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Architects: Powerhouse Company
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: LDPi
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Maastricht Pathé Theatres / Powerhouse Company
- Area: 5000 m²
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Manufacturers: Blitta Gevelsystemen, Clement Beton, Lammers Constructie, Timmers Engineering & Consultancy
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Professionals: Deerns, EUP Design, IMd Raadgevend Ingenieurs, Ingenieursburo DGMR, Van Wijnen
AD Interviews: Nanne de Ru / Powerhouse
At the ARKIMEET event in Istanbul, Turkey, we had the chance to catch up with Nanne de Ru, a co-founder of Powerhouse Company and the current director at The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture.
“I think architectural thinking is quite often about how to manage complexity, how to manage the complexity of different stakeholders -- an architect is a mediator between those different demands. And politics operates quite often in similar ways,” he said on the connection between architecture and politics. “I think what politics and architecture have in common is the need for strategy and for thinking and to design strategies."
Check out some of Powerhouse Company’s designs below and watch the full video above to see what else de Ru has to say about politics, empathy and education in architecture.
Nykredit Motivation Prize 2012 Awarded to Powerhouse Company
Powerhouse Company, an office that focuses on the fields of architecture, urban design and research, was recently awarded the Nykredit Motivation Prize 2012. The prize of over 13.000 euros was handed out by the Danish Minister for Culture, Uffe Elbæk, at a ceremony held at Nykredit’s headquarters in Copenhagen. A practice established by architects Nanne de Ru and Charles Bessard with offices in respectively Rotterdam and Copenhagen, they are an example of one of the new global-Danish architectural practices starting to mark its presence on the Danish architectural scene. More information after the break.
Rien ne va Plus, an exhibition by Powerhouse Company
Over the last few months architectural firm Powerhouse Company have been working on the project Rien ne va Plus. This project consists of a research on the economic crisis and its intricate relation with architecture. This research resulted in an exhibition, that takes place at the architectural instute NAiM/Bureau Europa in Maastricht (The Netherlands), a reader that was published in collaboration with the magazine A10 and a series of debates.
You can also find the architect’s description after the break, along with photos of the exhibition taken by Johannes Schwartz and Christiaan van der Kooy, and a video created by Powerhouse Company.