The ultramodern Villa Kogelhof in Kamperland, the Netherlands has just been awarded one of the prestigious Dutch ARC13 Architecture Prize. The building's designers, Amsterdam-based Paul de Ruiter Architects, were honored with the prize — alongside three other award winners — at a festive award ceremony in Rotterdam. — bustler.net
Photography by Jeroen Musch.
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That's the best they can do with an unlimited budget?
And why is this tagged sustainability?
Is it possible for a single family dwelling to be further divorced from the land?
it kind of has the feeling of a nice aeroport lounge. its defnitely interesting; there's a subterranean and a superterranean one but virtually nothing substantially terranean. its an architectural touch-me-not. i love touch me nots. always demand a bouquet of touch-me-nots from your date. an test of his or her ardour.
It IS spectacularly aloof.
A machine for living.
A display cabinet for humans.
do better. Its a ratchet with people inside. When twirled, they bang on the walls and make noises.
D-pressing
Not one positive comment here? Too much Revit on weekends guys?
i thought my comment was positive...
Thayer-D and t a m m u z only have negative things to say about anything. It's really fun to read their contributions.
I really love clicking things here and seeing their incredibly insightful commentary. It brightens my day considerably.
I was actually positive here at one point. But i dont have to be reverential...Fred 'canned-applause' Scharmen.
The right to be critical, distant, even contradictory and contrary is the right of all minds. As is the right to choose when to accept and embrace.
Clapping your flippers at any fancy looking thing because its fancy looking is the hallmark of a trained seal.
If you choose to see that im being negative, then its your loss. If you care to see that im affirming by choosing to be critical, then you'd be wiser and more well rounded.
Otherwise, please provide us with your canned applause and flipper clapping to the criticized projects ... Maybe someone will throw you a sardine.
@miles per Bustler it's is "net-zero" or designed to be or something...
"energy neutral" is termed used.
t a m m u z - You have every right to be critical, by all means. You also have every right to be predictable and boring. Carry on.
Flippers?
yup.
flippers.
hows that for boring and predictable?
this is an odd duck. That landscape looks as bleak as hell bu t it is interesting that they've planted a bunch of young trees that should someday gorw into a forest. Definitely some long term thinking. Odd that it replaces farm land but maybe that is good. I don't know.
That bit that's probably most irksome is the comment in the article that ask "why can't sustainability be prada?" Uh, duh, because fashion is about whatever is hot at the moment and throws out whatever was hot yesterday. In that respect, prada (as an emblem of fashion) is the exact opposite of sustainability.
Sustainable, becasue driving is the key green feature of this house. Floating the space in air to be heated and frozen through the seasons is also a great green feature. And I'd be remiss not to point out the floor to ceiling green glazing, becasue nothing says green like a wall of glass. At least it will be above the flood waters.
Actually your insipid invective, Fred Scharmen, is predictable and boring. It shows a trivial and lowlife disposition towards others' contribution that you may not agree with. As I said before, my point here was actually positive (i compared this project to a delicate flower with a nostalgic name- and I didn't do so ironically (ok, just a little bit...but that is not to equate with negativity).
Irrespective of your own misunderstanding, you continue to carry that misrepresentation of yourr own making. Which means, not only are you trivial for bothering to hurl really insignificant petty and non-substantiated snide attacks at other people's point of view, you are also being stupid.
I don't think calling this project a flower is predictable , on the other hand, i believe you yourself are obviously prone to being predickable. that is to saw, you want to be such a thing in advance of the validity or need to be one.
It seems these Ivy League Universities extolling Kayne West and graduating trained phoques blancs on the calibre of this so-and-so, is where the Zoo lives on. Yale graduate you say? Canned phoques.
Go read your own comment history, t a m m u z. You're able to come up with an overwrought way of saying "this sucks" on almost every single project posted.
Mind your business. No sardines for you.
*waves flipper*
Thinking they have solar panels on the roof with batteries in the basement, and use geothermal wells to provide radiant heat in the concrete slab floor which is insulated from the exterior of the building by some sandwich system unseen to the eyes. The glass being Low E "40" and kryponite gas inner mixed with Argon with Solar ban 80 glass. Ya that is the ticket. Now how much did it cost.....Ca Ching!
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