23 April 2018 – The architectural historian Werner Oechslin invited me to contribute to the colloquium Civilian Architecture. We met in Werner’s library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Surrounded by an impressive amount of antique books, an international company of architects and >>>

Hans van der Heijden Architect has been appointed by Travel for London (TfL) and the Greater London Authority (GLA) to the Architecture Design Urbanism Panel (ADUP), which is comprised of twelve practices as part of a framework for the design >>>

28 February 2018 – It doesn’t happen every day that Dutch social housing, a refurbishment project even, makes it to the Wall Street Journal. The critic Julie Iovine writes about the Splayed Apartment blocks renovation in Rotterdam Ommoord: On the >>>

26 February 2018 – Last weekend I was in New York for the opening of the exhibition ‘Social Housing, New European Projects’ in the Center for Architecture. My contributions were a large model of the refurbishment of the Knikkers in >>>

6 February 2018 – Street Architecture is published. After three and a half years of hard work in my own office, a new portfolio appears and with it, a new monograph. Karin Templin, a London and Florence based expert in >>>

5 February 2018 – We work on a new social housing project at Persoonshaven in Feijenoord, as Rotterdammers say: Upon South. On the occasion of the preliminary design, we made an imaginary vedute from the window of the new houses. >>>

24 January 2018 – Across Europe, a new generation of architecture practices are transforming affordable housing. Responding to continued need, changing clients, and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes can be delivered at scale while piloting >>>

17 January 2018 – The editors of Architectenweb invited me to write a monthly column for their website. This will appear under the title The Carpenter’s Eye. I like that term. In the Dutch language it stands for the ability >>>

15 January 2018 – The scaffoldings on the construction site of Churchillpark in Leiden are being taken down. Now it shows how beautiful the repeating windows are and how the mixed brown bricks relate to the cream coloured window timberwork, >>>

1 December 2017 – A book has been published on the manifestation City Heart Dwelling (Wonen in Stadshart, WISH). The city of Groningen commissioned me to study the Glaudé Mansions at Hereweg. The result is now included in the book. >>>

21 November 2017 – In the context of a lecture series on the urban dwelling block I was invited to present the houses at Oranjeboomstraat at the Architecture Faculty at TU Delft. It was busy. The 2nd year Bachelor students >>>

19 November 2017 – In the spring of 2018 I will be a guest teacher at the Architecture School of Rotterdam and Universität Liechtenstein in Vaduz. I will run parallel design courses in which students research the Palazzo as the >>>

31 October 2018 – The Houses with 2 Doors in Feyenoord have been nominated for the international Brick Award 2018. The Brick Award is an independent award. The competition takes place every two years. Out of all submissions worldwide, an >>>

18 September 2017 – Topping out of the four housing blocks at Churchillpark in Leiden is nearing. The point block will get another two layers, as the patio block from which the photograph was taken. The façade brickwork is on >>>

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 >>>

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 >>>