There are many professionals who have used this past year to get together and make action plans to tackle the problems that COVID-19 brought to light. In the Netherlands there is a great movement towards reinstating centralized planning as we have an…
Gerrit Rietveld designed his last chair for jeweller Steltman's shop at the age of 75. With this design he once again proved his status as a pioneering designer. The chair owes its name to the The Hague jeweller and royal purveyor Steltman…
The most important thing to us as designers at Atelier Ten is a building cannot be designed to be environmental without a keen understanding of the context and climate. In the 20th century, the so-called "international" style of architecture become the new…
The real wealth of Amsterdam is less its being shaped in the omnipresence of water but is the open and tolerant social character. For centuries Amsterdam has been the centre of the international trade and cultural exchange. Historically, it all…
