Kees Christiaanse

In 1988, an international housing festival was held in The Hague to mark the construction of the city’s 200,000th apartment. 45 building lots for a total of 550 houses along a one-and-a-half kilometer strip of the Dedemsvaartweg are now almost completed, in accordance with an urban development plan designed by Rem Koolhaas's Office for Modern Architecture (OMA). Housing projects, dwellings and villas by Kas Oosterhuis, OMA, Mecanoo, MVRDV, DKV, Bernard Tschumi and a roster of other leading firms blend new materials, alternative energy sources, and flexible floor plans to offer a kaleidoscope of possibilities in house-building and housing types. Strip gives a richly illustrated overview of the projects realized thus far, on this one-and-a-half-kilometer-long experiment.… (mais)