Amfora Amstel wins MIPIM Future Projects Award

01/02/2010

The pilot scheme Amfora Amstel, a project developed by Strukton and worked out by Zwarts & Jansma Architects, has won the MIPIM Big Urban Projects Award. This award is presented by MIPIM, the world’s largest and most important real estate fair, together with the professional journal Architectural Review.

Amfora Amstel is based on the much talked about concept Amfora, the city expansion under the canals of Amsterdam. The proposal for a new space has been developed in collaboration with among others the Royal Theatre Carrré and Intercontinental Amstel Amsterdam, and spreads out from the Amstel Hotel to the Stopera, the town hall and opera house of Amsterdam. The cultural and creative potential is high, new collaborations and encounters become possible. Because it tidies up the streetscape and reduces the disruption of the public space, the historical coherence and charisma of Amsterdam gets a boost.

The project is based on the fact that densification is an ideal way to lower CO2 emissions. Townspeople use less individual transport and facilities are shared by a larger number of people. Furthermore, today’s Amsterdam and its cultural institutions are restricted in their possibilities because of lack of space.

The complete plan will be presented in Amsterdam in April.

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    Amfora Amstel