ONO – Our New Office | Amsterdam
With ONO – Our New Office – we introduce a new standard for affordable, Paris-Proof offices design. OZ’s years of experience in designing buildings have taught us that we have become increasingly dependent on technology to achieve sustainability. Unfortunately, while more technology makes buildings appear more sustainable on paper, it also makes them unaffordable. Our […]
Orato | Amsterdam
This future proof office tower with large void and terraces offers unique shaped interlocking workspaces with impressive views over the city. The city is a time machine. The changing of architectural and planning views is sometimes so close together like layers of sediment that you can read like a textbook on urban renewal. That book […]
Downtown | Rotterdam
Historic Rotterdam meets its modern era in a daring cantilevering housing tower with ample outdoor spaces and green roofs on a sturdy inviting urban plinth. The city is a time machine, and the changing architectural and planning views are sometimes so close together like layers of sediment that you can read it like a textbook […]
Binck City Park | The Hague
This project demonstrates that architecture is not just about designing large buildings but about shaping cities where people want to live, work, and feel at home. The urban redevelopment of the Binckhorst in The Hague raises fundamental questions about the balance between scale, identity, and meaning in our built environment. How do you create large-scale […]
The Floating Games | Amsterdam
With this design research we explored the potential of Amsterdam to foster the Olympic games in a sustainable fashion. Our investigation included innovative solutions such as temporary and reusable floating constructions for the often controversial architectural projects that frequently burden host cities. The Floating Games is the idea to use the IJ in Amsterdam as […]
The Hive | Amsterdam
This design introduces in a former industrial area an apartment building connected by a luscious garden to the former Calvijn College, a listed modernistic school that will be a new cultural heart. Amsterdam has a vast shortage of housing while the outskirts of Amsterdam with ample industrial zones and post war public housing are socially […]
Oostenburg | Amsterdam
This historical shipyard redevelopment into a high-density mixed-use area reveals Amsterdam’s historical layers. A sturdy wharf floor with ample planting provides a counterbalance to the contrasting buildings echoing the industrial past. Oostenburg, an historical industrial island in the lee of Amsterdam’s city centre, is transformed into a lively mixed use residential district. Like many islands, […]
Schonenvaert | Haarlem
This sculptural “ground scraper” depicts the densification of the post war suburb. An iconic shaped brick building with luscious inner garden and diverse community marks the junction with its historic city centre. The great need for housing requires inner-city densification in which many dispute the use of space. Dealing with existing interests and desires concepts […]
Boogiewood | The Hague
The Binckhorst is an area in transformation. Where industry and large-scale business once dominated, a vibrant urban district is now emerging, blending living, working, and leisure. Boogiewood, the largest timber construction project in the Benelux, not only integrates all these functions but also marks a major step forward in ‘Paris-proof’ urban development. In the first […]
The Terraced Tower | Rotterdam
This icon of stacked individual happiness adds a new identity to Rotterdam’s ever evolving skyline. With ample outdoor spaces, it introduces a new tower typology. The city is a time machine, and the changing architectural and planning of Rotterdam as a modern town are provocative as well as hip and trendy. It urges forever higher, […]