Last week we started on the design of a “woon zorg complex” (housing for care dependent tenants) in The Hague for housing association Staedion. The program consists of 10.000 m2, 120 apartments and commercial/ communal spaces. We have been anticipating this one for some time and we are very happy to start the design. Team
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march’18: Tree planted in patio as Big Green Egg building nears completion
The planting of the tree in the patio of the Big Green Egg building was a symbolic moment for the client and for Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik. The full grown tree was lifted by crane and hoovered some time above the building, before landing on the exact center point of the patio. Completition of
march’18: New commission for the design of 4 high rise apartment buildings in Moscow
We are happy to have reached an agreement with our Moscow client for the design of four 80m high apartment buildings on Raspletina Street in Moscow City’s Khoroshyovsky district. The total floor area of the buildings will be 60.000 m2. Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik
jan.’18: participation in design team for Moscow Renovation Project
In June 2017, the Moscow Duma unanimously approved the demolition of more than 4,000 apartment blocks in various sites across Moscow city, home to nearly 2 million people. Most of this housing is privately owned, the consequence of the privatisation of state housing after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has been a highly controversial decision,
dec. ’17: Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik selected to design a 9.000 m2 housing block in Amsterdam
As part of the new developments near the train station of Amsterdam Sloterdijk, the housing association Eigen Haard will develop a 50 meter high housing block next to the railway tracks of the Hemboog. The program is 9.000 m2, with 130 apartments and a social-commercial space for creative industries. We won the architects selection with
dec. ’17 New commission to design a complex with 3 high rise apartment towers in Moscow
As part of the redevelopment of the area called Wellton Park on the Prospekt Marshala Zhukova in Moscow, this project, dubbed K11, will be the spectacular final act that completes the district. Our project Dutch House, the two apartment towers that will be completed early 2018, also stands in this neighborhood, as is the Bon
Good Affordable Housing
A practical research project by Sputnik, 15 housing associations, subsidized by the ministry of the interior. In 2013 the national policy regarding social housing shifted considerably. According to the new policy, the rent for social houses should be less subsidized and more fit to the income of the tenant.