by Harrie van Helmond, Jannie Landa, Tom van Duuren, | | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
Largely unnoticed by the experts, a special feature in the field of housing stands in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, a city of about 250,000 inhabitants: a Dutch ‘Bosco vertical’ – but not for rich residents, like the world-famous building in Milan, but...
by Harrie Van Helmond | | Architecture & Urban development, Archive, Authors, Categorieën, Galerie, Gallery, Neues, News, Technology & Innovation
Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) – an obit On March 26, 2020, architect and publicist Michael Sorkin died after he was infected with the coronavirus. Sorkin was a strong advocate of “green urbanism”. He proposed building blocks with vertical farms and...
by Harrie Van Helmond | | Categorieën
Een verkenning van de Trudo bostoren door Harrie van Helmond, architect en aangesloten bij Biotope-City, Jannie Landa, actief stadsvergroener en aangesloten bij IVN Eindhoven en Tom van Duuren, bosbeheerder en aangesloten bij Wilde Weelde, vakgroep voor natuurrijke...
by Harrie Van Helmond | | Uncategorized
In the summer issue 2010 of the magazine AWM (Architecten Web Magazine), you can read an interview with the founder of the Chinese agency MAD, Ma Yansong. The vision of his office is that nature must be integrated into architecture, as in the Chinese architecture in...
by Harrie Van Helmond | | Uncategorized
The name “flower tower” is somewhat misleading because bamboo has no flowers. The many reasons behind the name of this particular residential building are the 380 pots in which bamboo was planted. The building, social housing, set in the suburbs of Paris...
