Location #1 dropped out. Further research on #2. My least favorite. Early sketches of Amvest's headquarters on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam.

Location research #3. On top of the Harbour club. My least favorite. Early sketches of Amvest's headquarters on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam.

Location research #4. Old end new building blocks under a single roof. My second favorite. Early sketches of Amvest's headquarters on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam.

Location research #1. Woven into the interstitial space between the housing blocks. Early sketches of Amvest's headquarters on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam.

Location research #3. As a part of the Harbour Club. Early sketches of Amvest's headquarters on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam.

January 2026: Our buildings in the snow on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam

Last slide from the Future 400 talk

From the future to the futuristic: Crocodile Palace for a Dutch Zoo.

One offs, often cutting edge in design and production methods. Our research, development and fun department.

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