architectural travel 25 years #2 / 2013-2024

architectural travel 25 years #2 / 2013-2024

Architectural travel
The small group of colleagues who travelled to a monastery in Tuscany (Italy) on Ascension Day 2004 were used to visiting interesting cities in our own country together and talking about them extensively with each other. The origin of this lay in winning the Haskoning Dubo Award 1998 for the sustainable new construction of a Rabobank, by the current core team, Hans Jan Dürr (architecture & engineering), Ton Gijsbers (construction technology) and Loe Ortmans (installation technology). The other team members dropped out over time. The prize money was spent on a Saturday excursion to The Hague and Rotterdam (July 1999), where we visited the latest architectural projects and critically examined them for Sustainable Construction and Installation.

Since there was still money left, we were also able to go to Maastricht for a day and the development of the Ceramique area was thoroughly examined (September 1999).A few Dubo veterans decided to continue organizing the annual trips and so Groningen (2001) and the eastern islands of Amsterdam (2002) were visited. In 2003, the German border was crossed and the reuse of Zeche Zollverein in Essen, the most modern mine in Europe in the interbellum of the 20th century, was studied. The involvement of Jan van Swam (engineering) , who had joined us on the last excursion, at the Augustinian monastery in San Gimignano in Tuscany (I) aroused the group’s interest in spreading its wings even further in Europe.

In this video we travel to
2013 Brno, Prague CZ – Villa Tugendhat, Loos villa, Ginger & Fred
/ Utrecht NL – Schröder house, university ares, Arets, Hertzberger, Egeraat, OMA
2014 Strasburg (Hadid, Aubette, European parliament), Ronchamp (chapel le Corbusier & convent Renzo Piano), Dijon, France
/ Vierdaagse Nijmegen NL
2015 Paris (Vuitton Gehri, Armée du Salut, Pavillon Suiss & maison Brazil, opera Nouvel, Parc de la Villette) Evry (church Botta) Le Cyclop Tinguely, France
/ Delft (Railway Station Mecanoo), Rotterdam (Central Station West 8 + Benthem Crouwel Architects + MVSA Architects, Market Hall MVRDV, office OMA) NL
2016 Londen – Tate Modern, City hall, Barbican Estate, British museum, the Shard, the Gurkan, Lloyds, Heron tower, Leadenhall market, the Cheesegrater, Rothschild bank, No. 1 Poultry, Hayward Gallery, National Theatre, Kings Cross Station, UK
/ Nijmegen (university, space for the river Waal), Arnhem (railway station, library) NL
2017 Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie, Hafencity, Chilehaus, Airbus factory), Lübeck, Bremen (Überseestadt) Germany
/ Heerlen – Schunck building, Maan area, AZL office (Arets) Villa van Slobbe (Rietveld) St. Gelach pavilion (Mecanoo) NL
2018 Normandy – Amiens (cathedral, chamber of commerce, crematorium), Rouen (cathedral, Jeanne d’Arc place), Le Havre (Volcan by Niemeyer, chuch St. Joseph by Perret), Etretat, D-Day beaches (Sword, Juno, Gold, battery Longine-sur-Mer), museum Louvre Lens, villa Cavrois Croix, Antwerp (harbour house by Hadid) France
/ Marl & Münster, Marl (city hall by v.d. Broek & Bakema), Münster (Dom, Diozesan library, city library, LWL museum), Germany.
2019 Frankfurt, Germany – Commerzbank, Main tower, Paulskirche, Museumsufer met museum by Meijer, MAK, Städel Museum, Westhafen, Kaiserdom, Saalgasse, Schirn Kunsthalle, European Central Bank by Coop Himmelblau, childrens daycare by Hundertwasser, Siedlung Römerstadt with the Franfurter Kitchen, IG Farben office, Darmstadt – housing Waldspirale by Hundertwasser, Mathildenhöhe, Hochzeitsturm.
/ Amsterdam NL – IJ borders & Zuidsas area.
2020 corona lock down
2021 Depot Boymans Rotterdam, NL
2022 Dessau, Weimar, Germany – Hannover (Expo 200 building by MVRDV), Dessau (Bauhaus museum, Bauhaus school building, Kornhaus, Meisterhäuser, Rosslau Siedlung, Arbeitsamt, Junkers factory museum), Weimar (Bauhaus museum, Bauhaus school, art academy)
2023 Zuidas Amsterdam, NL – Valley housing & offices, VU university
2024 Groningen NL – Foum building, university