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Architects OMA have proposed flower auction houses, cable cars and an outdoor theatre as part of Central Holland’s bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022.

The six-month-long festival would occupy a 60 hectare site in the city of Zoetermeer and comprise a loop of zones connected by pathways and rivers, making them accessible to both bicycles and boats.

Each zone would be dedicated to a different aspect of the horticultural industry, including technology, innovation, distribution, culture and leisure, and would link up with existing greenhouses and a whitewater sports complex.

The masterplan is competing with MVRDV’s designs for an artificial peninsula of gardens in Almere, as well as with proposals from the cities of Amsterdam and Groningen.

The winning candidate will be announced in October.

In recent months OMA have also designed offices with a sliding facade, a performance institute in New York and a contemporary arts centre in Moscow. Rem Koolhaas gave Dezeen a quick introduction to that project, which you can watch here.

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Here’s some extra information from OMA:

OMA designs 2022 Floriade masterplan for Holland Central

As part of a team including the province of South Holland, eight local municipalities, and ARCADIS, OMA has designed a 60-hectare masterplan proposal for Floriade – the biggest horticultural expo in Europe – in 2022. Held every ten years since 1960, and attracting an average of 2 million visitors from around the world, 4 different cities across the Netherlands are competing to host the next Floriade.

OMA is representing Holland Central, with a site in the middle of the Randstad, in Zoetermeer, with 5 million inhabitants in a 50km radius. OMA has designed a circular plan that connects a variety of existing conditions on the site, all presently related to horticulture: high-tech green houses, a future agro-innovation campus, an Olympic-grade leisure park and traditional Dutch landscape near the source of the river Rotte, which visitors can explore by bike or by boat. The design focuses the fair’s activities into five concentrated zones covering essential aspects of modern horticulture: technology, innovation, the global market, leisure, and culture. The park includes a 2,500-seat open-air theatre, a Land Art zone, global village, and a cable-car connection spanning across the ring.

The winning bid will be announced at the end of the current Floriade, now taking place in Venlo, in October.

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Dutch architects MVRDV have proposed extending the city of Almere into a lake by building a square-shaped artificial peninsula covered in gardens (+ slideshow).

The 45 hectare extension is part of the Dutch city’s bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022 and would host the six-month festival as well as providing land to build a new university plus offices, homes and leisure facilities.

Designs for the exhibition comprise a patchwork of gardens that the architects have called a “plant library” as well as a series of pavilions and greenhouses.

Once the expo is over, the green development would provide a permanent addition to the fast-developing city that was first established in 1976 on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

“We dream of making green cities,” says Winy Maas of MVRDV. “A city that is literally green as well as ecological. A city that produces food and energy, cleans its own water, recycles waste and holds a great biodiversity.”

The winning candidate is expected to be announced in October.

MVRDV have come up with a series of design concept for Almere, including a series of artificial islands and a neighbourhood based on a string of beads.

Winy Maas also chatted to Dezeen about their UK house project Balancing Barn in an interview we filmed last year. Watch the movie »

See all our stories about MVRDV »

Here’s some more information from MVRDV:

The City of Almere presents its plans for the Floriade 2022 candidature. Almere is one of the four Dutch cities left in the race for the prestigious horticultural Expo which takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands and is currently open in Venlo. The MVRDV plan for Almere is not a temporary expo site but a lasting green Cité Idéale as a green extension of the existing city centre. The waterfront site opposite the city centre will be developed as vibrant new urban neighbourhood and giant plant library which will remain after the expo. The ambition is to create a 300% greener exhibition than currently standard, both literally green and sustainable: each program on the site will be combined with plants which will create programmatic surprises, innovation and ecology. The site with a vast program such as a university, hotel, marina, offices and homes will at the same time be more urban than any other Floriade has been before, literally constructing the green city. The Nederlandse Tuinbouwraad (NTR) will decide in October which city will be organising the next Floriade in 2022.

Amsterdam’s metropolitan area stands at the verge of a large housing growth. With 60.000 new homes the city of Almere will realise the largest share of this new development. Almere has the ambition to combine the urban growth with improved quality for its citizens. MVRDV proposes the ‘green’ extension of Almere city centre opposite the existing centre, transforming the lake into a central lake and connecting the various neighbourhoods of the Dutch new town. The plan foresees a dense exemplary and green city centre extension which at the same time is very flexible: an invitation to the Floriade organiser NTR to develop the plan further.

Winy Maas discusses the plan: “We dream of making green cities. City that is literally green as well as ecological. A city that produces food and energy, cleans its own water, recycles waste and holds a great biodiversity. A city which might even be autarkic: A symbiotic world of people, plants and animals. Can this symbiosis between city and countryside offer essential argumentation to the global concerns regarding urbanisation and consumption? Can we realise in the next ten years an exemplary ‘green’ city which realises this synthesis? And could this city be the Floriade 2022?”

Almere Floriade will be developed as a tapestry of gardens on a 45ha square shaped peninsula. Each block will be devoted to different plants, a plant library with perhaps an alphabetical order. The blocks are also devoted to program, from pavilions to homes, offices and even a university which will be organised as a stacked botanical garden, a vertical eco-system in which each class room will have a different climate to grow certain plants. Visitors will be able to stay in a jasmine hotel, swim in a lily pond and dine in a rosary. The city will offer homes in orchards, offices with planted interiors and bamboo parks. The Expo and new city centre will be a place that produces food and energy, a green urban district which shows in great detail how plants enrich every aspect of daily life.

MVRDV earlier developed the Almere 2030 masterplan and the radical DIY urbanism plan for Almere Oosterwold, and has engaged in vast research concerning urban farming, urban density and many aspects of modern agriculture. In 2000, MVRDV realised the Netherlands pavilion at the Hanover World Expo. Almere is one of four remaining candidate cities besides Amsterdam, Groningen and Boscoop region. In October the winning scheme and city will be announced by the NTR.

Program (selection): 45ha city centre extension with panorama tower, green housing exhibition (22.000m2/115 homes) hotel (30.000m2), university (10.000m2), conference centre (12.000m2) various expo pavilions (25.000m2) smart green house (4.000m2), care home (3.000m2), childrens expo, marina, forest, open air theatre, camping and other facilities (25.000m2).

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Le photographe hollandais Aernout Overbeeke a commencé sa carrière en 1970 principalement dans la mode. Depuis, il collabore avec des grands journaux comme le New York Times Magazine. Amateur de voyages, ce dernier nous dévoile ses clichés dans une sélection envoutante.

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Slideshow: Rotterdam studio 2by4-architects designed this gabled summer house so the walls of one corner fold open.

Blackened timber lines the walls and roof of the building, while the ends are glazed to create framed views out across the water and surrounding Dutch lake district.

An angled wall inside the building conceals a shower, toilet, kitchen and storage on one side.

A fireplace suspended from the ceiling can be rotated to face out towards the decked jetty beyond, to keep residents warm when they’re sat outdoors.

We’ve also featured a waterside summerhouse in Norway – take a look here.

The text below is from 2by4-architects:

On an island of 5 by 100 meters in the Dutch lake area ‘Loosdrechtse Plas’ 2by4-architects designed a unique recreational house. The house is a subtle frame that captures the view from the inside out and outside in. Completely anticipating on the client’s needs 2by4 has designed the house in such a way that it can customize the interaction with the surrounding nature. One of the glass facades can be completely opened so that the wooden outdoor terrace becomes part of the interior. To even more lift the inside-outside barrier the dark wooden facade can be folded open, creating a panoramic view to nature. The folded facade becomes an abstract perpendicular element that floats above the water. By opening this part of the facade the wooden floor of the living area is now directly connected to the water enabling the inhabitants to access the lake from the living room.

Although the size of the house is limited it still contains all the functions that are needed for comfort. Shower, toilet, kitchen, closets, storage and other functions are all integrated into a double wall. According to the need of a specific function the wall can be modified so that the spatial configuration changes, resulting into different atmospheres. The fire place, that hangs from the ceiling, also contributes to the changing of atmospheres because it can be rotated towards the outdoor terrace for those cozy summer evenings.

The orientation of the house is based on sunrise and sunset. In the morning cold light shines on the east facade, illuminating the white interior. In the evening the warm light flows into the west facade, announcing the end of the day.

Visitors that arrive at the house enter it in a series of sequences. Seen from the main land the house floats above the island. Arriving on the island itself the visitors are guided towards an elevated jetty that brings them to the terrace on the other side. The terrace continues towards the inside of the house where it stops halfway. Here the floor changes material and becomes a raised platform from where the visitors can look back at the nature they just came from.

Slideshow: while the face of this waterside house near Amsterdam is cloaked in perforated aluminium, the rear is entirely glazed so that residents can watch the sun setting.

Designed by Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk for himself and his family, the Rieteiland House is located on the recently developed island of IJburg and has three floors that face out across the water, as well as a basement below.

Openings in the floorplates create double height spaces in both a large ground-floor dining room and a first-floor living room.

A staircase core is also driven through the full-height of the building to house storage closets, a toilet for every floor and a dumbwaiter.

Three bedrooms occupy a portion of the ground floor, while a fourth is situated on the top floor diagonally opposite a screened roof terrace.

More windows are screened behind the perforated metal facade, but can be revealed using electronic controls inside the house.

You can see more houses in the Netherlands here, including one buried beneath a mound of earth.

Photography is by Imre Csany of Studio Csany.

Here’s some more text from the architect:

Architect Hans van Heeswijk designed the Rieteiland House for himself and his family. In fact, the attractive plot of land is part of a newly established island at IJburg on the outskirts of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It asked for a house that is completely oriented on panoramic views to the park and landscape. It is carefully sited so as to create views to unobstructed daily sunsets.

The intention was to maximize the relationship with the terrain, and create surprise between an austere closed front and the opposite effect in the interior.

To achieve this, the boxlike street façade is completely cladded with perforated aluminium panels, of which some can open electrically to make way for the windows behind them.The aluminium panels are punctuated by perforations that show a pattern of reflecting waves. The façade on the water side is completely made out of glass panels and sliding doors.

The house is an elongated rectangular block of three floors and a basement. Inside, the aesthetic shifts and the space literally opens up. Most of the floors have a double height and are open. In this way the house can be seen as a sort of spatial grandstand. This creates a panoramic view towards the west, the water and the park, on every level.

A roof terrace adjacent to the bathroom on the second floor provides a place to sit unseen. Every night magnificent sunsets can be watched from the house, thus creating a special holiday atmosphere.

In the core of the house, a three floors tall service ‘tower’ (‘magic-box’) contains a toilet on each floor, storage spaces, installation shafts and a dumbwaiter. For acoustical reasons this block is cladded with distinguished small wooden wenge slats.

The house is more than architectural design; there are a series of products designed for the house: majestic large dining tables seating twelve people with a glass top for the interior and another with perforated rvs top for outside use. A collection of door and window fittings designed for the house, is included by manufacturer Post & Eger to their collection as ‘Wave’. Bookshelves, fireplace, a cooking island with a built-in mobile trolley are only few of the other specials for the house.

Particular attention is paid to the energy. It uses heat and cold storage in the soil, a heat pump and solar collectors on the roof. Sustainability is addressed by an efficient and compact design, good insulation, the effective use of available energy, the use of natural materials and assembly techniques.