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Dutch Architecture: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Dutch architecture has long been shaped by dense cities, water management, and a strong tradition of public and collective building. Architects in the Netherlands often work with limited land, complex planning frameworks, and a close relationship between housing, infrastructure, and civic life. Practices such as Mecanoo have become known for projects that reinterpret public institutions and mixed-use developments.

On uni.xyz, members explore this tradition through projects set in Amsterdam, Leiden, and abroad, including renovations of university and central bank buildings, mass timber housing, and community hubs. The work also shows how Dutch approaches travel to other contexts, from winery villages in South Africa to mixed-use landmarks in Manchester.

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Tassos

A HOUSE FOR LIFE

This proposal is a house of sustainable living that aims to support a family for life with the feeling of a community within the family. In a city like Amsterdam, the lifestyle changes rapidly so we have to consider sustainability in the largest sense of the word, about maintaining something over a long period of time and minimizing waste and resources.

Delovan

ICH: International Community Hub in Amsterdam

ICH conforms to The Czaar Peterbuurt area, and its environment, and to the needs of the people of Amsterdam’s city center and eastern dockyard too. its form does not imply the conventional understanding of form follows function, but comes with a more enhanced understanding of form follows community and environment.

SEOHYUN and 2 others

we Stack up ! ! !

It is a center where small things come together to share culture and assist in adaptation.

Habiba

Urban Greenhouse

Using a greenhouse as a means of creating common resources

Matheus and 3 others

A COMMON GROUND FOR MASS TIMBER HOUSE

Thinking spaces with engineered wood. By using mass timber, a spatial solution for a housing style was thought of. The common ground is part of the project as a whole.

Suhyeon and 2 others

Overlapped Surface

The new road system proposed by 'Overlapped Surface' is combined with the existing road. We propose a space for international students and residents to gather in one place along the road.

Dorota

Overseas Oasis

Community center for international students in Amsterdam. The place for international students interaction with main open space in the centre and other functions around.

Mark

Pour Winery: A Study in Black and White

The buildings that form Pour Winery in Kayamandi near the town of Stellenbosch in the winegrowing region of South Africa deal with the history of race relations in the country rather than avoid it. The careful interplay of black and white elements of the winery architecture signify and acknowledge the complex race relationship of the country.

Carolyne

The Mending Garden

This prison imagines a future of reform leading to prison abolition. How do we handle people who have committed electronic crimes? Take them back to the earth.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 days ago

PARA Floats a Split-Open Canal House on Fifteen Pontoons for the 2021 Bruges Triennale

A temporary timber pavilion docked beside an abandoned 15th-century canal house in Bruges, unfolding the city's hidden layers without touching its ground.

Religious Building

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 days ago

KAAN Architecten Packs Social Housing and Offices into a Timber Matchbox at the Edge of Eindhoven's Strijp-S

In Eindhoven's former Philips district, a demountable post-and-beam timber block stacks 36 social rentals over offices around a shared garden.

Architecture

Landscape Design

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Plug & Play Amsterdam: A Steel Frame That Treats Rooms as Swappable Parts

Beside an Amsterdam canal, a red steel grid holds an orange auditorium, a glass dome and yellow catwalks, staging everyday life as a public show.

Cultural Architecture

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 weeks ago

Pour Winery: A Vineyard Village Where Cape Dutch and Ndebele Forms Confront South Africa's History

A runner-up at Pour 2020, Mark Donohue's winery near Stellenbosch scatters production and hospitality into a black-and-white village on a modular grid.

Architecture

Winery Architecture