27 June 2017 – On the Archined website Elmar Koers discusses the Kloosterbuuren project. ‘The spatial quality of the new ensemble is high. In masterly fashion, Van der Heijden makes alleys, streets and a square with the most simple means: >>>

14 June 2017 – On the 2nd and 3rd of June I was a guest at the CANactions architecture festival in Kiev. The theme of this yearly event was: values. My contribution was a lecture on the topic of luxury. >>>

26 May 2017 – On 5 July the book ‘Post Piraeus’ will be launched at a festive gathering in Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam. In 1994, the housing block Piraeus was completed to the design of Hans Kollhoff and Christian Rapp. >>>

23 May 2017 – Imagination, the word does not always have a nice resonance. Yet, the Dutch state architect Floris Alkemade used the word quite often in his opening speech at the exhibition Wonen in Stadshart in Groningen. At the >>>

19 May 2017 – Mock-ups of the brickwork were made at the construction site of Churchillpark. The brightly red bricks of the atrium block appear very well. The two point blocks and row housing are in decent yellow-brown tones. The >>>

29 March 2017 – The renovation project for the splayed apartment blocks in Rotterdam Ommoord features in a new reference book on social housing design published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Bringing together 24 exemplar case studies >>>

14 March 2017 – This year, the artists of the Bluecoat in Liverpool are celebrating the 300th anniversary of their building. In 1717, Bryan Blundell established a ‘Blue Coat Hospital´. In the centuries that followed, the building was perpetually changed >>>

18 January 2017 – Ever more people like city living. There is ample space available, yet many people do not find a proper place. Especially older people, starters on the housing market, entrepreneurs and urban families find this difficult. The >>>

16 December 2016 – German architecture schools still offer courses in Building Studies. At the university of Kaiserslautern the students Sandra Brand and Eric Schindler studied the housing at Oranjeboomstraat. They wrote me that the type of the House with >>>

30 November 2016 – The ground breaking ceromony of the dwellings at Churchillpark in Leiden was guided by Paul Laudy, Counselor of the City of Leiden and Heleen Aarts, director of urban development of Amvest. It is expected that the >>>

24 september 2016 – My designs for Berlin feature in the book WerkBundStadt Am Spreebord which presents the location for the new WerkBundStadt, comments on the results of the design procedure, and presents in detail the designs by the 33 >>>

7 September 2016 – Because city living becomes ever more popular in Groningen, the City Council is organizing the event City Heart Dwelling. Together with 10 colleague architects and urbanists I will investigate the possibilities to supply more dwellings within >>>

10 August 2016 – The website of the magazine De Architect opens with a picture that I took of one of the most beautiful buildings I know, the Sant’Angelo monastery in Milan. This was completed in 1939 to the design >>>

3 August 2016 – Ten years after completion of the so-called Starter Homes in Pleinen, Hoofddorp the project is topical again. This month, the magazine Architectural Review presented the dwellings for first-time buyers as an exemplary housing estate in their >>>

11 July 2016 – I am going to build in Berlin. Together with 30 other architects I was invited by the Berliner Werkbund to contribute to a new model housing estate. After the famous example of the 1927 Weißenhofsiedlung a >>>

20 June 2016 – Once a year the so-called City Dialogue takes place in Bremen, Germany. Representatives of social housing trusts, real estate managements, city administration, education and the development and design world come together to discuss topical themes. This >>>

25 May 2016 – After twenty years, a new monograph on the work of my Flemish colleagues De Smet Vermeulen Architects is now available. Critical texts from independent authors and a detailed discussion of seven projects, by way of texts, >>>

3 May 2016 – Some weeks ago, together with my colleague-architect Hugh Strange, I re-visited the housing project at Oranjeboomstraat in South Rotterdam. As a practitioner he looked at various details such as the way the chamfered street corner has >>>

12 April 2016 – The Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands 2015-2016, which I am an editor of, is finished. This year again I have studied hundreds of designs and visited some 70 of them together with my colleagues Kirsten Hannema, Tom >>>

23 March 2016 – The tasks for design of the model housing estate at the river Spree have been divided. The 34 participating architects drew names from a jar held by Claudia Kromrei, chair of the Berlin Werkbund. Each architect >>>

1 March 2016 – Work of my office is presented in the book Building upon Building. The book was published earlier as a special issue of the magazine Forum. Antje Engels and Marius Grootveld invited a range of European architects >>>

1 February 2016 – The social houses at Oranjeboomstraat have drawn attention in Switzerland. The magazine Werk Bauen + Wohnen published an article by the architect Lukas Imhof under the title ‘160 Meter Realismus’. He characterizes the stacked maisonettes as >>>

21 January 2016 – By coincidence I was present at a special [and perhaps even historic] event in the autumn of last year. There was a party at the Kleiburgflat in Amsterdam Bijlmermeer. On the occasion of the founding of >>>

28 December 2015 – The book ‘Brick, an Exacting Material’ edited by Jan Peter Wingender is out. As visiting professor at the Amsterdam School of Architecture Jan Peter invited me to join his Research Group Material & Design. Jan Peter >>>

21 December 2015 – Last Wednesday the Rotterdam Architecture Price 2015 was awarded. My ‘houses with two doors’ at Oranjeboomstraat were nominated for the price which this year was focussed on the theme of housing. As an important public building >>>

13 October 2015 – Chief editor of the magazine De Architect Harm Tilman went on a field trip together with my friends Floris Cornelisse, Job Floris and Jan Peter Wingender and myself to visit and discuss projects designed by us. >>>

8 October 2015 – Alderman Joris Wijsmuller led the ground breaking ceremony of the second phase of my Kloosterbuuren project by drilling the ‘first pile’ of the project for the second time. It turned out to be an informative, sunny >>>