Gerwin de Vries gave a presentation at the Dag van de Ontwerpkracht in Deventer, on a recent design research by Flux. For more information, take a look at NVTL.nl

Image: Thijs ter Hart

Flux has been on excursion in Copenhagen! The team visited 23 projects. During the excursion, the team visited COBE where several projects were explained with a tour through the office.
Overall, three pleasant excursion days in which a lot of cycling took place and Kalvebod Fælled Skole, the City Dune, Israel Square, Konditaget Lüders, among others, were part of the excursion programme. Beautiful places and a lot of inspiration for our projects!

With thanks to Cobe and Mads Bryld Sørensen. 

On the 23rd of September, the Groninger architecture prize was awarded. Gerwin de Vries formed the jury together with Eveline Keizer, Casper Schuuring, Sanneke van Wijk and Jeroen Koning.

Congratulations again to the winners, including the first prize to Bedaux de Brouwer architects with the English Park project. With thanks to platform GRAS (Peter Michiel Schaap en Sanne Wouda) and the municipality of Groningen for their hospitality and organisation!

For more information, take a look at the Groninger architecture prize

Image: David Vroom

Flux has been selected by the Ministerie van Maak! as one of 100 participants to collaborate on new designs for the Netherlands. With this, the Ministerie van Maak wants to contribute to the radical transformation of the Netherlands and offer concrete solutions to the housing shortage, energy transition and the effects of climate change. One hundred test sites have been designated for this purpose; a design for 10,000 homes will be created for each site. Flux is working on the location Lelystad.
The hundred spatial solutions will be brought together in the largest maquette model ever made in the Netherlands. It will be on display in Rotterdam from the 14th of October during the 10th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

Read more about the Ministerie van Maak here.
Image: Ministerie van Maak

With the project Zuiderpark The Hague Flux has won the WLA Honour Award 2022! Over more than 240 submissions worldwide were submitted, whereby Flux had been selected in the category Conceptual-Design. After selection for the longlist, the plan was honoured with the Honour Award. Flux has designed a spatial vision for the Zuiderpark in The Hague. The pressure on the park will increase considerably in the coming years as 10,000 homes will be built in the surrounding neighbourhoods. At the same time, the importance of the park for climate adaptation and biodiversity is increasing. This calls for a revision of the Zuiderpark. Flux has developed a vision in which encounter, climate, safety, health and liveability are central.

Zuiderpark vision was commissioned by the municipality of The Hague

Would you like to know more? Take a look at the Zuiderpark project here

With the projects After corona, Lanen van Zuidwest and Utrechts Heuvelland, Flux is nominated for the longlist of the ARC22 Urbanism Award.

After corona - a design research into the consequences of corona on the use and design of public space, 

Lanen van Zuidwest - a vision for the public space of The Hague Southwest with new green-blue lanes in the city,

Utrechts Heuvelland - a spatial future perspective developed for the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. This design research investigates how new forests can be created around the Heuvelrug, contributing to relieving the pressure on it.

The ARC Urbanism Award will reward urban- and spatial plans that distinguish themselves in quality and innovation. A search for plans that anticipate in the most urgent issues of our time: population growth, housing shortage and social inequality and also environmental problems and climate change.

Nominations and winners will be published in a special ARC22 issue of De Architect in November 2022.

Team Vorm, with Flux Landscape Architecture, Architekten Cie, Temp Architecture and Raumplan wins the tender for plot 2&3 in Weespertrekvaart Midden, Amsterdam. In the proposal of Groei! architecture is in service of nature. The 85% vegetated facades allow the architecture to transform with the seasons. The design forms a three-dimensional landscape with a rich mix of biotopes. The nature-inclusive design of the outdoor space makes an important contribution to the quality of life for both humans and animals. In collaboration with Donkergroep, bureau Viridis and Parallel Visualization.

Read more about Groei! 

Team ION and Green Real Estate, with OZ and Flux landscape architecture, wins the tender of the former monumental Calvijn College, located in the urban subarea Podium Lelylaan. Due to its unique location, the plan forms an important link between the old and new city, near Amsterdam Lelylaan train station. The development is named ‘Het Cornelium’ and will become a creative heart with housing, community spaces and a cultural hub where artists can live and work. The landscape at ground level and the rooflandscape with the communal pavilion make an important contribution to the quality of living for both human and animals.

Image: WAX

Every year the High Water Protection Programme (HWBP) publishes their project book. The project book describes which dike reinforcement projects are programmed for the next five years. Besides an overview of future projects, the project book also offers an inspiring reflection on the field. Flux landscape architecture has worked on three HWBP project books in the past three years and has thus shed new light on the dikes of the Netherlands. In the three HWBP books, the dikes of the Netherlands are examined in more detail, based on the topics chosen by Flux: circularity, mobility and biodiversity. Now that this trilogy has come to an end, we look back on inspiring research and collaboration.

With thanks to Koehorst in't Veld and Sofia Opfer.

HWBP Project book 2022