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In between the logistical giants of the distribution and business park Honderdland in the Dutch greenhouse area of the Westland, some smaller companies also need proper accommodation.
In this building, three of these smaller companies have been housed. The concept of the building is that it lives up to the sheer size of the surrounding buildings, while at the same time the individual small businesses are accommodated without loosing their identity and image.
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Commercial Building Westland (Click on this and all of the images to get a detailed view)
The companies that are housed in this building profile themselves at the corners of the building, each with a volume that accentuates its individuality set against the backdrop of the large neutral mass of the silver colored overall box.
The overall mass has been conceived by manipulating the typologies of the individual companies so that their "backside programs" were all indeed pushed behind the scene, while their representative sides face the road.
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
The typical "eyes" have all been materialized and colored differently. The public entrance of each building has been placed under the respective "eyes", volumes that function as a billboards as well as canopies.
The overall box was made of corrugated aluminum of the simplest sort, so that all of the limited budget went into the unique features that define each owner.
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
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Commercial Building Westland
Sputnik Architecture - Urbanism - Research
Bert Karel Deuten
Education:
Delft University of Technology, faculty of architecture, 1990-1996, Master in Architecture (Ma-Arch), with distiction
Career:
West 8 1997
O.M.A. 1997-2000
Rijksgebouwendienst 2000-2003
Sputnik architecture, urbanism, research, (founding partners) 2001-
CULD (founding partner)
Henk J. Bulstra
Education:
Delft University of Technology, faculty of architecture, 1990-1996, Master in Architecture (Ma-Arch), with distinction
Career:
UNStudio 1997-1999
Rijksgebouwendienst 1999-2002
Toyo Ito & Associates 2002-2005
Sputnik architecture, urbanism, research, (founding partners) 2001-
CULD (founding partner)
Jaakko Erik van 't Spijker
Education:
Delft University of Technology, faculty of architecture, 1990-1996, Master in Architecture (Ma-Arch), with distinction
Career:
OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, 1996, 1997
NIO architects, 1998-2000
Sputnik architecture, urbanism, research, (founding partners) 2001-
CULD (founding partner)
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6 Comments
Why so many pictures of the same box coming out of the building? The OMA credential roll is already exploited to the max. I have seen this building in many renderings, luxury houses, student projects and industrial parks. not very original but c+ for the effort.
they've done better/more inspiring work. but this kind of buildings have less than cheap budgets, so very difficult to stear away from the cliche. it blends in too easy with the "businesspark"-style buildings you see everywhere in holland next to highways and traintracks that are unimaginative/boring/generic and designed by contractors rather than architects.
morality degree zero is perfectly right...
i know of many offices that only publish certain projects, many they do to keep the cash flow coming but don't include them on their website or any pr material for fear of harming their image. i am not saying that this project should remain hidden, but of course offices can't always refuse work that might be less than ideal assignments (especially now).
Is is just me or does every OMA alumni-started design practice receive inordinate amounts of press. The greatest trick Rem/OMA played on the architectural press-world is convincing anything associated with them is worth talking about.
i don't think rem/oma played that trick, the alumni did.
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