Hoofdkantoor Nederlandse Middenstands Bank, year:1978-1987, place:Amsterdam, architects: T. Alberts en M. van Huut

The exhibition ‘Disputed City’ is over. After a successful period with many enthusiastic visitors, the main gallery of the NAI is now empty. All the visitors to the website or the main gallery in the last few months have been able to vote for the buildings that they would like to see back on display soon in the permanent exhibition ‘City of Holland’.

Of the forty controversial models that took part in the competition, the following ten are the winners:

• Prijsvraagontwerp Raadhuis Rotterdam
• Prijsvraag Stadhuis Amsterdam
• Kantoorgebouw De Holland van 1859
• Overblaak Kubuswoningen
• Kasteel Leliënhuyze, Haverlij
• Herhaalde wooneenheden Forum
• Stedenbouwkundig Ontwerp Leidsche Rijn
• Tapijtmetropool
• World bottles

The absolute winner was the Hoofdkantoor Nederlandse Middenstands Bank, which drew the highest number of votes from the public both on the website and at the physical exhibition.

The thirty models that failed to win go back to the depot. The ten winners are ready to be put on display after the reopening of the renovated NAI in December in the new permanent exhibition ‘City of Holland’.

Disputed City

Disputed City

Forty instances of architecture and the struggle for the city. About contentious forms and styles. About citizens who were ignored. About architects who were treated with contempt.
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Press Release (4 February 2010) Disputed City

Disputed City is about forty designs that prompted an outcry. About citizens who go ignored. Architects treated with contempt. Bull-headed project developers and conceited lord mayors. But the public get to have the last word. Now in the NAI: the forty most hotly disputed architectural designs from the largest architecture collection in the world.
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Award ceremony for the best designs for the new Faculty of Architecture building

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.
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Disputed City

Exhibition 19 february 2010  - 16 may 2010 |
Disputed City is an exhibition about the outcry architecture can cause. About citizens who go ignored. Architects treated with contempt. Bull-headed project developers and conceited lord mayors. But the public get to have the last word. Starting in February in the NAi: the forty most hotly debated designs from the largest architecture collection in the world.
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Gallery 2: Living in the Lowlands

Exhibition 17 november 2004  - 26 april 2009 | The NAI has one of the world's most important collections of archives of architecture, interiors, landscape architecture and urban planning. The permanent exhibition Living in the Lowlands (2004-2009) revealed the collection's wealth of drawings, models and photographs.
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