Thialf ice arena, Heerenveen
Most sustainable ice skating stadium in the world
For the Dutch, skating is not just a sport; it is an event that opens their hearts. Skating competitions in ice arenas are emotional events…
Venue Building Silt, Middelkerke
Striking building at the Belgian coast
Both inspiring and principled, venue building Silt Middelkerke is an asset to the Belgian coast in several respects. With great love of the…
Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam, Amsterdam
New life for a monument
Historically an exchange is the meeting place of markets and people, goods and ideas, and that is how the renewed Diamond Exchange meets…
Stadium AZ, Alkmaar
A Theatre for Football
Along the motorway A9, just south of Alkmaar, lies the stadium of AZ football club. The original stadium was realized in 2007, based on a…
Renovation Three Climate Greenhouse Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
The eye-catcher of the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus was designed in the early 1990s by architectural studio ZJA, as a contemporary structure…
Sports and culture complex
Linter
Halfway between Brussels and Maastricht lies the rural municipality of Linter. Where once there were fields, at the intersection of the…
Sports Hall De Koekoek, Hamont-Achel
The new sports hall De Koekoek in Hamont-Achel is optimally fitted into the green residential surroundings and characterized by the use of…
Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam
A playground for Rotterdam
Generations of aficionados of boxing, cycling, tennis, figure skating and basketball cherish their memories that have Rotterdam Ahoy as…
Timeless Box, Skybox Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam
Have you ever noticed the waves that hide inside brown cardboard boxes which move silently and unobtrusively through the world? They are in…
Sports centre Sportoase Groot Schijn, Deurne
Ice and water sustainably united
In Deurne, on the eastern rim of the city of Antwerp, right in the middle of Groot Schijn Park, lies a special sports building. One can…
Freedom Museum, Groesbeek
Parachute in the landscape
A new building for the Freedom Museum Although the west of the Netherlands had to endure a gruesome winter of famine, the Battle of Arnhem…
Shaded Dome
The Shaded Dome concept
When approaching a Shaded Dome one might wonder: is this a tent or a building? Entering and studying it clarifies that the most correct…
Dutch Pavilion, Seville
When in 1990 Moshé Zwarts and Rein Jansma learned they had won the competition to do the design for the Dutch Pavilion at the 1992 World…
Renovated Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam
For many years, there has been a debate about the future of the old Feyenoord stadium (a.k.a. De Kuip/The Tub) in Rotterdam. After it was…