Construction has started on the residential block “Samen Bredius”, located in the well-known Spaarndammer neighbourhood in Amsterdam. The project was initiated by NL.development, won through a tender procedure, and is being built by Balast-Nedam. The aim of the new building is to add medium-price rental apartments, allowing for transit within the neighbourhood. As well as to fully blend into the surrounding residential blocks of the famous Amsterdam School, with detailing in profiled brick and love of masonry. The construction is entirely of CLT timber by Derix, making a daring experiment by combining a brick facade with a wooden construction.

For more information about this project, please visit: Samen Bredius

Last night, during the award ceremony in the beautiful, Dudok-designed town hall of Hilversum, our social housing project Volante was declared the winner of the 9th edition of the Hilversum Architecture Prize! The jury unanimously chose the project as the best out of the 10 nominees. A beautiful artwork was presented to us, which we celebrated together with our client, Dudok Wonen.

For more information, please visit: Hilversumse Architectuurprijs and Volante

‘Mien Ruys – and the modern garden’, is an exhibition on the work of renowned garden and landscape architect Mien Ruys, which opens on Friday 28 March at 17:00 in the Van Eesteren Museum, Amsterdam. The museum has commissioned Monadnock for the scenography/exhibition design, in collaboration with graphic designer Lyanne Tonk.

For more information, please visit: Van Eesteren and Lyanne Tonk

Michiel van Raaij of Architectenweb initiated a conversation about the work and motives of Monadnock, which was recorded as a podcast for the series of conversations published on Architectenweb.

Listen to the podcast (in Dutch) here: Architectenweb

Our project Volante is nominated for the Hilversum Architecture pize. The winners will be announced during a ceremony in the beautiful, Dudok designed townhall of Hilversum on the 10th of April.

The Dutch website Architectenweb published an article on a recent realisation by Monadnock: the residential building CREVAS in Hart van de Waalsprong, Nijmegen.

For more informtion, please visit: Architectenweb and Crevas

On behalf of the publication ‘Ten Scenographies. A Matter of Architecture’ by FELT, Monadnock was one of the invitees to participate in a panel discussion. To reflect with Sofie De Caigny, Alice Haddad and Caroline Voet on the practice, work and the relationship between exhibition design and architecture in the practice of FELT, and beyond. The event took place at De Singel, Antwerp and was organised by the VAI.

For more information, please visit these links: VAI and FELT

The Belgian platform Archipel invited Hermann Czech and Monadnock for a dialogue, which took place in the auditorium of KASK in Ghent, on Umbau and motives in both practices (picture by Arnout Fonck)

For more information please visit this link: Archipel

The social housing project ‘Volante’ in Hilversum contains 108 apartments for the client Dudok Wonen. It is part of Nieuw Zuid, a development of five buildings that densify this lush neighborhood.

The shortlisted competition entry for the new S.M.A.K. Museum in Ghent (BE), by the team FELT-MONADNOCK & aNNO architects, enhances Ghent’s historic Citadelpark by concentrating the two-faced museum of contemporary art, in compact circular pavilions, freeing up more green space and harmonizing with the park’s heritage value.

Two barrel-shaped volumes integrate seamlessly into the park’s layout and preserve the Floralia hall’s autonomy in both form and function. Both buildings reinterpret the historical structures flanking the impressive hall, presenting themselves as two siblings: similar in appearance yet each with a unique identity. One is the SMAK-hall which is extroverted, transparent, and open, acting as a polyvalent hall for the park, the surrounding museums, and the city. The other is the SMAK-house, which more introverted, serving as an intimate home for the permanent collection of the S.M.A.K.

We enjoyed the collaboration with FELT, aNNO, ABT and Rudy Luijters-Veldwerk, and congratulate the winning team David Kohn architects and noA architects. For more information, please visit this link: SMAK