2X DUTCH DESIGN AWARD FINALIST

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:26:46 +0800

‘Forum stair’ has been nominated finalist spatial design for the category ‘best private interior’ for the 2010 Dutch Design Award. NEXT architects has as well been nominated finalist with the project ‘Growth Monument’ in the category ‘best autonomous spatial design’.

Final result will be announced October 23.

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FUZHOU waves

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:38:00 +0800

NEXT recently submitted relevant documents to the Fuzhou government for the approval of the ‘Fuzhou waves’ building. The building will accommodate around 330 apartments in different sizes. Apartments differ in size from 30 to 120 square meter.

A design concept is developed in which not the amount of apartments, but the building as a whole is emphasized. Furthermore, in order to create variety in apartments, a range of balcony types is provided. As a result, even smaller apartments are offered choice between for instance large setback balconies to interior ‘French balconies’.

MEIBI snapshot

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:01:02 +0800

MEIBI is a private villa of around 3,500m2 in the North of Beijing. Next to a range of private spaces, the building will include shared spaces for guests like a VIP-room, golf room, library, pool and cinema.

In stead of dissolving shared and private spaces into one single volume, the shared spaces are proposed as distinctive volumes. The contrast between private and shared is furthermore emphasized in materialization: the private volume is of travertine, the shared spaces of zinc.

CROSS CULTURAL DESIGN

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:51:37 +0800

Follow the link below to download the article in the Chinese magazine Urbanism and Architecture. The article discusses our vision of how to create in China in stead of how to make in China.

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XIDAN takes shape

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:05:36 +0800

Located in one of the popular shopping streets in Beijing, the 120,000m2 building is scheduled to be finished end of this year.

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UP-museum realized

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:34:18 +0800

The urban planning exhibition museum has been realized in just nine months from competition to opening. The museum is located in three old factories in Chaoyang Park. The design exploits the relation between old and new, history and future.

The 17,000m2 museum accommodates a range of exhibitions about the urban development of Chaoyang District, Beijing’s CBD, the art district 798 and the Olympic Green. The design further includes a cinema, a 4D theatre and a range of interactive exhibitions.

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ORDOS 20+10

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:56:54 +0800

NEXT goes Inner Mongolia! 20 Chinese architects + 10 international firms have been selected to develop designs for the new business area of the Inner Mongolian capital Ordos. Among them Zhu Pei, Qi Xin, Wang Hui, Chang Yung He and Ma Qing Yun. NEXT architects has been assigned two plots for the development of 20.000 sqm. office floors within the overall theme of sustainability in the local climate conditions of the northern Chinese desert.

G6 NEARS COMPLETION

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:16:23 +0800

G6 nears completion. The first families moved into the nearly nine hundred units of the building complex.

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CHINA FORUM

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:21:39 +0800

Sneak shot of NEXT architects participation in the 2009 Hebei high-end forum on urban and architectural design. Presented were several research-projects from Europe and their relationship with a range of China projects.

UNH-RESIDENCE

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:56:43 +0800

UNH-residence will be located in Shijiazhuang, a city two hours South-West of Beijing.

The project includes around 100,000m2 of residences, accommodated in three buildings. The three buildings loosely resemble the letter UNH and include a large variety of apartment types in size and layout.

IBM Google Earth view

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:57:52 +0800

Google Earth view of IBM.

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URBAN FLUX

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:36:30 +0800

Work of the Beijing Office has recently been published in the Chinese Magazine Urban Flux #7 as part of an essay written by guest-editor Harry den Hartog.

UP-museum progress

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:13:30 +0800

Snapshot of the construction site of the Beijing Chaoyang Urban Planning Museum. Delivery is scheduled for October 1st 2009.

G6 progress

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:05:10 +0800

Snapshot of the construction site of G6. Final delivery is scheduled for beginning of 2010.

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URBAN PLANNING MUSEUM

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:03 +0800

Together with HAYA Architects (CN), NEXT recently won the invited competition for the Beijing Chaoyang Urban Planning Museum. The Museum, 17.000m2 in size, will be located in three old factories in the Chaoyang park, Beijing.

NAi - LECTURE

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 17:40:54 +0800

November 23, 2008, John van de Water will lecture in the Netherlands Architecture institute in Rotterdam. Please follow this link for more information.

‘10x10x10’ - LECTURE

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:34:53 +0800

September 26, 2008, John van de Water will lecture in The Capital Club, 50F Capital Mansion, 6 Xin Yuan Nan Road, Chao Yang District, 100004 Beijing. Please follow this link for more information.

OFFICE ARENA 3

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:41:48 +0800

In just 90 days, the 8,000m2 interior has been realized. More images will follow, in the meanwhile a snapshot of the arena being used...

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ABB GREEN BUILDING

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:38:02 +0800

Located on the edge of Beijing’s BOE business park, this 11,000m2 building will accommodate ABB’s future Demo Center. The building integrates a variety of Green features like vegetated roofs and solar lightning.

TV INTERVIEW

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:20:43 +0800

Interview with NEXT architects Beijing about our projects and experiences in China

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OLYMPIC CONSTRUCTION STOP

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:31:44 +0800

In order to improve air-quality for the Beijing Olympics, all construction projects in Beijing have come to a hold. All our construction projects are as well on hold.

MOSCOW BIENNALE

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:33:12 +0800

The price for ‘best exhibition of the International pavilion’ was given to NEXT architects and the TU Delft for their combined research and practice on housing density. Together they showed the research called ’Block Library’ that was set up by NEXT architects at the university and executed by graduate students. It systematically researches the relation between building size and building quality, extracting some strategies on high quality housing blocks for dense areas. Two projects of NEXT, among others the design for the Normal University dormitory, were shown to illustrate the theory.

BOE BUSINESS PARK

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:35:15 +0800

Sneak preview of a 500,000m2 business park proposal. The project includes a new master plan that integrates buildings that were built in co-operation with Russian engineers, just after the founding of the PR China.

OFFICE ARENA 2

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:37:05 +0800

First glimpse of the theatre becoming reality.

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IBM COURT

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:39:33 +0800

Sneak preview of one of IBM’s three courtyards. The construction is running at full speed and delivery is scheduled before the Olympics.

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NO FOOLING ABOUT

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:43:29 +0800

Under this title, the architecture magazine MARK publishes a 14 pages long article on NEXT architects in their april/may issue.
The article focusses on the steady growth of our firm, work in China and the work for 'droog design'.
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OFFICE ARENA 1

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:45:58 +0800

Construction started of the office arena project. The secondary beams shown will be removed in order to make place for the arena.

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OVERVIEW

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:49:22 +0800

This snapshot of the IBM construction site is baptized ‘overview’.

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SILK TOWERS

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:47:47 +0800

The first 1:5 on site mock-up of Huazheng’s weaving elevation. The project will be realized on the site of an ancient silk market.

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WAVE CORRIDOR

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:50:48 +0800

First views of a wave-deformed corridor for a new 6.000m2 interior project.

RADIO INTERVIEW

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:51:52 +0800

Follow this link for an interview with John van de Water about NEXT architects China projects and motives link