On Friday April 20th the prize for the best project in the exhibition 'Smart Cities - Parallel Cases 2' was awarded at the NAI. An international jury selected two winners: Sendai Oasis - 1000 Rain Gardens and Hollandstad Inverted Metropolis. Both projects are part of the exhibition Smart Cities - Parallel Cases 2, an initiative of the six Dutch Academies of Architecture in the context of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), on ndisplay at the NAI. > Read more...
The five plans which have been nominated by the jury of the Ymere NAI idea competition 2009, are announced in New York. This year’s competition, ‘Open Fort 400’ , which is jointly organised by the Ymere Housing Corporation and the NAI in close collaboration with the Amsterdam Local Authority, asked designers to think about an open fort as the impulse for the further social, cultural and economic development of the area from the end of the Grasweg to the River IJ in North Amsterdam. > Read more...
On September 13th Job Cohen, the Mayor of Amsterdam, will be in New York to present the five nominees of the Ymere NAI idea competition 2009 'Open Fort 400'. For the competition 101 entries from 28 countries have been submitted, of which only five nominees will go on to the closed second round of the competition.
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‘A Word on Icons: a conversation between Rem Koolhaas and Catherine David’ can now be viewed online on www.almanakh.org. > Read more...
Coolpower - competition entries for a new Rotterdam City Hall in the Coolsingel from 1912, offers a historical view of the 1912 competition for designs for the City Hall. The new designs of the current architects in the competition will be exhibited in Coolpower – 5 designs for the new Rotterdam Municipal Office. > Read more...
What is an Open City? How does a society take shape? How can architects and urban designers contribute to the development of socially sustainable cities? These are a few of the questions that will face visitors to Open City: Designing Coexistence, in the Netherlands Architecture Institute from 24 September 2009 to 10 January 2010. > Read more...
On March 14 Education Minister Ronald Plasterk announced the winners of the Building for Bouwkunde International Ideas Competition. The proposals of the eight nominees, together with the recommendations of a specially convened think tank, form the basis for concrete plans for the future. All competition entries are on display from March 15 in the ‘Building for Bouwkunde’ exhibition at NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) in Rotterdam. > Read more...
February 2009 | A first, very basic version of the new Collection Information System (CIS) can now be consulted online. The development of the CIS is an ambitious long-term project designed to make the entire NAI collection accessible. While this first version of the CIS does not yet use all the system’s options, it will enable you to search a large part of the collection from your own computer. The inventories of the archives are available as full text in the CIS. > Read more...
July 2009 | In a three day conference in June 2009, the NAi aimed to map the development of research and experiences in creating, consuming and using digital architectural archives. > Read more...
The Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Mr Ronald Plasterk, presented the State Prize for an inspiring principal in the NAI to the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum. > Read more...
The Netherlands Architecture Institute can enter the policy period 2009-2012 at full strength: as of 1 January 2009 the NAI will have a new deputy director in the person of Peter Haasbroek (Rotterdam, 1964). Peter Haasbroek currently works for the major Dutch public consumer organisation Consumentenbond. > Read more...
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