When an old blacksmith retired he sold the house his grandfather rebuild to a young couple. They transformed his workshop with blackened oaken beams dating back to 1650 and massively thick walls into a modern living area. By lowering the floor of the living room and raising its roof this area become very spacious and is visually separated from the kitchen and dining area. It also creates room for an enormous glass front which, together with (walkable) roof lights, flood the ground floor with daylight. A wood clad canopy has an obliq angle which enables it to naturally controls the direct sunlight and to protect one entering from the rain. Slim steel doors separate the playroom at the front where a wood clad wall incorporates doors to entrance, restroom and stairs to the second floor.
Kolenik’s design for commanding 1000m2 Rotterdam penthouse takes exclusivity to a whole new level.
Interior designer Robert Kolenik was given the dream job of creating a design proposal for the Netherlands’ most exclusive penthouse. ‘The Box’ forms the extravagant focal point of the glittering waterfront Bay House complex, designed by Joke Vos Architecten, and set at the heart of the city’s vibrant Rijnhaven district. Developer Frame Vastgoed commissioned Kolenik to conjure up an exclusive, cosmopolitan feel for the 1000m2 penthouse to show buyers what was possible for this impressive space.
‘The Box’ is an ultra high-end apartment with an imposing storey height of up to 12 metres, two private lifts, several private parking spaces, and generous floor-to-ceiling windows offering spectacular views. Best of all, the interior architecture can still be adjusted according to the buyer’s wishes.
Bakkum is a small village close to the coast just north of Amsterdam. At the edge of a large natural reserve and in between the trees Villa Bakkum was built. Villa Bakkum a minimalistic house with 3 wings that emerge in the surrounding nature.
In The Hague’s Vogelwijk district in The Netherlands, a minimalist house extension contrasts sharply with the expressive brick architecture of a 1927’s house, exposing the ‘hidden’ qualities.
De Lakfabriek, a former lacquer factory in Oisterwijk (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands) has been transformed into 25 living units, conform a design of Wenink Holtkamp Architecten. Accompanied by the architects’ office, the residents themselves made their home layout, which resulted in a large variety of housing types in the former factory building.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid both have unique collections of oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-Antwerp 1640). For years they have shared a wish to bring together the finest works from their collections and complement them with masterpieces from other museums to create an unprecedented overview. Pure Rubens, running in the museum’s large Bodon Wing (1500 m2) in the busiest period of the year, is aimed at a broad public.
Rubens was the master of the oil sketch. He was the first artist to prepare a great many of his important compositions by painting sketches on panel. Whereas Rubens’s large works are sometimes described as hackwork, in part because of the contributions often made by assistants, the brilliant, virtuoso – almost impressionistic – touch of the master himself is always present in his oil sketches. Four centuries later, these works have lost none of their impact.
The Asian Art housed in the Rijksmuseum forms an autonomous collection with splendid pieces, works of art that neither can easily be located within the chronological tour of the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum, nor do they relate well to the architecture of the nineteenth century building. The goal was to design a separate building for the collection, the Asian Pavilion.
Photography: Duccio Malagamba, Arie de Leeuw, Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, Eran Oppenheimer, Erik Smits, Iwan Baan, Jannes Linders, Jose Manuel Ballester, Luuk Kramer, Pedro Pegenaute
That is certainly the case with this project; the modest house has become a small power plant.
Besides the energy needed to heat the house and to provide it of the necessary power, enough energy remains to recharge an electric car and also to illuminate the houses of some neighbors.
i29 interior architects designed the new lobby, meeting area and restaurant for BKR, the Dutch national credit registration center. Dutch citizens visit the center to see their record in relation to mortgages, loans and debts. Our aim was to create an new interior identity that radiates professionalism, accuracy and transparency.
In our current day and age, we all are searching for a unique place; a place where there is always something going on, where people can enjoy the good things in life, and where everyone is invited to have and share experiences. This place is not home or the workplace, but a kind of special ‘third place’ located somewhere between public and domestic, where everyone is welcome.
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