Source : Atelier Kempe Thill Photography: ULRICH SCHWARZ HIGH-DENSITY LOW-RISE Towards high-density low-rise This project is in its core a typological experiment: a maximum of individual homes with private gardens on a relatively small urban plot; a model for the development of more compact settlements with a density of approx. 40 houses per hectare. It aims to offer an alternative to living on the periphery of big c

Source: Atelier Kempe Thill Photography: ULRICH SCHWARZ A new school of art During the 19th century, art schools were built as important public institutions that took the form of classical palaces which celebrated the public character of the arts. Cities were proud of their newly founded art academies and celebrated the future artists within monumental architecture. Since the 20th century, this situation has undergon

   New Poverty = New Richness: With the realisation of this apartment building in Zwolle / Netherlands the Rotterdam based architectural practice Atelier Kempe Thill created 64 new highly comfortable social housing units and offered an alternative to the typical deck-access housing of the 1970s. At the dawn of a new era of neo-liberalism in Europe, social housing is once again regarded with increasing indifference. T

Fuente: Europaconcorsi Fotografía: © Ulrich Schwarz A Parliament for the German-Speaking Community After the end of World War I, with the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, the neutral area surrounding the municipality of Kelmis, Belgium, and the German administrative district of Eupen-Malmedy, Belgium, are annexed. As a result, some seventy thousand Germans become Belgian citizens. Since large-scale state reforms are ena

Fuente: Tectónica Blog Fotografía: Architektur-Fotografie Ulrich Schwarz “Zilverzijde” Viviendas sociales. Fase 1 88 vivendas sociales y 27 viviendas con terraza y parking colectivo En 2006, encargan a Atelier Kempe Thill el diseño del Bloque 10 en el barrio de Moerwijk, en la Haya, con un total de 88 apartamentos y 27 viviendas adosadas como resultado de la negociación con Vestia, la constructora más grande de Holan

Fuente: Europaconcorsi Fotografía: SCHWARZ | ARCHITEKTURFOTOGRAFIE The municipality of Borsele in the Dutch province of Zeeland was founded in 1970 by the merging of 13 villages. Heinkenszand was assigned centre of this newly formed administrative unit and a new town hall was built for the 25.000 inhabitants. More then 30 years after the opening, the building was in need of rehabilitation. On the one hand, the façade

Fuente: Atelier Kempe Thill, Archdaily Fotografía: Ulrich Schwarz In the garden city Osdorp grew during the extension of the city of Amsterdam after the Second World War on the basis of the urban plan of De Stijl – architect Cornelis van Eesteren. Since the nineties, a large urban renewal project is in progress in which the poorly maintained buildings are subsequently demolished and are replaced by new ones. An attem