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Fisher, R.C. (author), Clarke, N.J. (author)The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) undertook an extensive road and bridge building programme which commenced during the latter half of the 1880s and ended with the effective demise of that independence in 1900.book chapter 2014
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Abrahamse, J.E. (author), Clarke, N.J. (author)Johannesburg might be known as the City of Gold but it was the great South African popular history writer TV Bulpin who, when chronicling the social history of the ZAR until its demise, labelled the short lived Boer homeland as the ‘Golden Republic’ in this book of the same name.book chapter 2014
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Fisher, R.C. (author), Clarke, N.J. (author)The age of enlightenment brought together the knowledge and intelligence of disparate disciplines, and in the era of European colonialization, a concern with the collection and identification of the alien and then naming and classification of the exotic. By the end of the C19 that project was nigh complete, and Europeans relocating to distant...book chapter 2014
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Clarke, N.J. (author)The architectural and social context in the Netherlands from which Sytze Wierda and his compatriots journeyed the 11 000km to the Transvaal Republic (ZAR), has been described elsewhere in this publication (see Chapters 1 and 2) as has their architectural response – the main theme of this book. They arrived in a still undeveloped and partly...book chapter 2014
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Clarke, N.J. (author)The remnant built fabric of the Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens era in the geographic area that encompasses the former ZAR has its source in three categories of endeavour: (1) the Department of Public Works of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (DPW), (2) the rail and ancillary development of the NZASM, and (3) those architects and draughtsmen of Dutch...book chapter 2014
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- Meurs, P.H. (author), Voerman, L. (author) book chapter 2014
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Komossa, S. (author), Marzot, N. (author), Cavallo, R. (author)The fact that hybrid buildings can be interpreted as extremely condensed urban blocks, increasing the city’s density and contributing to its public realm, forms one of the key interests of this research. According to its European interpretation, the “ground scraper” is not only public because of the character of its plinth facing the street, but...book chapter 2014
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Van Emstede, C.I.C. (author)In dit essay wordt het idee van ‘culturele draagkracht’ vergeleken met carrying capacity, een concept dat is ontleend aan de ecologie en in aangepaste vorm wordt gebruikt in het eco-, erfgoeden cultuurtoerisme. Uitgaande van de recente veranderingen in de monumentenzorg wordt ingegaan op de verschillende dimensies van historische gebouwen en de...book chapter 2013
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Meurs, P.H. (author), Van Thoor, M.T.A. (author)De verbouwing van het Rijksmuseum ging om meer dan het aanpassen van een verouderd museum aan de eisen van de tijd. Staatssecretaris Rick van der Ploeg schreef op 19 september 2000 aan de voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer en de direc- teur van het Rijksmuseum dat het kabinet had besloten tot de totale vernieuwing van het museum. Het gevolg hiervan...book chapter 2013
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Nevzgodin, I. (author)‘A New Building inside the Walls of the Old One’ Some 50 years ago, after the renovation of the Rijksmuseum had been completed, managing director Arthur van Schendel triumphantly commented: In the summer of 1962, the Rijksmuseum became the focus of attention when it opened its complex of 30 new galleries and an auditorium with almost 400 seats,...book chapter 2013
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Wagenaar, C. (author)Built on the edge of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century canal ring, the Rijksmuseum has always formed the transition between the historical centre and the urban extensions that began in the late nineteenth century. For obvious reasons, the museum was designed to face the existing city, but the municipal authorities ordered the construction of a...book chapter 2013
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Meurs, P.H. (author)The selection of architects for the new Rijksmuseum took place in 2000. The intention was to split the task in three and to select three architects: a chief architect, a restoration architect and an architect for the Atelier Building on Hobbemastraat. For government commissions of this magnitude a European tender procedure is mandatory. Around...book chapter 2013
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Van Thoor, M.T.A. (author)Bij de verbouwing van grote monumenten in overheidsbezit is het in Nederland gebruikelijk om naast de hoofdarchitect een restauratiearchitect aan te stellen. Daarom werd er voor het Rijksmuseum een aparte selectie onder vijf restauratie- architectenbureaus gehouden. Bij deze complexe opgave bleek de formulering van de opdracht en de...book chapter 2013
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Van Thoor, M.T.A. (author)When large government-owned monuments are renovated it is customary in the Netherlands to appoint a restoration architect alongside the principal architect. Consequently, for the Rijksmuseum a separate selection was held among five architectural restoration firms. For this complex assignment, it proved difficult to formulate the brief and the...book chapter 2013
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Meurs, P.H. (author)De keuze voor de architecten van het nieuwe Rijksmuseum speelde in 2000. Het was de bedoeling de opgave in drieën te splitsen en drie architecten te selecteren: een hoofdarchitect, een restauratiearchitect en een architect voor het Atelier- gebouw aan de Hobbemastraat. Voor dergelijke grote overheidsopdrachten is een Europese...book chapter 2013
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Van Thoor, M.T.A. (author), Meurs, P.H. (author)On 13 April 2013, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam reopened after a renovation process that had lasted more than a decade. The building, which originally dates from 1885, was designed by architect P.J.H. Cuypers (1827-1921). In the space of over a century, the building underwent numerous major and minor renovations, prompted by lack of space, growing...book chapter 2013
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Wagenaar, C. (author)Gebouwd aan de rand van de zeventiende-eeuwse grachtengordel vormde het Rijksmuseum vanaf het begin de overgang tussen de historische stad en de uitbrei- dingen vanaf de late negentiende eeuw.book chapter 2013
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Meurs, P.H. (author), Van Thoor, M.T.A. (author)The renovation of the Rijksmuseum was about more than adapting an outmoded museum to the demands of the time. On 19 September 2000, State Secretary for Culture Rick van der Ploeg wrote to the Chairman of the House of Parliament and the director of the Rijksmuseum that the government had decided on a total makeover of the museum. This meant that...book chapter 2013
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Nevzgodin, I. (author)Een halve eeuw geleden constateerde de hoofddirecteur van het Rijksmuseum, Arthur van Schendel, na de verbouwing van zijn museum nog triomfantelijk: ‘In de zomer van 1962 vestigde het Rijksmuseum de aandacht op zich door de openstelling van een complex van dertig nieuwe zalen en een gehoorzaal van bijna 400 plaatsen, een nieuw gebouw binnen de...book chapter 2013