Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam, Amsterdam
New life for a monument
Historically an exchange is the meeting place of markets and people, goods and ideas, and that is how the renewed Diamond Exchange meets…
Renovation Climate Greenhouse Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
The eye-catcher of the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus was designed in the early 1990s by architectural studio ZJA, as a contemporary structure…
Freedom Museum, Groesbeek
Parachute in the landscape
Amid the green hills rises the impressive white dome of the new Freedom Museum in Groesbeek. The museum is shaped like a giant parachute…
Shaded Dome
The Shaded Dome concept
When approaching a Shaded Dome one might wonder: is this a tent or a building? Entering and studying it clarifies that the most correct…
Dutch Pavilion, Seville
When in 1990 Moshé Zwarts and Rein Jansma learned they had won the competition to do the design for the Dutch Pavilion at the 1992 World…
Docking the Amsterdam
Sunken VOC ship recovered in building
In 1749 the Dutch VOC ship Amsterdam sank at Hastings, England. Almost three centuries later, the plan is conceived to salvage the wreck…
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
A restoration and a new look
When the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam decided to restore the seventeenth-century house to its original state and enable it to offer…
Stedelijk Museum CS
Temporary museum in the former TPG building
The architects ZJA are responsible for renovating the second and third storeys of the former TPG building into Stedelijk Museum CS. The aim…
AMFORA, Amsterdam
A visionary plan
Like all cities, Amsterdam faces increasingly limited space to accommodate more and more people who want to live, work and spend their…
Dutch Pavilion world expo, Osaka
Not a building but a place In the summer of 2025 the World Expo will take place on an artificial island off the coast of the Japanese city…
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
The 'Joods Historisch Museum' (Jewish historical museum) invited the architects ZJA to participate in a design competion. The theme of the…
Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam
Saving the old botanical garden
The glasshouse for the Amsterdam botanical garden, dating from 1993, is one of the earliest significant projects the architectural studio…