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Contemporary Dutch Architects Practice, The Netherlands Design Office: Information + Images

post updated 16 May 2021

Monolab Architects – Major Design

Rotterdam City Tower Proposal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: 2009-
Rotterdam City Tower design by Monolab Architects
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Rotterdam City Tower

Monolab – Talk

Monolab keynote lecture

1 Apr 2011
AIAS Quad Conference at SIUC, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

Lecture title: EMBEDDED ARCHITECTURE
Lecturer: Jan Willem van Kuilenburg, of this Rotterdam architecture office

This contemporary Dutch architects office is a practice for advanced design based research in urbanism and architecture, founded in 1999. Simplicity (mono) is linked to experiment (lab).

The lecture will address the architect office’s concern to generate projects through three parameters: density, interlace and parallelism. Along with these issues Jan Willem will focus on aspects from disciplines outside of architecture as inspirers and carriers of research and design within Monolab design processes.

…We are living in an era of interlace. In our present society, life patterns have become increasingly dynamic. Living, working and leisure are blended more and more. This requires a flexibility from everything and everybody that can be generated and fully powered by density, fusion and parallelism as the architecture office’s design instruments: Density is bringing together programs in concentrated layouts. Fusion or interlace is the co-operation and/or merging of previously separated programs. Parallelism is the accessibility to several programs at the same moment in the same place…

CV
ir J.W. (Jan Willem) van Kuilenburg
Principal of this architecture office. Head of final projects at the Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism in Tilburg. Member advisory committee contribution program architecture and research and design Program, The Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam.

Jan Willem graduated with distinction in 1989 at Delft Technical University, Department of Architecture. He worked as an architect for OMA in Rotterdam: one year leading the design team Euralille and two years leading the design team Congrexpo (Grand Palais) in Rotterdam and Lille.

Later he worked at: NS-architects in Utrecht (renamed Holland Railconsult, now StudioSK), KAW-architects in Groningen and the Architect association (renamed AA architecten) in The Hague. He taught at Delft Technical University and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urbanism and currently teaches at the Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism in Tilburg and is regularly lecturing in the Netherlands and abroad.

Recent Monolab Design

Green River, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: 2010-
Green River Rotterdam design by Monolab Architects
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Green River Rotterdam

Monolab Architects – Key Projects

Featured Buildings by Monolab, alphabetical:

Arab Cultural Center, Washington DC, USA
Date built: 2005
Arab Cultural Center Washington DC design by Monolab Architects
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Arab Cultural Center : US Architecture Competition entry proposal

Body House, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date built: 2003-
Body House Rotterdam design by Monolab Architects
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Body House Rotterdam

Building for Bouwkunde competition, Delft, The Netherlands
Date built: 2008
TU Delft Architecture Faculty design by Monolab Architects
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TU Delft Architecture Faculty Building – Design Entry by Monolab

Flowpolis, Gran Canaria, Spain : International design competition
Date built: 2006
Gran Canaria Competition
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Gran Canaria Architecture

Maritime Network, The Netherlands
Date built: 2007
Maritime Network The Netherlands
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Dutch Maritime Network

New residence for the Rotterdam mayor and his family, The Netherlands
Date built: 2007
Mayor's House design by Monolab Architects
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Mayors House Rotterdam : Dutch Architecture Competition entry

Parachute Pavilion, Coney Island, New York, USA
Date built: 2005
Parachute Pavilion Coney Island
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Coney Island Building

Projection House, Japan
Date built: 2006
Projection House
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Projection House : International design competition

Tsunami Memorial, Oslo, Norway
Date built: 2006
Tsunami Memorial Norway
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Tsunami Memorial : design competition

More architecture projects by this Netherlands Design Office online soon

Location: Piekstraat 15C, 3071 EL Rotterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe

Monolab, Architects Practice Information

Architect studio based in Rotterdam, Holland

Dutch Architect Office – MONOLAB urbanism-architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rotterdam Tall Buildings Debate, The Netherlands : Monolab / KCAP / Prof. David Dunster

Website: www.monolab.nl

Rotterdam Architectural Designs

Rotterdam Building Developments – chronological list

Rotterdam Architect

Contemporary Architecture in Rotterdam – architectural selection below:

SAWA, Lloydquarter
Design: Mei architects and planners
SAWA wooden building Lloydquarter Rotterdam
image © WAX
SAWA wooden building Lloydquarter

World’s largest Floating Office Building, Rijnhaven harbor
Architecture: Powerhouse Company
World’s largest floating office Rotterdam
photo : Sebastian van Damme
World’s largest Floating Office Building

The Bellhop Hotel, Witte de Withstraat
Architecture: local
The Bellhop Hotel Witte de Withstraat Rotterdam
photo : Joey Van Dongen
The Bellhop Hotel

Rotterdam Architect Studio

Dutch Architecture

Netherlands Architecture Designs – chronological list

Dutch Architecture

Architecture Studios

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