Frits van Dongen (born 12 March 1946, in

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) is an architect from the Netherlands. He designed a canal-side municipal theatre for the city of Leeuwarden with his firm De Architecten Cie. The building he designed that is known as The Whale is in an area known as the Oostelijke Handelskade (Eastern Docklands area) that includes "some of The Netherlands' most cutting-edge housing developments including Piraeus, designed by Hans Kollhoff and

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, "Hoop, Liefde en Fortuin" (named after three windmills that used to dominate this area) by

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" and one of Jamie Oliver's "Fifteen" restaurants. R otterdam Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2005 winner

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and his architecture partner

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, both from East Germany, both worked in van Dongen's office.Piet Vollaar
Kempe and Thill dispel the myth
architectuur 9 November 2005 ArchiNed

Projects

*Delfts Blauw, Delft, The Netherlands, 1998Jingmin Zhou, Ian Colquhou
Urban housing forms
/ref> *Batavia - Entrepot - West 4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000 *The Whale, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000

Selected publications

* Frits van Dongen,

Ron van der Ende Ron van der Ende (born 1965) is a Dutch visual artist, who works as sculptor, installation artist, and video artist.Braden King. ''The factory set'', Frame Publishers, 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dongen, Frits van 1946 births Living people Dutch architects People from 's-Hertogenbosch Delft University of Technology alumni

Projects

Selected publications

See also

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