Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam, Amsterdam
New life for a monument
The former Diamond Exchange has been carefully restored and transformed into Capital C. Its historic qualities have been reinstated, while…
Renovation Climate House Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
The eye-catcher of the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus was designed in the early 1990s by ZJA Architects & Engineers, as a contemporary…
Freedom Museum, Groesbeek
Parachute in the landscape
Amid the green hills rises the impressive white dome of the new Freedom Museum in Groesbeek. The museum is shaped like a giant parachute…
Shaded Dome
Lightweight, flexible and demountable
The Shaded Dome is an innovative building concept developed by ZJA, Poly-Ned and Royal HaskoningDHV, in which a steel cable network, an air
Dutch Pavilion, Seville
Light, flexible and demountable
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…
AMFORA Amstel, Amsterdam
A visionary plan
The old Amsterdam, built in a swampy delta next to an arm of the sea, is a city in the water. Using modern building techniques, its huge…
Docking the Amsterdam
Sunken VOC ship recovered in building
In 1749 the Dutch VOC ship Amsterdam sank at Hastings, England. Almost three centuries later, the plan is conceived to salvage the wreck…
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
A façade like an etching plate
ZJA Architects & Engineers designed a new façade and rooftop extension for Museum Het Rembrandthuis, with a façade of folded copper panels…
Stedelijk Museum CS
Temporary museum in the former TPG building
The architects ZJA are responsible for renovating the second and third storeys of the former TPG building into Stedelijk Museum CS. The aim…
AMFORA, Amsterdam
A visionary plan
ZJA Architects & Engineers developed AMFORA together with Strukton, a visionary plan for creating new urban space beneath Amsterdam’s…
Dutch Pavilion world expo, Osaka
Not a building but a place In the summer of 2025 the World Expo will take place on an artificial island off the coast of the Japanese city…
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
The 'Joods Historisch Museum' (Jewish historical museum) invited the architects ZJA to participate in a design competion. The theme of the…
Three-climate greenhouse Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam
Three climates under one roof
ZJA designed a three-climate greenhouse for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, with a lightweight, transparent steel-and-glass structure…