Tony Fretton: Andreas Ensemble, Amsterdam West, The Netherlands.Tony Fretton's Andreas Andreas is a common male name in Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Flanders and Scandinavia. In the Greek language, from which it derives it means valiant. It may refer to:
Amsterdam (ăm`stərdăm', Dutch ämstərdäm`), city (1994 pop. 724,096), constitutional capital and largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, North Holland prov. West that is emerging as a popular and attractive alternative to the city centre. Planned before the Second World War and largely constructed since the 1950s, Fretton's site was previously occupied by a hospital, and is bounded to the east and south by canals, and to the north and west by busy main roads. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Working alongside masterplanning architects Geurst and Schulze, who are designing four perimeter The boundary of a system or network, which defines the inside and outside. It is typically determined by firewalls and addresses. See DMZ. buildings, Fretton is responsible for five buildings that coil around a new public square at the centre of the plot, before emerging on the more prominent south-east corner. The stripped rational aesthetic of the buildings has been described by the architect as 'stately', and will incorporate a fine grey Danish brick, punctuated with a regular pattern of large openings with aluminium sliding doors and balconies, or windows with solid spandrel spandrel Roughly triangular area on either side of an arch, bounded by a line running horizontally through its apex, a line rising vertically from the springing of the arch, and the exterior curve of the arch. panels beneath. Providing over 25 000sqm of accommodation, this is by far Fretton's largest project to date, with two phases due for completion in 2007 and 2010 (A5, A6, D1 and C1, C2 respectively). R. G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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