Das Gebäude am südlichen Stadtrand von Amsterdam gelegen, IJsbaanpad 3B Bereich, Holland Anfang des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurde von H. P. Vorschlag der Süd-Plan beeinflusst Berlage für die Erweiterung der Stadt. Er war unter der Autobahn A10 und das Stadion der Olympischen Spiele 1928 auf dem flachen Land ohne benachbarte Gebäude.

The central area of the project is covered with a hundred pyramidal domes of square base, 3.36m of side, prefabricated in concrete and some of them with a central skylight. The domes are supported by a grid of equal dimensions created by round pillars and concrete T-shaped jigs made in situ.

Spaces

But in the initial caricature these planes were intended not literally, but as a simple metaphor. In their place could be substituted any other element used to define limits and offer opportunities for use. Wide cills, contoured benches, flowing staircases, sculptured handrails and many other elements may all be necessary for a really useful and comfortable building. This first project, although enthusiastically received in Noordwijk, did not get the approval of the executive board in Paris, largely because in making the program for ESTEC had underestimated the space needs of the facility constantly expanding. As a result, the program for the restaurant, library and conference center nearly doubled by adding a number of new office spaces, forcing the relocation of new additions to the large developing area southwest of existing buildings near From the main entrance to the complex down the road. In each of the four main circulation spaces, the restaurant, winter garden, library and conference rooms, a star-shaped ceiling rises above the lower roof, each ascending towards a pyramidal shape peak Different and variable configuration of large skylights. The inside of the dynamic folding roof creates the most important element of different spaces, wood entrechapado smooth surfaces combined with other grooved, which impart a warm color to all rooms. In 2014 it was declared a National Monument, but the masterpiece of Dutch structuralism has become obsolete and abandoned.

Im Jahr 2014 wurde es ein nationales Denkmal, aber das Meisterwerk des niederländischen Strukturalismus dort ungebräuchlich und verlassen gefallen erklärt.

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This is the heroic, or tragic, dimension of modern architecture; it refuses to coddle, to give directions and it forces Man to stand on his own, to be his own free agent’ From the end of the sixties he went on to apply his approach in the context of historical towns, first in his competition design for the Deventer town hall (1966, another prize-winning but unexecuted project), and then in the renovation projects for the Amsterdam Nieuwmarkt and Jordaan quarters (1970), and for the inner cities of Zwolle (1971–75) and Dordrecht (1975–81) – all of them urban housing projects which he developed and executed in association with Theo Bosch (1971–83). His most striking building of that period was the Hubertus House in Amsterdam, a home for single parents and their children (1978–81) which achieved a remarkable integration of a colourful functionalist language within an eclectic context. This pro-risk view is shared by landscape architect Jennette Emery-Wallis, designer of the award-winning Diana Memorial Playground in Kensington Gardens and the equally acclaimed Tumbling Bay in Olympic Park, designed with Erect Architecture. The former is a piratical Peter Pan fantasy, featuring a great galleon marooned in a sandy sea, with rigging to climb, a crow’s nest to look out from, and a hold to explore, surrounded by a magical landscape dotted with teepees, Wendy houses and dammable water channels. The building is situated near the dunes of the coastal town of Noordwijk-aan-Zee and tulip fields, at Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, near Leiden, Holland and gently spreads up and down the surroundings.