Trip to Berlin

On October 17 and 18, Emiel Lamers visited the capital of Germany once again, four years after his last trip to Berlin in 2012. On Monday he got a private tour by director Nadja Bartels through the Tchoban Foundation, a Museum for Architectural Drawing in Prenzlaurer Berg. His article about the building was published in A10 #53. Lamers also revisited the beautiful Natur-Park Sündgelände and Tempelhofer Park, both of which appeared in A10 magazine # 52 in a follow-up article that he wrote about three original parks in Berlin.

 

Architectura et Amicitia in Budapest

From Thursday September 29th to Sunday October 2nd, the Dutch architecture society "Architectura et Amicitia" (AetA) travelled to Budapest on an intensive study trip. For two and a half days, Emiel Lamers guided the 30 participants through Buda & Pest.  As a special thank you, AetA offered Lamers a one-year membership. Among the group were two architects who had already participated in a similar study trip to Budapest organised by the AetA in the 1980s.

Tour guiding in September

During the warm month of September, Emiel Lamers guided three different groups in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The month of touring started with two boat trips on September 9th with a total of 120 students from HAN (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen). One week later, Lamers showed 14 representatives of the Pensioenfonds Architectenbureaus some new architecture in the centre of Rotterdam. And on Friday, September 23rd, Lamers showed a group of 24 employees of Norconsult, Norway's largest consultancy firm, the Amsterdam University College and some new buildings along the IJ riverbanks.

Study trip to Amsterdam & Rotterdam

From July 6th to 9th, l'École du Renouvellement Urbain came to the Netherlands with 88 participants. On Thursday morning, ELA organised three lectures at the Municipality of Amsterdam: Sabine Lebesque (Amsterdam city historian), Marien de Langen (board chairman of Stadgenoot) and André Krouwel (Professor of Political Science at VU). For the afternoon programme, Lamers organised several work visits to destinations such as the Eastern Docklands and the former NDSM ship wharf. On Friday morning, the group met with the Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, who discussed his thoughts and actions on integration in an hour-long lecture. In the afternoon, architect and professor Wessel de Jonge presented the renovated Van Nelle Factory.

Architecture & Wine in Hungary

From June 23rd to 26th, ELA organised, together with archi:travel, an architecture & wine trip to Budapest. After touring contemporary architecture in Pest and Buda (Gödör, ING building, Várkert Bazár, Kopszi gát), the group visited several wineries in the Hungarian countryside (Pannonhalma & the village of Etyek).

Study trip to Ljubljana

From June 9th to 12th, Emiel Lamers organised an architecture trip for archi:travel to Slovenia for 30 French architects, planners, clients and building engineers from AMO (Architecture & Maîtres d'ouvrage, Bretagne / Pays de la Loire). We started the programme with a presentation about Slovenian architecture at the Faculty of Architecture. Over the next two days, we met Bostian Vuga (Sadar+Vuga), Tomaž Krušec (Arhitektura Krušec) & Milan Tomac (Enota) and also visited the new buildings of Ofis, Bevk & Perovic, Marusa Zorec and Dekleva & Gregoric.

Study project for high school in Hoorn

On April 19th, ELA (together with Joost Barendregt Architectuur) presented three different options for extending an existing high school building in Hoorn. These options are part of a larger proposal for reorganising and extending the Oscar Romero School (Tabor College). At the moment, we are working on option A (a large separate sports hall), which we will present to the school and our client (Stichting Mevrouw Meijer) at the end of May.

Lecture at the Delft University of Technology

In April 2016, 60 architecture students from the Delft University of Technology will visit Budapest under the direction of dr. ir. Willemijn Wilms Floet and her colleagues at the Faculty of Architecture. In preparation for this journey, Emiel Lamers gave a lecture on the March 22nd at the university about Contemporary Architecture in Budapest. As it was a public lecture, the presentation was attended not only by students but also by other interested members of the community: Saskia Molema from the Hungarian Embassy in The Hague, graphic designer Pierre Swinkels, who designed the exhibition about the book, and architect Roeland Dreissen from Genootschap Architectura et Amicitia who is preparing a study trip to Budapest at the end of September 2016.

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Tour guiding in winter

Despite some very cold days in January, there are still many foreigners coming to the Netherlands to admire Dutch contemporary architecture. The month started with a seven-hour private taxi tour for a German investor from Munich. On the January 21st and 22nd, 29 colleagues from investor Groupe Artea came to Amsterdam. On  January 30th , 60 Swedish professionals from ÅF Consult came to see the newly built island IJburg and the centre of Almere, designed by Rem Koolhaas (OMA). At the beginning of February, 40 students from HAN (Hogeschool Arnhem-Nijmegen) visited the Amsterdam city centre (Scheepvaarthuis and OBA). And finally, on February 5th, 120 colleagues of the French developer OGIC came to see contemporary architecture in Rotterdam (see last picture with Winy Maas of MVRDV in the Market Hall).

2016

Emiel Lamers Architectures wishes you an inspiring 2016.

Article about study trip in French magazine

In je dis... , the French magazine of Architectes & Maitres d'Ouvrage (AMO) / Rhône-Alpes, a six-page article has been published about their study trip in Amsterdam last June. During a three-day programme, Lamers showed around 34 architects and clients from Lyon and surrounding areas. He also contacted the architects Walter van Dijk (NL Architects) and Joost Vos (Benthem & Crouwel architects), who explained their projects on site.

Article about Hello Wood Project Village in A10 Magazine

In the current issue of A10 magazine (Nov-Dec 2015, number 66), an article was published about a wooden “pop-up” village in Hungary, written by Emiel Lamers. Last July, Lamers was invited by the Hello Wood organisation as an architecture critic to observe this yearly art camp. Photos of the evening were taken by architecture photographer Tamás Bujnovszky, who also took most of the pictures published in Lamers's book, Contemporary Architecture in Hungary.

Conference Erasme-Descartes

At the end of October, Emiel Lamers participated at the 13th Conference Erasme-Descartes in Amsterdam. The day was opened by the French Ambassador to the Netherlands, Laurent Pic, together with the Dutch Ambassador in France, Ed Kronenburg. French photographer Frédéric de la Mure presented his impressive photos of the negative effects of global climate change. Prior to the conference, Lamers showed him the newly built floating housing district in Amsterdam. (go to: Chapitre IV, des maisons flottantes)

Six architecture tours in September

Last month, Emiel Lamers guided six different international groups with a total of more than 200 people. The participants varied from employees of the Dutch architecture pension fund to landscape architects from the UK, USA and France and civil servants from the Norwegian city of Drammen, near Oslo. The month ended with a four-day study trip that ELA had organised for the French Association of Urban Development (AFDU). A total of 67 architects, builders, civil servants and local politicians visited Rotterdam and Amsterdam during an extensive programme involving more than 20 speakers and architects. Among these speakers were officials of the Municipalities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, architects Sjoerd Soeters and Bjarne Mastenbroek and architecture historians Sabine Lebesque and Fred Feddes.

Tiësto on our roof

World famous DJ Tiësto has filmed a part of his new music video on the roof of our office in the centre of Amsterdam. Just click on the picture to watch the video: