Rietveld Architects New York

Slide 18 for the Future 400 talk in New York

Our Dutch projects are mostly mixed-use work/living with
Independent living for the Elderly
30% Social rent @ $1000/month
40% Middle rent @$1400/month
30% Free market @ Market rent

Slide 17 of the Future 400 talk:
Intensifying the city is a long term solution
In Hell’s Kitchen we live in a 15 minute city
The Dutch do not understand that it takes me16 minutes, biking to my parking spot.
The Empire State Building has Zero Parking

Notes from slide 16 for the Future 400 talk.

What NY could learn from NL:

Owners grouped together (Crazy)
FAR assigned
Tower location, height, size and distances
30% business 70% residential
30% Social housing, 40% Affordable rent, 30% Market rate
Welstand
Baseline from which to negotiate

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Slide 14 of the Future 400 talk:
Listed II* on Eaton square in London
Period rooms (Stijlkamers)
Anything new had to be modern
All the hardware is from PE Guerin New York since 1857
All the leatherwork is from Ellermeijer in Amsterdam
Woodworking company exists since 1200’s

Notes on slide 13 for the Future 400:
We designed the future Factory/ Museum of Spyker Cars
Custom aluminum work with Coventry Prototype Panels
They also made the Heatherwick extrusion.
Custom leather work with Ellermeijer

Notes for slide #12 of the Future 400 lecture:
Affordable housing
9 pocket parks or Hofjes in Dutch
Car parking under the raised street level
High density at 150 units/HA (60 units/AC)
Sniffen Court E36 street

Slide 11 notes: Thinnest double glass structural façade
World record at 53mm for 13m span
With Ulrich Knaack, Octatube, Delft University and InHolland Kevlar Lab

Slide 10: 360 degrees view, except the Standard Hotel
Projecting on the façade as the free view

Ulrich Knaack at Delft University got us a working prototype
Leather floor walls and ceiling by Ellermeijer in Amsterdam
Young graffity artists Telmo en Miel
Marcel Wanders one off Hockney carpet

Slide 9: Part of the First phase on Cruquius Island development in Amsterdam
Developer and Investor Amvest headquarters and Two housing blocks

Our first Nature inclusive project
Elevator as room
Open escape stairs
Tripple Scissor Stair
Passive climate facade
Amvest was awarded the NEPROM 2024

Slide 8: The Joker smashed our favorite model unexpectedly
Not in the script

Nasa started 3D printing in 2010
Margeret’s dad was a Rocket Scientist
3D pinting since 2012
First industrial machine $150,000
Now better result for a few thousand dollars

Slide 7: Colaborate with Dutch firms

OZ Architects for the large projects

Allard Architecture for the medium projects

Artisan Architects for the smaller projects

Slide 6: Always walk to work
Rietveld Architects started in the Empire State Building
After 9-11 we moved to the Film Center building
During Covid we moved to the Piano Factory
Some Dutch will recognize the Little-C architecture

Slide 5: First project as Rietveld Architects
Ever since our projects are 50% NY and 50% NL
No foundation. The building is resting on top of the existing construction
Built on top of a recessed highway through the The Hague City Center
Connecting two neighborhoods separated by a sunken highway

Page 4: The Modernist

I joined Richard Meier as project architect for the Cityhall and Library in the Hague
For 8.5 years I travelled up and down to NL
This year 30 years old
We are still doing aftercare. Redesigned the Council Chamber and currenty the all new Press Room is under construction

Slide 3: The Icon
Margaret worked for years on the Louvre project in Paris
I came over for the weekends
Seven day workweek. No computers
In New York werkte Margaret aan Steven Job’s apartment in the San Remo
In ‘95 IM Pei asked us to help with the design process for the extension of the Zeughaus

The Mentor
Started in Amsterdam working for Herman Hertzberger in the70’s and 80’s
Aldo van Eyck, Jan Rietveld, Piet Blom
Towards the end, Margaret was there too
Hertzberger was our mentor
At 93 he is still our mentor. We see each other every year at least once. Either in Amsterdam or in New York

This is the first slide of our presentation at the FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York, endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history.

Pool house

Back to sketches. All these are handsketches , but with a digital pen on a Wacom screen.

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Thanks to Art Demonte this astronaut suit really seems to float..... 13

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Photos by Bellavia ..... 11

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Detail. Photos by Bellavia ..... 10

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Guest office. Photos by Bellavia ..... 9

"Architects are only as good as their clients". So many things that were done for the first time by all, but Ash Suri never flinched. Photos by Bellavia ..... 8

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Sculptural cut steel ceiling, wall and floor panels It looks free form, but no panel is double curved. Photos by Bellavia ..... 7

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Lipstick Red leather floors walls and ceiling. Every panel is unique. Fantastic custom work by Leo Ellermeijer from Amsterdam. The chessboard was too late, so we put out own in. Photos by Bellavia ..... 6

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Lipstick Red leather floors walls and ceiling. Every panel is unique. Fantastic custom work by Leo Ellermeijer from Amsterdam . Photos by Bellavia ..... 5

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Until now not publicabele. Photos by Bellavia ..... 4

"Architects are only as good as their clients". Spectacular mural by Adam Cvijanovic on Tyveck sheeting, so it is transportable ..... 3