June 2009 | Changes in acquisitions policy make it less likely for complete architects’ archives to be included in the NAI’s collection. Carel Weeber’s archive, however, belongs to the category of exceptional cases. Even if selection criteria are narrowed down, it goes without saying that an archive as important as this one will be acquired in its entirety. On 2 June, in the presence of Carel Weeber, the transfer of the archive was “celebrated” with the introduction of the NAI’s new acquisitions policy. > Read more...

In 1915, De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch National Bank) held a closed competition for its new head office in Amsterdam, a city developing rapidly in a period of great economic growth. > Read more...

Recently, the NAI acquired a major addition to the archive of architect J. Bakema: a model of his design for the "Euromast" observation tower, from 1957. > Read more...

25 years ago this autumn a memorable architectural idea competition was held for youth accommodations on the Kruisplein square in Rotterdam. It marked a turning point in Dutch social housing and it was the stimulus for the creation of a new architectural partnership by the winning entrants: Mecanoo. To celebrate this jubilee, Francine Houben has donated the model of the housing project to the NAI. > Read more...

A model dating from 1919-1923 of a housing block that still exists in the famous Amsterdam Zuid expansion district planned by H.P. Berlage has recently been added to the NAI collection. > Read more...

Wageningen University recently donated a wooden box full of small kitchen components to the NAI. It is a scale model of a kitchen by the firm Bruynzeel, probably made in 1962. > Read more...

A lot of work often has to be done before models can go on exhibition. Take an inside look at the restoration of the model of the cube houses, designed by Piet Blom in 1978. > Read more...

The NAI collection boasts a huge wooden presentation model of architect Wilhelm Holzbauer's design for a town hall in Amsterdam. It took six month to restore the model. > Read more...

One splendid object in the collection at Netherlands Architecture Institute is a plaster model of the offices of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij ('Dutch Trading Company'), built between 1916 and 1926. > Read more...

A replica model of a prefab house designed by Johan Niegeman for Magnitogorsk industrial city in Siberia, is one of the most remarkable items from the NAi model collection. > Read more...

Its typology, function and design made The Industry Building (Maaskant, Van Tijen and Groosman) a powerful symbol of post-war reconstruction in Rotterdam. > Read more...

The NAI collection recently acquired the model and eight drawings of the first, unrealised design for the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague by H.P. Berlage (1919-1920).The enormous plaster model (2.81 x 2.81 metres) is recently restored. > Read more...