The buildings that JSA has designed on the Westerdok Island are nominated for the Amsterdamse Nieuwbouwprijs 2010, a prize for the best newly built housing development in Amsterdam. The buildings are part of the so-called VOC-Cour. For the prize, a longlist containing 58 projects was composed of projects that were delivered between August 2008 and August 2009. Ten of...

On Friday September 17, the exhibition ‘Brick Dresses: An Exhibition on an Exacting Material’  will open at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. The exhibition presents seventeen contemporary brick facades exploring the intersection of material use, engineering and architectural expression. A research group of Academy students has systematically re-drawn the facades and...