Complexity
Kop van Isselt
Kop van Isselt in Amersfoort is located on a strategic location close to the city center and in near proximity of highway…
Randstad Sleutelprojecten
Randstad Sleutelprojecten is an extensive exploration of the so called Randstad Key Projects.
Randstad 2040
Randstad 2040, a design based exploration of the unique urban area, the Randstad commissioned by VROM (the Dutch ministry…
La Défense
The client, EPAD [Établissement public pour l’Aménagement du quartier d’Affaires de La Défense], launched 4 urban…
Cinema City
The development of Cinema City, on the site of the old Georgian film studios, will start with the opening of Concern’s…
Viktoriakwartier
The newest extension to Eindhoven’s center uses the existing cultural program and buildings on the site to create…
Tolbiac Chevaleret
The 200.000 m2 project investigates capping the railway tracks of Austerlitz along the Avenue de France, to reach the…
Les Halles
In the design One made with O.M.A., XDGA and Ter for Les Halles, it is proposed to bring the dynamicism and the youth…
Deltametropool
Four years ago, Bouw and van Dansik visited Siemens to discuss their ‘Airport in the Sea study’ and the potential…
Six Under a Tenniscourt
Six under a Tennis Court investigates the possibilities of an urban planning that is not surpressed by geometry.
In spite of its current reputation – one element is completely lacking in Dutch architecture: complexity.
Inspired by centuries of rationalism and practicality, there is no madness in our architecture. Dutch architecture is like a magnetic field – all efforts point in the same direction – there is no contradiction.
That is why I have liked the work of One Architecture of the beginning. Initially driven by the encounter of the erudite perversity of Joost Meeuwissen and the innocent megalomania of Matthijs Bouw, and now led by Bouw, their impressive oeuvre in the meantime is a bewildering journey past from brilliant to almost ‘stupid’ projects, sudden insights, unexpected combinations, accidental sophistication.
Rem Koolhaas
Spring 2006