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Ard de Vries, MArch.

Master of Building design

Clients

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Boijmans van Beuningen

Stichting Droom & Daad

The Barbican

Gemeente Groningen

Gemeente Utrecht

Natuurmonumenten

Staatsbosbeheer

Stichting Twickel

Artis Amsterdam

BAM Wonen

Dura Vermeer

Private clients

Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam

Zorgcirkel Waterland

Archiweek Brussel

IABR 

Le Clercq projectontwikkeling

Urban fabric development

Projects

2024

Unravel 

The Barbican - exhibition

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

[publication – The Gaurdian]

[publication – The Times]

2023

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen at Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum - exhibition

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2023 10 best exhibition  – Volkskrant

[publication – Volkskrant]

[publication – Parool]

New horizons, Amsterdam

Centraal museum - exhibition

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2022

Pieter Baan centrum, Utrecht

Dura Vermeer

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke 

2021

House for Writers, Rotterdam

Stichting Droom en Daad, Rotterdam

Renovation of the Veerhuis

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2021

Housing, Wormer

Urban Fabric development

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2021

Housing, Estate Dieren

Stichting Twickel & 

Le Clercq projectontwikkeling

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke & Roderik Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen

2021

Kunstberg, Brussel

Archiweek

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2020

Nest, Den Haag

i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2019

From church to square,

competition for a theater - library building in Son & Breughel i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2019

Waterloopbos,

entrance building for Natuurmonumenten, competition won, i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke & DS landschapsarchitecten

2019

Artis, 

monkey house, Amsterdam, 

competition lost i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

2018

Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam, 

research renovation and extension Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam i.o.v. Mevrouw Meijer en Montessori Scholen Gemeenschap Amsterdam i.c.w.  Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke

 

2018

Exhibition Pure Rubens,

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Collaboration of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and The Prado Museum. 

[Publication – Divisare]

[Publication – Volkskrant] ★★★★★

[Publication – Klara]

[Publication – NRC]

[Publication – ArchitectuurNL]

2018

University Hasselt,

redevelopment of a beguinage to an University in Belgium, Open Oproep 34

i.c.w. Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke, commissioned by the Province Limburg, status: selected, ended 2nd place.
[Publication – architectenweb]

2017 – present

De Kunstwerf,

collective building for dance- and theater companies  

i.c.w. Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke, i.o.v. Gemeente Groningen.

Price

Abe Bonnemaprijs 2023  

Architecten web award 2023 

Best Building 2023 BNA

Nomination

Abe Bonnemaprijs 2022 Young

NPR Gulden Feniks

Dutch Design Award

Groninger Architecture price - second

Publication

Yearbook of dutch Architecture 2022 /2023

De Volkskrant

Archined

ICON

Casabella

Abitare

Architectural Record
Oase

Divisare

Area

FD

De Architect

De Volkskrant

De Architect

De Architect
Architectenweb

2017 – present

Cultural building Leidsche Rijn,

Utrecht, Atlas of Spaces, , i.c.w. Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke commissioned by Municipality Utrecht. Status: ongoing
[Publication – Architectenweb]

2016

Estate Drenthe,

Private estate, Drenthe, 

2016

Elderly house, Monnickendam, 

Zorgcirkel Waterland

i.c.w.  Piet Oudolf

2016

Exhibition Maatwerk/ Massarbeit, 

Frankfurt and VAI Belgium

Curators Marius Grootveld en Jantje Engels

[Publication – Volkskrant]

2011-

Gebouw Post,

city post , Zwolle, designfase SO / VO / DO

i.c.w.  de Architecten Cie

2011-2016

Estate Valkenberg,

Private estate, Agelo, 

Honored with Abe Bonnema price 2016 for young architects

[Publication – Divisare]

[Publication – Volkskrant] ★★★★★

[Publication – Domus]

2010 -2011

Theater Decor,

Parade, Go Vote !, God in Frankrijk 

i.c.w.  Nørd architecten

Some publications

[Publication – Architecture in the Netherlands 2016 / 2017]

[Publication – Domus]

[Publication – Divisare]

[Publication – Archdaily]

[Publication – WA magazine]

[Publication – ArchitectuurNL]

[Publication – Gooood]

[Publication – Arqa]

[Publication – Archspace]

[Publication – Designboom]

[Publication – Archspace]

[Publication – Opumo]

[Publication – De Architect]

[Publication – Azine]

Work experience

2007 - 2014

Jo Coenen & co , Amsterdam

Architecture and Urbanism

 

2002 - 2007

Atelier of the Rijksbouwmeester, The Hague

(Chief Goverment architect )

2001

Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S,
Kopenhagen. 

Teaching & lectures

2017 - 2018

Teacher,  Academy of Architecture Amsterdam & Rotterdam.

 

2014 

Lectures: HNI Rotterdam, DAM Frankfurt, University of Wuppertal.

2021 - 

Lectures series:'Design by thinking of" 

Editiorial board

 

Prices & nominations

 

2023 

Abe Bonnemaprijs 2023  

BNA Best Building of the Year 2023
category stimulating environment

2022

Abe Bonnemaprijs 2022 Nomination 

voor jonge architecten prijs

- Donna van Milligen Bielke

2017

Abe Bonnemaprijs 2016

voor jonge architecten prijs

[publication – Parool]

[publication – Architectenweb]

[publication – Turbantia]

 

2004

Selection Archiprix 2005

‘Beyond good and evil’.  
Design for a Armymuseum in Amsterdam.
Department Architecture Interior,  
Christoph Grave & Mikkel van Gelderen  
With honour.  
Selection Archiprix 2005. 

[publication – archiprix.nl]

Education

1997 - 2004

Technische University Delft

MArch, Diploma Master of Architecture

2001

School of Architecture,The Royal Danish Academy of fine arts,  Copenhagen. Department 2 , Architecture, City and Building

2002 - 2004

Faculty of Philosophy,

University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

status; not finished

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