Shopping Mall Design | Retail Park | Betty Blue | Roermond | Netherlands | NIO Architecten

As unambiguous as this shopping machine is lying here on its doorstep, waiting for visitors, as ambiguous it is in relation to its shape and colour, it is sometimes straight and other times round, from the one side purple and from the other side blue. In the shelter of this enormous lifted and stretched drop of water, an inner square with almost exotic conditions has been shaped. It is as if a whole life of its own has been able to develop itself inside this inner space, in which façade openings, bill boards, lampposts, wastebaskets, bicycle sheds and road markings have gone through a joint and balanced growth. As if they have been able to prepare themselves in peace for years, for the arrival of hundreds of thousands of visitors and their cars, ready to host and not being interested in anything else but to treat their guests to that one, exclusive experience.........more

Aquarians, 22 bridges | NIO architecten

• Project Name: The Aquarians, 22 bridges
• Client: municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch
• Project Type: Civil works
• Design Team: Joan Almekinders, Maurice Nio, Alexander Paschaloudis
• Contractor/s: Ippel, Nieuwendijk, NL
• Date of commencement of project: 2004
• Date of completion of project: 2007
• Location of site: De Watertuinen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Holland
• Site Area: 90.000 sq. m.
• Built-up Area: appr. 1300 sq. m.
• Cost of Construction/Execution: € 2626000

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Touch of evil-Inter-area tunnel in Pijnacker,Netherlands | NIO architecten

• Project Name: Touch of evil, Interarea tunnel in Pijnacker
• Client: Municipality Pijnacker-Nootdorp
• Project Type: Infrastructure
• Design Team: Joan Almekinders, Samir Bantal, Hans Larsen, Enrique Moya-Angeler, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Tine Silvester-Iversen
• Contractor/s: Dura Vermeer (Dubbers-Malden)
• Date of commencement of project: 2002
• Date of completion of project: 2004
• Location of site: VINEX location Tolhek, Pijnacker, Holland
• Site Area: 2000 sq. mt.
• Built-up Area: 2000 sq. mt.
• Cost of Construction/Execution: € 3.600.000 (10% spent on architectonical finishing)

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Bus Station-Hoofddorp-The Netherlands

The world's biggest structure built entirely from synthetic materials: factory-cut polystyrene foam with a polyester skin. It is the terminus of several bus routes in Hoofddorp, forming an oval roundabout in front of the edge-of-town hospital.