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Our thoughts are with our Ukrainian and Russian friends and colleagues during these very difficult times. We hope they are safe and stay strong. Team pauldevroom + sputnik has been involved in several housing projects in Moscow. During the work on those projects we met lovely people with whom we have a long standing working relationship and with whom we share the core values of peace, freedom and an open society. With regard to the current situation we regretfully stop our activities in Russia until further notice.
Jun 2022
The Lycka residential tower is located right next to Amsterdam Sloterdijk station and consists of 100% social rent apartments from housing association Eigen Haard. The building is about 50 meters high and is built up form five blocks on top of each other. Each block has different housing types: two-, three- and four-room apartments and studio apartments. On the ground floor is a group of art studio apartments for young artists. We are very proud that the project has been nominated for the Amsterdamse Nieuwbouwprijs 2022.
Nov 2021
On November 24th 2021 Wellton Gold won the Grand Prix at the annual Moscow Urban Awards ceremony. The project also received the award for Best Business Class Apartment Complex. The Grand Prix is awarded by public vote, after a pre-selection of 10 projects by the professional jury from all nominations in all categories.
Each time when a project is finished, we try to send a professional photographer to make beautiful pictures of the built result of our efforts. Ruben Dario Kleimeer has been one of our favorites for years now. Great architecture photography goes far beyond getting the horizon horizontal and the colors right. When we commission a photographer we always ask for two types of images. One type is a series of pictures we call “the wedding reportage”, that show all sides of the project “as if you’re there”. The other type is the artist’s interpretation of our work.
Oct 2020
The Adriaan Dessing Prize is a bi-anual architecture award for outstanding architecure projects in the Westland area of The Netherlands. We are very proud to be the winner of both the jury prize and the public vote prize . From the jury report: The journey from the modest and inconspicuous exterior of the building to the high-end and timeless interior is a gem in the Westland area. The jury highly values the architectural quality of the project, that has been elaborated from the plan layout to the construction detail. The jury emphasizes that the cooperation between architect and client has lead to the synergy that is required to realize such an outstanding project.
During the Covid-19-lockdown period, some work got postponed, so we suddenly had some spare time. We were physically separated as well, setting up workplaces at home. As an experiment we entered some open design competition, while communicating as a team solely through Slack and Zoom. We enjoyed the experiment and the resulting design, but we even more liked it when after 2 months, we could join each other in the office again.
During the Covid-19-lockdown period, some work got postponed, so we suddenly had some spare time. We were physically separated as well, setting up workplaces at home. As an experiment we entered another open design competition, while communicating as a team solely through Slack and Zoom. We enjoyed the experiment and the resulting design, but we even more liked it when after 2 months, we could join each other in the office again.
Since 2014 we have been working with Centraal Orgaan opvang Asielzoekers, COA, on different assignments for refugee housing. We find it a very rewarding job to work on projects to enhance the living circumstances of people in hardship. The general brief for refugee housing is relatively new. In The Netherlands (permanent) refugee centers only exist for 30 years now. In this period the base type for housing evolved somewhat, but we found there was still a lot to be gained on the level of the typology.
Jul 2019
We are proud that the design we made for 360 apartments in two towers in Moscow is received so well!
In 2008 Sputnik and Juurlink and Geluk landscape architects founded CULD Complex Urban Landscape Design to work on international large scale planning commissions. In the period from 2009 until 2011 CULD worked for the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council on three successive master plans for the restructuring and expansion of desert towns.
