23Nov

The film production ‘La Holandesa’ (director Marleen Jonkman, producer Smarthouse Films, Amsterdam) is shooting in Chile at the moment. The film is about a woman (played by Rifka Lodeizen) who has to come to terms with the fact that she cannot have children. It is a road movie that…

23Nov

Promising news about our reconversion project for the Batik Corporation Indonesia (Gedung Gabungan Koperasi Batik Indonesia or GKBI) in Semarang. The Oen Semarang Foundation (OSF) of which Paul de Vroom is the representative architect has made important progress. For years now Jenny Megaradjasa, the moving spirit behind the OSF,…

23Nov

Where is the legacy of ‘Opa de Vroom’? The jack-of-all-trades Pieter de Vroom Senior was an architect-contractor in the colonial city of Medan (Sumatra-Indonesia) during the first half of the 20th century, until the 2nd World War. He happened to be my grandfather (opa) and the person that persuaded…

04Nov

Moscow is covered in snow, but that doesn’t slow down the pace of building in this freezing city. At the moment the construction of the two apartment towers ‘Holland House” is in full swing. The underground parking is already nearing completion and the apartment floors are added at incredible…

03Nov

Last November 2th Paul de Vroom and his former partner of DKV architecten had the pleasure of hosting a group of around 95 professors and students in architecture from the Catholic University of Louvain in the Rotterdam neighborhood Afrikaanderwijk. The group visited Rotterdam during several days for an architectural…

15Oct

Being busy working on a nice series of challenging projects we forgot to mention the most important news fact concerning Paul de Vroom architecten. Already in the summer of 2014 Paul de Vroom architecten and Studio Sputnik started a collaboration that instantaneously proved to be a match made in…

30Oct

Closed Competition for 860 apartments, 1178 m2 of commercial space and parking for 956 cars. Client: PIK-group, Moscow. In collaboration with Sputnik. 2nd Place

30Sep
24Sep

Lecture in Sofia

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The University of Architecture in Sofia (UACEG) invited Paul de Vroom to participate in the new posgraduate master program ‘Architecture Theory and Criticism 2014-2015’. He will lecture in 2015.

10Aug

Oblast Forum

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At the invitation of the Guild of Property Managers and Developers Paul de Vroom took part in the Moscow Oblast Forum (6-7-8 of August 2014). He participated in two discussions on August 6th and 7th. Other participants were, amongst others, Mikhail Men, Minister for Construction, Housing and Utilities of…