Netherlands - The Skyscraper Center

04 April 2022

State of Tall Timber 2022

Daniel Safarik, Jacob Elbrecht & William Miranda, CTBUH

The past few years have seen tremendous interest in the development of mass timber buildings of increasing height, in urban settings, many of which are...

15 December 2021

Megacities vs. Urban Sprawl; Densifying vs. Social Distancing

Astrid Piber, UNStudio

Decentralization and the “15-minute city” are ideas that are currently being put forward to tackle urban challenges, but how will these issues be tackled in...

30 October 2017

Rethinking CTBUH Height Criteria In the Context of Tall Timber

Robert M. Foster, University of Queensland; Michael H. Ramage, University of Cambridge; Thomas Reynolds, The University of Edinburgh

Recent developments in the design and construction of progressively taller buildings using engineered timber as a structural material raise important questions about the language that...

01 February 2017

Reaching for the Sky: The Determinants of Tall Office Development in Global Gateway Cities

Richard Barkham & Dennis Schoenmaker, CBRE Global Research; Michiel Daams, University of Groningen

There are numerous hypotheses about the social and economic processes that lead to the development of skyscrapers, but empirical evidence is scarce. In this article,...

17 October 2016

Tall Buildings and Polycentricity

Greg Yager, Carolien Gehrels & Maren Striker, Arcadis / CallisonRTKL

Dwindling land reserves, water and food shortages, climate change, diminishing air quality, environmental degradation – these are all among the intractable challenges we face in...

17 October 2016

What’s Next?: How Do We Make Vertical Urban Design?

Winy Mass, MVRDV

It seems sometimes as if the further away from the ground we rise, the more architectonic and less urban our buildings become. Skyscrapers have always...

24 February 2015

Taming Tall Buildings’ “Autistic” Tendencies

Kees Christiaanse, KCAP Rotterdam

The CTBUH is actively expanding the “Urban Habitat” portion of its mission, which calls for tall buildings to be optimally integrated into human-scaled urban environments....

18 February 2015

Frankfurt and Rotterdam: Skylines as Embodiment of a Global City

Nebojša Čamprag, Technical University of Darmstadt

In contrast to US cities, which allowed construction of skyscrapers in central urban areas, the post-World War II development of western Europe generally involved new...

16 September 2014

Ultra Light Weight Solutions for Sustainable Urban Densification

Maurice Hermens, Michiel Visscher & John Kraus, Royal HaskoningDHV

This paper shows, through the realized case project “De Karel Doorman” in Rotterdam, how ultra lightweight solutions for apartments and other building types can be...

01 June 2013

The Past, Present and Future of the European Skyscraper

CTBUH Research

There are currently 109 skyscrapers over 150 meters in Europe. This number is set to jump to 161 by the end of 2015, meaning that...

01 May 2012

Developing Rotterdam’s Skyline

Frank van der Hoeven & Steff en Nijhuis, Delft University of Technology

The planning and construction of tall buildings is often controversial, polarizing the public on architecture and urban life. In many cases the emotional discourse focuses...

11 May 2011

So You Want a Tall Building?

John Worthington, DEGW

Having devised tall building strategies for Rotterdam, Dublin and London, he is the kind of guy who is called in as cities start to think...

01 November 2010

Greening Modernism: Westraven Tower

Jeroen Hendriks, Cepezed Architects

The Westraven Office Complex in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is a combination of a renovated existing building and a new extension for the use of several...

01 August 2009

Shaping the High-rise Framework: Tall Buildings Policies and Zoning

Jan Klerks, CTBUH

This research learned that recommended practices would be those systems that promote and professionally assess ambitions, while at the same time preventing pitfalls by high-rise...

03 March 2008

Building cost and eco-cost aspects of tall buildings

Peter de Jong & Hans Wamelink, Delft University of Technology

The objective was to obtain a detailed estimate of the building costs of high rise office buildings in the initiative and early design phases, while...

03 March 2008

Tall Buildings in the Netherlands: Constraints to Innovation

Frits Scheublin, Royal BAM Groep

The Netherlands is a densely populated country with 16 million inhabitants. About 50% of the population lives and works in an area about as large...

16 October 2005

Amsterdam’s Zuidas: A New Urban Landscape

Pi di Bruijn, de Architekten Cie

Globalization and rising mobility are causing significant changes of emphasis in the Dutch urban landscape. The individual cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht...

10 October 2004

High-Rise Buildings in the Netherlands: Hybrid Structures and Precast Concrete

J.N.J.A. Vambersky

The emergence of new building materials and new construction technologies has changed the face of the building industry. Structural steel, reinforced and precast concrete are...

10 October 2004

Highrise – Lowland

Pi de Bruijn, de Architekten Cie

In order to discover the origins of the almost emotional resistance to high-rise construction and why attitudes have changed, we shall first examine the physical...

10 October 2004

Usage of Cold Bent Glass Panes as an Approximation for Doublecurved Surfaces

Karel Vollers, Delft University of Technology

The article focuses on geometric details of a 150 m high twisted tower, the built facade prototype and its general application, as well as material...

20 October 2003

Strategies for Tall Buildings in the Netherlands

George Ang, Government Building Agency; Matt Prins, Delft University of Technology

Tall buildings are scarce in the Netherlands, only 20 of the 50 highest buildings were constructed in or after 2000. The highest building is 151...