Natuurbeleving-centrum De Oostvaarders

Fifty-five colourful houses in green surroundings. As a resident, you park your car on the fringes and walk or bicycle along the path to your home. The path is dominated by diagonal lines, embroidering on the Anthroposophic ideas of Rudolf Steiner.

A lively composition of conjoined volumes rising in height towards the edge of the plot. The rear is straight and uncomplicated, with attractive fenestration and a suspended balcony.

Unique in the Almere landscape is this succession of different buildings focused on nature, culture, leisure and education in the countryside. Buildings made of natural materials seem to effortlessly blend with the surrounding nature.

The middle floors of an apartment block are harder to sell, so the lower five and upper seven storeys were given greater volume than the middle four.

A complex where architecture and nature achieve maximal synergy. Large wooden residential barns each containing five or six dwellings lie scattered on mounds in a garden-like landscape.

Book the City Walk Almere Centrum and discover the special architecture in the centre of the city.

One of the more successful projects from the viewpoint of Gewilde Wonen (‘Desired Living’, a movement towards liberalised housing).

The La Defense office complex is well integrated within the larger urban plan. Both its height and the entrances into the courtyards tie in with the larger site.

Book the City Walk Almere Haven and discover the oldest part of Almere with canals, a market square, nostalgic architecture surrounded by residential areas with many courtyards and the Havenkom.

A dike-side villa in Almere 6 metres in width and 16 metres deep, with a blocky, vertical form. The ground floor is partly embedded in an artificial embankment which is an elongation of the dyke that borders the garden.