2009-06-04 international edition of the ‘architecture game’
The architecture game, that was made by NEXT in 1999 is ready for a new release. We found that it would be a great project to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the game with an international edition. Up till now it was only available in Dutch. Right now are working on updating the questions. We are planning to release it at the end of the year.
2009-05-14 DELFZIJL | KICK OFF
With a kick-off workshop at the Delfzijl City Centre, NEXT started the design for the reconstruction of the centre of Holland’s most Northern City Delfzijl, including the Architectural Quality Plan. With the urban plan, the city has two intentions: first, to (re)connect the heart with the harbor, and second, to incorporate the effects of shrink in this region.
NEXT architects, together with Claudia Linders, closely cooperates with Karres & Brands landscape architects, responsible for the Masterplan Public Space.
2009-04-23 Ready Made | "Readymade bookshelf" in Milan
A prototype in progress since 2003, Readymade bookshelf is released in a limited edition in leather with gold detailing and on view during the Milan furniture fair. The bookshelf comes with a façade of all the 'need-to-have' books for status, even if you don’t intend to read them. The façade gradually gets replaced by the actual books you are reading, for when you are ready to display them.
Milan 2009, April 22nd – 25th
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2009-04-04 Density Studies | Intense Low-Rise in Groningen
The manifestation opened its doors last Friday with more than 50 plans for Groningen by national and international architects. With the assignment from Nijestee Development NEXT contributed to the 'Intense Low-Rise'. NEXT used the knowledge gathered while they joined the study Density and Spatial Quality, together with Rudy Uytenhaak and Jeroen Mensink at Delft University of Technology. This resulted in a plan with a density of a 100 dwellings per hectare. Every single dwelling has direct access to ground level. Quality is guaranteed by making use of spatial qualities in the direct suroundings.
The exhibition is free to visit in Groningen from April 6th till June 19th 2009
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2009-03-18 Impossible stair for Carnisselande
With the proposal In Weiter Ferne, so Nah NEXT architects won an invited competition for a folly in Carnisselande, Barendrecht. The proposal consists of a circular stair which leads the visitor up to a height that allows an unhindered view of the horizon. The path makes a continuous movement and thereby draws on the context of the heavy infrastructural surroundings of ring road and tram track. While a tram stop presents the end or the start of a journey, the route of the stairway is endless.
The continuity and endlessness have a double meaning, however. Because the stair is based on the principal of the Moebius ring, is has only one surface; upside becomes underside becomes upside. The suggestion of a continuous route is therefore, in the end, an impossibility: In weiter ferne, so nah.
Because of its structure the shape of the object is hard to perceive; every perspective generates a new image with which the design is not only a contextual but also a very literal answer to the given context of the local art plan: The Elastic Perspective.
2009-01-08 Chartbreaking: NEXT enters Architectenwerk Top 40 at the third place!
NEXT architects made its début in the ArchitectenWerk top 40 2008 with a third place! This objectively compiled ‘coverage chart’ provides a comparative indication of the amount of attention the different architect’s offices have received in the Dutch architectural magazines and journals during the year.
Earlier in October 2008, the Spanish magazine A+ selected NEXT for their yearly Young International Architects issue and the Polish magazine Murator indicated NEXT architects as one of the 14 European rising stars.
The Architectural Review's editor-in-chief Kieran Long selected NEXT for his publication Hatch: The New Architectural Generation, published by Laurence King and in the coming spring we expect the prestigious Phaidon book 10x10 III featuring a selection of our latest works!
2008-11-27 Wieden + Kennedy | LAI prize 2008 for NEXT architects!
Of the five projects nominated, the jury chose NEXT’s design because of the relatively simple devices employed to create eminently inhabitable interiors, and because the worlds of principality and culture were joined effectively. The jury:The interior is in no way an assembled showcase of objects, but a synthesized whole of spaces and zones, in which work places have been created that allow for, alternatively, introverted processes or group settings. This flexibility is supported further by the bespoke furnishings designed specifically for and used throughout the premises; despite this visual cohesion the furniture pieces do not dominate the visual impression. Perhaps the most significant achievement NEXT realized is the additional space that was won through the building, without the least sacrifice of functionality.
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2008-11-10 Villa Overgooi | broadcasting
On behalf of the award the Gouden Piramide 2008 a broadcasting showed Villa Overgooi with interviews, flythroughs and comments from the jury.
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2008-11-05 Recent and Upcoming NEXT events
NEXT has been selected for the publication ‘America/Europe: 44 Young architects', curated by the Spanish magazine Scalae. Other selected offices include BIG (Denmark), Nuno Brandão Costa (Portugal) and Supersudaca (Chile)
The Table Tennis Fence is selected for the exhibition ‘Actions: what you can do with the city’ at the Canadian Center for Architecture, 1920 Rue Baile, Montreal. November 26 2008 until April 19, 2009
The Share Fence is part of the Singletown exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. September 14, 2008 – November 23, 2008
The final design for the Textile Monument is presented at the Audax Textiel Museum in Tilburg. November 1 – November 20 2008. Audax Textielmuseum, Goirkestraat 96 Tilburg.
House M&M will be presented at the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong. December 8 – December 13 2008, Hong Kong Design Centre
Villa Overgooi has a double show at the Netherlands Architecture Institute at the exhibitions dedicated to the nominees of the AMNAI prize and the Gouden Piramide Award. NAI, November 8 – February 23, 2009 Museumpark 25, Rotterdam
Villa Overgooi will be presented at the television show KunstUur, broadcasted on November 8, 17:00 hrs, Ned. 2.
John van de Water will lecture on the work of NEXT architects China at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Sunday November 23, 15:00 hrs Museumpark 25, Rotterdam
2008-10-30 NEXT publications
Recently Wieden+Kennedy, Eck en Wiel and Villa Overgooi were published in de Architect and Bauwelt. The articles can be downloaded in our section NEXT on stage.
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2008-10-25 House M&M | Another NEXT nomination: Dutch Design Awards 2008
After nominations for the Gouden Piramide 2008, the AMNAI prize 2008 (both Villa Overgooi) and the Lensvelt De Architect Interior Award (Wieden+Kennedy) another NEXT nomination: House M&M is anounced as finalist in the category Private Interiors of the Dutch Design Awards 2008.
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2008-10-19 Construction Box Table | NEXT table at Kortrijk interior exhibition
The table designed for the office of Wieden+Kennedy is now on show in Kortrijk. In case you are interested, just contact us, it's for sale.
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2008-09-12 Wieden + Kennedy | NEXT nomination Lensvelt de Architect interior award
NEXT is nominated with the interior of Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam.
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2008-08-12 Villa Overgooi | NEXT nominated for the AM NAi Award 2008
NEXT is nominated for the AM NAi award 2008, the prize for best building of an architect under 40. Out of 76 entries 4 nominations were selected by the jury. Villa Overgooi is selected for its convincing design considering the program and complexity of a collective that consists of five private clients. The award will be announced on November 7th 2008 together with the presentation of the publication ‘Facts & Forms’ covering all nominations.
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2008-08-10 Interview on vk.tv with John van de Water
Before the Olympics started vk.tv made a series of documentaries on the building explosion in China and especially in Beijing. John van de Water showed them several of our building sites. For the interview you can visit
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2008-07-31 Y-bridge | New landmark for Amsterdam?
Quest Magazine why Amsterdam lacks an architectonic icon like the Eiffel tower. Amsterdam is no city of ‘useless’ icons is the answer of NEXT architects.
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2008-07-30 Bridge Collenstaartweg | deck installed
The deck with a span of 30mtr of the bridge over the Regge is installed yesterday. The process is still on schedule. Within a few weeks the bridge will already be opened for traffic. Full steam ahead.
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2008-06-27 Huis te Wiel | Festive opening
On Friday June 27, guided by the local orchestra, Mayor Tammes of the municipality Buren has officially inaugurated the estate Huis te Wiel, nearly four years after starting the design. NEXT architects, together with Claudia Linders, has been responsible for the masterplan, one of the houses and the annexes.
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2008-05-21 Rondje Delfzijl | proposals online
Wednesday May 21, NEXT has presented their collaborative work with Claudia Linders for the public space in Delfzijl to an enthusiastic crowd of local inhabitants. The other participants also received honorable mention. The people’s choice will influence the final decision.
2008-05-19 Density Studies | 1st prize Architectural Biennale Moscow.
The prize for ‘best exhibition of the International pavilion’ was given to NEXT architects and the TU Delft for their combined research and practice on housing density. Together they showed the research called ’Block Library’ that was set up by NEXT architects at the university and executed by graduate students. It systematically researches the relation between building size and building quality, extracting some strategies on high quality housing blocks for dense areas. Two projects of NEXT were shown to illustrate the theory.
The Moscow biennale continues until June 22.
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2008-05-10 IBM office and research center | Sneak preview
Sneak preview of one of IBM’s three courtyards. The construction is running at full speed and delivery is scheduled end of June.
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2008-04-17 Villa Overgooi | golden nomination
Our clients from the project Villa Overgooi have been nominated for the prestigious Gouden Piramide 2008, which is the award for outstanding clients in the Netherlands. Other nominees include VIA Project Development, Unilever, the Netherlands Institute For Sound And Vision , and the Amsterdam Muncipal Archives.
The winner wil be announced on national television in November.
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2008-03-25 No fooling about
Under this title, the architecture magazine MARK publishes a 14 pages long article on NEXT architects in their april/may issue.
The article focusses on the steady growth of our firm, work in China and the work for 'droog design'.
2008-02-23 Exhibiton | NEXT at Het Huis, de Kamers
Curator Marten Hendriks invited NEXT architects for the exhibition Het Huis, de Kamers at artcenter K13 in Velp, among artists and designers as Ineke Hans, Joris Laarman, Mark Manders and Suze May Sho.
Present at the exhibition are Slow Glow by NEXT architects with Aura Luz Melis and Spacer Chair and the Woven Waffle Screen, both with Samira Boon.
Het Huis, de Kamers opens at february 23, 16 hrs. Kunsthuis K13 Kastanjelaan 13 688HZ Velp
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2008-01-12 Textile Monument | Restart
In close collaboration with the landscape architects of Inside Outside the Textile Monument has been re-positioned and now will become the anchor point in the new museum garden of the Textile Museum in Tilburg. Construction is scheduled to be finished in mid 2009, the year the city celebrates its bicentennial.
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2007-12-01 Huis te Wiel | Huis te Wiel in De Gelderlander
Provincial newspaper De Gelderlander published an extensive article on the estate Huis te Wiel. After completion of the construction works, the reconstruction of the landscape started. The official opening of Huis te Wiel is planned for may 2008.
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2007-11-27 Hestia Daycare | PUBLICATION | DOUBLE SCORE IN DE ARCHITECT
The November issue of leading architectural magazine De Architect features two of our recent projects: The Spacer Chair, a collaboration with Studio Boon and Hestia Daycare, a collaboration with Claudia Linders.
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2007-11-14 Incoming project | competition for 12 bridges in Eindhoven
NEXT architects has been selected for an invited competition for 12 bridges in the Meerland park in Eindhoven. NEXT has to compete with Zwarts & Jansma, VHP, DAF and IPV Delft. Check our website at the end of January for the results of the competition.
2007-11-10 IBM office and research center | Construction at full speed
The specific composition of different scaled ellipses becomes visible in the rapid progress of the construction works. The picture shows a view of one of the inner courts with the office-bar crossing the main ellipse.
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2007-10-22 Presentation of the study Mixing in the City
At october 22 the research publication WoonWerk will be presented to the Minister of Housing. NEXT architects participated in this research project by Habiforum with a study into very deep buildings which, by their depth, generate a great diversity in program.
Read our study at NEXT on stage > articles by NEXT architects
2007-10-10 Wieden + Kennedy | Red entrance floor
The red floor of the Wieden + Kennedy building is one of the first finishing layers, which means the end is coming into sight. This space will be the entrance of the building but can be turned into a theater too.
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2007-10-01 Waterstone Sales Center | Selling center of Xidan shopping nears completion
The glass facades of the selling center are put into place and makes the slightly disturbed shape of the building visible.
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2007-10-01 Huis te Wiel | Huis te Wiel nears completion
The construction work on the estate Huis te Wiel is almost ready. After finishing the houses, the contractor will start with the realization of the landscaping and the communal court.
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2007-09-14 Drytech 3 | Spacer Chair | DRYTECH NEW PRODUCTS AND EXHIBITION
Within the context of Dry tech, the experimental lab of Droog Design, NEXT architects developed in collaboration with Samira Boon two new products. The aim of the Droog lab is to make innovative products out of new materials, mainly textiles and composites. As outcome we show the ‘Spacer Chair’, made out of sandwich braided material and the ‘Woven Waffle Screen’ for which we also developed the textile at the Textile Museum in Tilburg (NL). Both products are developed in cooperation with product / textile designer Samira Boon.
more info: www.droogdesign.nl www.samiraboon.nl
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2007-08-07 IBM office and research center | Construction started
The enormous building pit for the IBM office is ready to be build. The building has to be ready before the olympic games.
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2007-05-16 Wieden + Kennedy | Reconstruction started
Starting from today the Herengracht 258 will be transformed in the next couple of months. in december Wieden + Kennedy has to move in leaving their office at the Keizersgracht.
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