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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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New Kit
Amsterdam, Netherlands
HM Architecten Amsterdam was asked by the housing corporation Eigen Haard Amsterdam to design a landmark for a neighbourhood called De Kolenkitbuurt in Amsterdam. It had to be placed on the corner of Bos en Lommerweg and Leeuwendalersweg in an area where urban renewal is put to a start. The urban plan projected on this place a building that would give a new identity to the neighbourhood. The New Kit will be placed near metro station Vlugtlaan.The tower will be 57m high in 17 floors and it will contain 58 apartments and 2000 m2 of offices and working spaces.The New Kit is leaning (9 degrees). The fact that it’s leaning is because it gives the building a idiosyncratic character. It generates a dynamic, forward and optimistic movement to the West (Go West!!). This is strengthened by the fact that the tower comes forward out off the line of the other buildings in the Metro zone. This makes the building more visible along the track.The tower is parallel to the Bos en Lommerweg. Because of this the building is as slender as possible looking along the Bos en Lommerweg. The facades are materialized in white natural stone. In this way it echoes the optimism in which the area was build after the second World war. Idiosyncratic, slender, simple and effective, just like the western townships of Amsterdam are themselves. In a simple and proper way. Fair priced houses and a offices and working space that gives opportunities to the development of the neighbourhood. The New Kit will be a positive icoon for the renewal of the "Kolenkitbuurt".
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