Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts

Hendrik P. Berlage (1865-1934) architect

Hendrik Berlage was a Dutch architect with an international reputation. He created original architectural styles, this way he acquired his celebrity. He had his own vision of how renovation of architecture needed to be done. He wrote everything down and then published a number of books.

He influenced many architects, especially by top project for the Exhibition in Amsterdam (1898-1903). He was also working on decorative arts including furniture and paneling. And because he was so passionate about spaces and how to fill out he did the urban expansion of Amsterdam South, that of The Hague and Utrecht.

Most famous buildings
Exchange in Amsterdam (1898 - 1903).
Model Ranch Schipborg Zuidlaren (1914).
The hunting lodge of St. Hubert in the Hoge Veluwe.
Me the Netherlands in The Hague (1925).
Christian Science Church in The Hague (1925).
The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.

Alexander Bodon (1906-1993) architect

Alexander Bodon was a Dutch architect who worked with U. Cysouw.

Main buildings
Van Melle's Factories in Rotterdam (1947-1948) together with U. Cysouw.
Shop House and bookstore Schroeder and Dupont on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam.
Houses in Watergraafsmeer.

Albert Boeken (1891-1951) building engineer

Albert Boeken is a Dutch building engineer. From 1917 he was also active as an editor for the magazine 'Forum'. He also restored many buildings that were destroyed during the First World War.

Main buildings
Villas in Bilthoven (1928).
Apartment Complexes in Amsterdam (1928).
The substation of G.E.B. in Amsterdam (1923).
The school complex in Oostzaan (1925-1926).
The rebuilding it, in the First World War devastated, drive to the airport of Schiphol (1928).
Apollo in Amsterdam (1933).
A restaurant in Bergen aan Zee (1948).
A studio in Bergen-Inside (1949).
Restoration of the rectory in Largen (G.) and Geldermalsen.