invited by the City Architect of Antwerp and the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAI) to make a development vision for Het Kiel.
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Old and New


'Normally, the ensemble is just a result of the one-sided role of the new architecture which either mimics or contrasts. When one allows that interventions are possible in the available tectonic and stylistic substance, then the context is also adaptable to more radical forms of architecture. A gradual transition of trustworthiness in detail and a stepped scaling of the volumes reconcile every contrast between old and new.'

Miroslav Šik about the Bluecoat