Repurposing the port: Transforming a former oil-related port area to a mixed-use neighborhood

Since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels have played, and continue to play, a dominant role in global energy systems, and thereby in the social, economic and technological developments worldwide. Unfortunately, these energy sources have their negative side-effects: local air pollution and global CO2-emission. The latter has never been this...

Dutch Design Dock

Redevelopment of the vacant Van Gendthallen in Amsterdam to the Dutch Design Dock by using reclaimed materials from waste flows of the city itself.

Possible future role for architects and developers in reuse

Since the economic crisis in 2008 there is a common impression that things are about to change. No more large scale newly built neighbourhoods, growth is no longer a keyword. More transformation, reuse and redevelopment within the existing city boundaries is. New building assignments like increasing number of 1- and 2 person households and...