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Neutelings Riedijk Architects

Neutelings Riedijk Architecten is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, founded by Willem-Jan

Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk.

Work and design philosophy

Minnaert University building, Utrecht, 2007

Corrugated panels at the Shipping and

Transport College in Rotterdam.

MAS (Museum aan de Stroom),

Antwerp, completed 2011

The work of Neutelings-Riedijk Architects has been characterized as

having a sculptural, often anthropomorphic quality and a playfulness of

form while following a clear rationality in programming and context.[1]

Because of the public nature of most of the firm's work, Neutelings and

Riedijk see this sculptural quality as a way to communicate the

building's role within its urban or social context.[2]

One of the firm's first buildings was the Veenman Printworks in Ede,

Netherlands. The firm's rational approach to space planning can clearly

be seen in this project, in which a central open-air courtyard separates

the building into its two basic programmatic elements: the printing

operations and the administrative functions. The building is wrapped in

a skin composed of glass tiles, each with screen-printed characters on

the back of each panel. The logo of the company (the letters Va)

literally act as a column, announcing the entrance of the building while

supporting a portion of the upper floor. The entire envelope was

intended to act as part of the graphic identity for the printing firm.[3]

Widely acclaimed is the Shipping and Transport College in Rotterdam,

completed in 2005. Like the Veenman Printworks, the sculptural formand graphic quality of the skin are intended to act as a communications

device enveloping rigorously-conceived programmatic elements.[4]

The

building sits at the southeast corner of the Lloydspier, a reclaimed pier

now undergoing redevelopment. The design of the building takes many

of its cues from the shipping industry, using blue and white corrugated

panels in a checkerboard pattern that evoke the image of stacked

intermodal containers widely seen at the Port of Rotterdam. An

auditorium is cantilevered from the top floor, offering views of the

Maas River and Europort below.

Neutelings-Riedijk was chosen to redesign the campus of the

Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. The project includes over

50,000 additional square feet and the remodelling of existing buildings

on the campus. The proposal is expected to be unveiled in 2008. It will

be the firm's first project in the United States.[5]

Selected projects

Veenman Printworks, Ede, Netherlands; Completed 1996.[6]

Minnaert University Building, Utrecht University, Utrecht,

Netherlands; completed 1997.
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Fire Station, Maastricht, Netherlands; completed 1999.

Shipping and Transport College, Rotterdam, Netherlands; completed 2005.

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Netherlands; completed 2006.

Cincinnati Art Museum Campus, Cincinnati, Ohio; not yet completed.

Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium; completed 2011.

References

[1] Aaron Betsky and Adam Eeuwens,False Flat: Why Dutch Design Is so Good, (New York: Phaidon, 2004)

[2] Kieran Long, Neutelings Riedijk, Icon Jan. 2006 (http://www.icon-magazine. co.uk/issues/031/neutelings.htm), retrieved 3 May 2007

[3] Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk,At Work: Neutelings/Riedijk Architects, trans. John Kirkpatrick (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers,

2004)

[4] NEUTELINGS RIEDIJK ARCHITECTS | College, Rotterdam (http://www.neutelings-riedijk. com/index. php?id=13,234,0,0,1,0)

[5] Cincinnati Art Museum | Neutelings Riedijk Architects Selected for Campus Enhancement and Expansion Project (http://www.

cincinnatiartmuseum. org/absolutenm/templates/ArtTempNews.aspx?articleid=591& zoneid=110)

[6] Neutelings Riedijk Architects (http://www.neutelings-riedijk. com/index. php?portfoliosection2/)

External links Neutelings Riedijk Architects (http://www.neutelings-riedijk.com/)

Scheepvaart en Transport College (Shipping and Transport College) (http://www.stc-r.nl/)

Neutelings Riedijk Architects onArchitecture News Plus. (http://www.architecturenewsplus.com/profiles/

432)
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