In 9 days Trouw, the new club and restaurant on the Wibautstraat in Amsterdam, will open its doors for the public. Downstairs, its cultural add-on De Verdieping is still under construction, and should be fully functioning in the second part of March, when we will host the nachtsalon afterparty to get things out of ‘beta’. [...]
Today we visited Trouw and de Verdieping to talk with the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam about a possible collaboration. We are pretty excited about the prospect of aggregating organisations to create new projects at de Verdieping. One would be the role of architecture in hip hop aesthetics, an idea pondered by Michiel and subscribed [...]
The colour and material texture of the charred hulk of the fire-damaged Mandarin Oriental hotel building in Beijing bears a striking resememblance to the traditonal siheyuan, or traditional courtyard residences in China. Ironically, these ancient structures are disappearing rappidly in contemporary Beijing and they are replaced by wide boulevards and high rises, just like the [...]
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