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Former headquarters of Vestia in Rotterdam. Vestia, formally Stichting Vestia is the largest public housing corporation (Dutch: Woningcorporatie) in the Netherlands, which is headquartered in Rotterdam. The corporation owns (and rents out) about 78,000 houses [3] and 8,000 other "rentable units" (shops, offices). [2]
The cube houses in Rotterdam viewed from Blaak metro station. Cube houses (Dutch: kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Helmond and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom. They are based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level; its main ...
Ommoord (light green) within Rotterdam (purple) View towards high rise buildings in Ommoord, standing on Ommoordseveld, a protected field next to the farm for children Ommoord is a neighbourhood in the former borough Prins Alexander , part of the municipality of Rotterdam , South Holland , the Netherlands .
Houben, Döll and Steenhuis won a competition to design youth housing at Kruisplein in Rotterdam while they were still students at Delft University of Technology. [1] The project marked a turning point in Dutch social housing which was then mainly oriented towards family units. [2]
1918 Spangen, Blocks I and V, Worker housing in Rotterdam. 1919 Spangen, Blocks VIII and IX. Projects for a factory and a bonded Warehouse, unexcecuted. 1920–1921 Tuschendijken, Blocks I to IV and VI in Rotterdam. 1921 Project for a house in Berlin, unexecuted. 1922 Garden Village in Rotterdam at Oud-Mathenesse.
The Poortgebouw in Rotterdam was squatted in 1980 and two years later the inhabitants agreed to pay rent to the city council, forming a housing cooperative of 30 people with a bar and alternative venue on the ground floor. [7] In Amsterdam, OCCII, OT301 and Vrankrijk are all examples of legalised social
In many cities such as Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht the percentage of social housing approaches or even passes 50 percent. The public (financial) supervision is done by the central fund for housing ( Centraal Fonds Volkshuisvesting ).
Berlage has also received critical acclaim for Plan Zuid, an urban plan for Amsterdam-Zuid, [7] which became a model for social housing developments in the Netherlands and abroad. [8] Berlage inspired different movements, and different groups and schools were established accordingly, during the 1910s-1930s, each with their own view on which ...