Slide 18 for the Future 400 talk in New York

Our Dutch projects are mostly mixed-use work/living with
Independent living for the Elderly
30% Social rent @ $1000/month
40% Middle rent @$1400/month
30% Free market @ Market rent

Slide 17 of the Future 400 talk:
Intensifying the city is a long term solution
In Hell’s Kitchen we live in a 15 minute city
The Dutch do not understand that it takes me16 minutes, biking to my parking spot.
The Empire State Building has Zero Parking

Notes from slide 16 for the Future 400 talk.

What NY could learn from NL:

Planning Amsterdam North Industrial area
Owners grouped together (Crazy)
Site passport
FAR assigned
Tower location, height, size and distances
30% business 70% residential
30% Social housing, 40% Affordable rent, 30% Market rate
Welstand

Baseline from which to negotiate

Slide #15 notes for the Future 400 talk:

Almost 400 years, oldest school in New york

Founded by the Dutch

When our kids went there there was still a Dutch headmaster

We love to design schools, following in Hertzberger’s footsteps

Slide 14 of the Future 400 talk:
Listed II* on Eaton square in London
Period rooms (Stijlkamers)
Anything new had to be modern
All the hardware is from PE Guerin New York since 1857
All the leatherwork is from Ellermeijer in Amsterdam
Woodworking company exists since 1200’s

Notes on slide 13 for the Future 400:
We designed the future Factory/ Museum of Spyker Cars
Custom aluminum work with Coventry Prototype Panels
They also made the Heatherwick extrusion.
Custom leather work with Ellermeijer
Exposed us to the best industrial craftsmen in the business and we are using them for custumization in our private projects

Notes for slide #12 of the Future 400 lecture:
Affordable housing
9 pocket parks or Hofjes in Dutch
Car parking under the raised street level
High density at 150 units/HA (60 units/AC)
Sniffen Court E36 street

Slide 11 notes: Thinnest double glass structural façade
World record at 53mm for 13m span
With Ulrich Knaack, Octatube, Delft University and InHolland Kevlar Lab

Slide 10: 360 degrees view, except the Standard Hotel

Cameras on the other side of the hotel

Projecting on the façade as the free view

A video online, you believe it, but in real life your brain can’t be tricked (yet)

Ulrich Knaack at Delft University got us a working prototype

Leather floor walls and ceiling by Ellermeijer in Amsterdam

Young graffity artists Telmo en Miel

Marcel Wanders one off Hockney carpet

Slide 9: Part of the First phase on Cruquius Island development in Amsterdam
Developer and Investor Amvest headquarters and Two housing blocks

Our first Nature inclusive project
Elevator as room
Bata Shoes Czechoslovakia 1936 CEO office lift
Open escape stairs
Tripple Scissor Stair
Passive climate facade
Last year Amvest was awarded the NEPROM award

Slide 8: The Joker smashed our favorite model unexpectedly
Not in the script

Nasa started 3D printing in 2010
Margeret’s dad was a Rocket Scientist
3D pinting since 2012
First industrial machine $150,000
Now better result for a few thousand dollars

Slide 7: Colaborate with Dutch firms

OZ Architects for the large projects

Allard Architecture for the medium projects

Artisan Architects for the smaller projects

Slide 6: Always walk to work
Rietveld Architects started in the Empire State Building
After 9-11 we moved to the Film Center building
During Covid we moved to the Piano Factory
Some Dutch will recognize the Little-C architecture

Slide 5: First project as Rietveld Architects
Ever since our projects are 50% NY and 50% NL
No foundation. The building is resting on top of the existing construction
Built on top of a recessed highway through the The Hague City Center
Connecting two neighborhoods separated by a sunken highway

Page 4: The Modernist

I joined Richard Meier as project architect for the Cityhall and Library in the Hague
The largest project RMP ever built. But not the most exensive
Richard did not understand the Dutch
They wanted the project on time and on budget
So, after six months Richard said: “you do it”
For 8.5 years I travelled up and down to NL
We finished the project on time and for the budget
This year 30 years old
This gave us the Dutch network that still exists
Until this day we are doing aftercare. Redesigned the Council Chamber and currenty the all new press room is under construction
All big changes I discuss with Richard Meier.

Slide 3: The Icon

Margaret worked for years on the Louvre project in Paris

I came over for the weekends

Seven day workweek. No computers

Started to help on Saturday, so we had sundays free

They discovered it and got me to make some nice drawings

Years later in New York werkte Margaret aan Steven Job’s apartment in the San Remo

In ‘95 IM Pei asked us to help with the design process for the extension of the Zeughaus in Berlin

The Mentor

Started in Amsterdam working for Herman Hertzberger in the70’s and 80’s

Aldo van Eyck, Jan Rietveld, Piet Blom

Towards the end, Margaret was there too

Hertzberger was our mentor

At 93 he is still our mentor. We see each other every year at least once. Either in Amsterdam or in New York

This is the second slide of our presentation at the FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York, endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history.

This is the first slide of our presentation at the FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York, endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history.

Back to sketches. All these are handsketches , but with a digital pen on a Wacom screen.