Buro Breidablik Blog

A Slow Landscape forms the basis for redevelopment of the harbour area's at the Toronto waterfront. Together with a mixed-use strategy a...

A video of the Dutch ministrie of internal affairs promoting self building of your own house. Main reason for them is the cancellation off ...

In order to communicate my graduation project to a Dutch audience who are unknown with Riga I made a sketch of the area, and will illustrate...

Two years ago I had presentation techniqs at the Academy of Architecture. We had to learn painting using oil-based paint. Subject was free ...

Today I had to go to my native Leeuwarden for a family visit. By car I get there within 2 hours. By train it takes almost 3 hours! And I did...

As Tunisia's leader Ben Ali fled, many Libyans were occupied with local government meetings, where, at least in theory, decisions about ...

  An unanimous approval on 17 februari by the city council of Amsterdam makes the Structural Vision 2040 defenitive, after a preparation o...

Latest news is exploding oilprises world wide because of the democration wave what hit the Arab countries lately. Eventough there still is e...

Almere is a 'new town' built in 1975 on new polder land where before 1932 was the sea. It started out as a compact city where a lot ...

A short video showing the slow urbanism of Belgium cities. Antwerp used to be a city with a lot of Belle Epoque buildings. With the inventi...

The buro of Urhahn has a long tradition on the theme of spontaneous development and how to accomodate it in urban design plan or strategies....

The Netherlands used to be a quite consolidated development market. Developers and municipalities could afford to make big projects for whol...

Sadly my entry was no winner, anyway I liked doing it. It's fun to be under pressure and design in a short time making the design a bit ...

The former city architect of The Hague, Maarten Schmitt , is nowadays city architect for the municipality of Leiden. Together with the local...

Recently I finished my analyses period by presenting my findings about Riga, Slow Urbanism and the design area Andrejsala, Petersala and Sk...

Sobyanin is the new mayor for Moscow. Luzkhov and Moscow became too much a city state with it's own king. As long as the king listens t...

Contemporary architecture in Riga and Jurmala in hundred pictures. I especcially also show the many small projects, mainly infill in the exi...

One of my interests is the city of Moscow and it's developments. It is one of the biggest metropoles in Europe, together with London and...

In a previous post I showed the development of Riga by historical maps. Now to compare them good and see wat actually happened I made a sche...

Skanstes iela in northern direction; on th left the NORD bank and on the right the Riga Arena