Glass Innovation Prize 2

Back into the archives for a Sketch-a-Day series one decade ago: concept sketches of the thinnest double glass facade spanning four floors in the world. Awarded with the Glass Innovation Award. With Ulrich Knaack, Mick Eekhout and Lein Labruyere

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Kagan Executive Desk

Portrait at the Kagan workshop with Crescent Desk and Jil Sander bag-did you know Vladamir was married to Erica Wilson the Julia Childs of embroidery?

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Thinnest glass facade in the world

Back into the archives for a Sketch-a-Day series one decade ago: concept sketches of the thinnest double glass facade spanning four floors in the world. Awarded with the Glass Innovation Award. With Ulrich Knaack, Mick Eekhout and Lein Labruyere

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My favorite car the 1959 Ghia Fiat Jolly 600 on Washington Street with rattan chairs but no fringe canopy; 0-60, no...

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Glass Innovation Prize

10 years ago the InHolland University building in Delft was the recipient of the Glass Innovation Prize for the worlds thinnest double glass facade spanning four stories. A record it still holds. The structure is a carbon fiber tube and Aramide cable structure, where the structure is between the two sheets of the double glass. This was a fun innovation project with Ulrich Knaack and Mick Eekhout, and not to forget InHolland who, as the client let us do this....

DVP

Back into the archives for a Sketch-a-Day series. Innovative workplace concept from 10 years ago...

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Greenhouse

"'Now there' said he, pointing his finger, 'I make a comma, and there' pointing to another spot, 'where a more decided turn is proper, I make a colon; at another part, where an interruption is desirable to break the view, a parenthesis; now a full stop, and then I begin another subject'". Capability Brown

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Highrise discussion

Traditional core versus decentralized core and concrete versus steel structure was an interesting discussion between increased cost versus increased revenue....

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A Fresh Take on Mullions at the Amvest HQ

The mullions on the facade of the Amvest headquarters in the new Cruquius development in Amsterdam are made of solid steel, not aluminum as is standard practice. Why? Because the floor of the second level is suspended from the facade! Not an easy feat. Harm Hoorn, the chief structural engineer at Zonneveld, must have had a few sleepless nights. But with his help, it's an elegant engineering solution for an open plan design. #Amvest #Cruquius #ZonneveldIngenieurs 

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Kudos from de Brug’s Van Erven Dorens for our new Cruquius buildings

Van Erven Dorens says the building expresses our distinctive design approach: “I now read this slogan of Rietveld Architects: RETHINKING MODERN LIFE: FROM THE ESSENTIAL TO THE EXUBERANT. The essential is referring to Rietveld’s history as a classic modernist/humanist while working for Hertzberger. The exuberant is referring to the postmodern style of the international jet set. The architect is interacting with both worlds. This is visible if you look at the design of the headquarters of Amvest. The shape of the building is formed by functional principles: the idea to let the building literally reach into the harbor to express the symbolic meaning of a harbor building. At the same time, the quay below the building should not be blocked. The floating part of the building is double-height and serves as a working space, lobby and living room. One big lounge, with an exuberant and stylish interior that is surprising to see in an office building.”

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