Boom!ng Amersfoort
Ten years of construction in the city
‘Boom!ng Amersfoort, Ten years of construction in the city’ reviews the highlights of the last ten years of new architecture and urban design in the growing town of Amersfoort and offers a multi-facetted picture of this highly productive and creative period. The exhibition will feature not just public buildings, housing schemes and examples of urban design, but also interiors that are open to the public. It shows that architects from all over the Netherlands and even from abroad have contributed to the built environment of Amersfoort.
A two-part exhibition
The main exhibition area will accommodate a quick summary of fifty outstanding architectural and urban design projects executed in Amersfoort over the last decade. Forty of them were nominated for the biennial Amersfoort Prize for Architecture in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 and exhibited in that context. ‘Boom!ng Amersfoort’ also includes the nominees for the 2010 prize. In the course of the exhibition, a professional jury of Dutch city architects will choose its favourite from among all fifty projects on show.
The smaller exhibition area will offer a more detailed look at the ten nominees for this year’s prize. The public will be given a chance to have its say on the best project completed in the last two years by voting on special-purpose ballot papers.
Watersteeg, 'Boogkerk' (2001)
Architect: Blokhuis and Braakman, Amersfoort
Photo: Siebe Swart
Over the years, all fifty projects have been photographed by five well-known photographers, each of whom was invited to cover the ten nominees in one instalment of the competition. Their photographs form an integral part of the exhibition.
The photographers concerned are: Siebe Swart (2001); Jannes Linders (2003); Jeroen Musch (2005); Harry Cock (2007) and Mike Bink (2010).
Dodeweg 31, Crematory 'Rusthof '(2003)
Architect: EGM architecten, Rotterdam
Photo: Jannes Linders
Public Prize and professional jury
The choice of the jury of city architects and the winner of the Public Prize 2010 will both be announced at 5 pm on Friday 16 April at Kunsthal KAdE.
The exhibition will mark the close of the current cycle of five instalments of the Amersfoort Architecture Prize.
Laan 1914, Reception building Memorial site 'Kamp Amersfoort'. (2005)
Architect: INBO Woudenberg, Haver Droeze Landschapsarchitectuur.
Photo: Jeroen Musch
Nominees Boom!ng Amersfoort revealed.
The identity of the ten architectural and physical planning projects nominated for Boom!ng Amersfoort 2010 can now been revealed. Out of the 50 projects under consideration, the following ten have been nominated:
1. Bloemweg 31 to 65, apartementbuilding, Poolen Architekten, Amersfoort
2. Orkaden 2 to 80, Quadrant houses, Architectenbureau Sluijmer and Van Leeuwen, Utrecht
3. Smallepad 34, 'Between', INBO Drachten in coöperation with Rob van Zonneveld, Amersfoort
4. Smallepad 3 and 5, RCE & Kunsthal KAdE, Navarro Baldeweg Asociados SL, Madrid in coöperation with A+D+P, Amsterdam
5. W. Barentszstraat and surroundings, Steenhuis Bukman Architecten, Delft
6. Bunschoterstraat 19, farmhouse, Rik Lagerwaard Architect bna bv, Amersfoort
7. Grote Koppel 5 and 6, restaurant and office, FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), London, GB
8. Lemmerkade 48, house Pythagoras with office space, Architecten Cie, Amsterdam
9. Lemmerkade 12, house Cicero, De Zwarte Hond bv, Rotterdam
10. Olympus 26, tennisclubgebouw LTC Vathorst, OOKarchitecten, Amersfoort
Initiators
‘Boom!ng Amersfoort’ is being organised by the KAdE Architecture Centre. Further information available from: Johanna van der Werff, j.vanderwerff@kunsthalkade.nl | 033 - 4603086
Bachweg 67, villa (2007),
architect: Rik Lagerwaard, Amersfoort
Photo: Harry Cock
