geuze

dutch urban landscape guru adriaan geuze is in town, piloting a workshop called ”tokyo canal project – reinventing tokyo as a water city”.
and he’s been in tokyo before. during a lecture last friday on some of his water related projects, he kind of confessed that the typology of the borneo sporenburg units is based on tokyo’s narrow patio houses.



borneo sporenburg, amsterdam


ichibangai, tokyo

everyone who ever walked around the peninsula will agree that geuze’s narrow houses do very well in amsterdam’s windy docklands. interior patios instead of big windows. low rise high density.



patio in... amsterdam

no need to tell geuze’s lecture was very refreshing, an essential shot of dutch funky pragmatism. nice to see some cows and polders, also. another one of those shots I enjoyed recently - junkspace by rem koolhaas.