Two houses in van der venne park

I think Alvaro Siza's work is well-known to be described as 'Critical Regionalism'. 

I really like his Two Houses in van der venne park. Two hundred housing units originally occupying this triangular site were demolished to make way for underground parking facilities and a local park. The two warden’s residences are combined with a shop and a pedestrian entrance. The houses constitute a respectful tribute to Dutch architecture in what had hitherto been regarded as an impossible marriage of Amsterdam School and Nieuwe Bouwen: brick, all but blankwalled facades, round forms and vertical accentuations in a harmonious interplay with rendering, large areas of glass, terraces and horizontal and rectangular forms.His special shape and function always attract me.





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