Queen's Yard: Integrating the neighbourhood

Marketplaces are one of the most lively and magnetic spaces in the cityscape. They play a significant role in the history of the development of London, especially in the ‘long’ 18th century. Marketplaces have passed the test of time, reflecting on the socio-economic and urban changes and are still in use nowadays, to quote Ken Jones “we are what...

Honigpoort: a community space for and by improvisation | bricolage

The shopping mall the Molenpoort (Nijmegen) was constructed in 1972 and is creating this hyperreality; an indoor world without rain, wind or snow. The invention of Victor Gruen, a foreign typology from America occupies all the negative space within the building block. Victor Gruen’s idea for the mall was a building where the community would...

The Maassilo towards a machine for exchange of culture: Working as a link between users, local and international culture

Between 1850 and 1900, the city of Rotterdam transformed into an international harbour city. In the twentieth century, the harbour rapidly grew larger to being the largest harbour in the world for over forty years. The first part of the Maassilo was built in the beginning of the twentieth century. As the harbour grew larger, the Maassilo...

A Creatively Inclusive London?: Nomadic urban creative clusters as drivers of socio-economic integration and spatial quality in peripheral urban areas

As the creative industries started gaining their recognition as beneficial forces for socio-economic transformation in the 1990s, there have been plenty of discussions regarding such phenomenon in urban planning policy and academia. While certain sectors of creative industries are enjoying the economic growth brought by globalisation, some...

Explore the Seclusion: The Head of the Cape

The history of Hembrug goes back to around 1900, when the manmade land got its military production function. For almost a century this area was used for the production of ammunition, weapons and explosives. However, after losing its original function, the area became vacant. The creative subculture, such as artists and squatters, came to this...

Amstel InnovUnion: A Podium for Creative Industry

As one of the most important and attractive city in Europe, Amsterdam has seen a great growth of its residents in the recent years. How to offer enough houses for the new arrivals will be a continuous question for the managers of the city. The densification process has already started. Wasted lands like abandoned houses and old industrial areas...

Refitting Vacancy for the Creative Industry: A Strategy to Create and Maintain a Creative Community

The high vacancy rate in the office building market in the Netherlands is mainly explained by an overproduction of office space. The demand is expected to decrease further due to aging of the population, a changing economy and the decreasing need for space. A possible new end-user is the creative industry. The different working standards of this...

Refitting Vacancy for the Creative Industry: A Strategy to Create and Maintain a Creative Community

The high vacancy rate in the office building market in the Netherlands is mainly explained by an overproduction of office space. The demand is expected to decrease further due to aging of the population, a changing economy and the decreasing need for space. A possible new end-user is the creative industry. The different working standards of this...

The role of business incubators in the development of sustainable clusters of cultural and creative industries

Clusters of cultural and creative industries are rather widespread in and surrounding inner cities. The development and dynamics of these clusters are objects of study of various conceptual approaches: some aim at their role and significance for urban development, others at their development and dynamics as such. These latter approaches focus...

RE|Factory

The building task of the future in the Netherlands is to transform existing buildings such as vacant office buildings, monuments and industrial terrain. Because of the floor space and the story height of such an industrial building, it is common to put multiple functions in the new design, but an important problem when doing that, is the...

Priorities in Accommodating office user preferences: Impact on office users decision to stay or go

Purpose When current accommodation is unsatisfactory, office organisations consider relocating to new accommodation that optimally facilitates their main processes and supports image and financial yield. However, due to high vacancy levels, public opinion and governmental awareness oppose new office construction. Reusing existing buildings could...

Strategic Development for Creative Companies in the AV-Industry

The end result of this project shows the importance of, and content of the direct steps that need to be taken in order to strengthen the portfolio and improve the workflow of Creatieve Kracht. Creatieve Krachten is a video production company active in three different client segments: commissioned productions, live registrations and in-house...

Adaptability: How to accommodate changing user preferences

Purpose: When current accommodation is unsatisfactorily, office organisations consider relocating to new accommodation that optimally facilitate their main processes, supporting image and financial yield. However, due to high vacancy levels, public opinion and governmental awareness oppose new office construction. Reusing existing buildings...

Working through paradoxes in professional creative service firms: Lessons learned from design competitions

With the recent focus on austerity and efficiency, dealing with competing tensions has become increasingly critical within the creative industry. Also project-based industries and construction are suffering from a severe downfall in commissions. Architecture is at the intersection of these industries. As such it is a fertile ground for...

Chances for creative talent in Parkstad Rotterdam: Urban regeneration in Rotterdam-Zuid based on the development of a vital local creative economic cluster

Rotterdam-Zuid is dealing with large socio-economic and spatial-physical problems. The plan that should contribute to a sustainable solution to these problems are as follows. (1) The development of the Parkstad area into a lively mixed urban environment. (2) The establishment of new local routes and connections between neighbourhoods, shopping...

Creative with History: Creative industry in the inner-city of Delft

Problem statement: In Delft is a high demand for living and workspace for the creative industry. Between 2014 and 2020 2,400m² workspace must annually be realized to meet the demand of the creative industry, this is not achievable without business centres or incubators (Louters Bureau, 2008). According to Florida's theory is creativity and...

The new cultural city: The future of Tainan city in Taiwan’s metropolitan development process

With the construction of high-speed railway in 2007, and the establishment of five direct controlled municipalities along the west coast of Taiwan in 2010, theses changes offer opportunities to redirect and redefine the role of Tainan and its spatial strategy. The project first discuss the possible morphology for south region. With serious...

Key elements of creative city development: An assessment of local policies in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

The creative city thesis states that creativity — a creative milieu — is an important precondition for innovation to flourish. Yet, the creative city is often considered a hype, something momentary. This raises the question of whether this thesis has any long-term value. This paper reflects on this question from a local policy perspective. It...