zondag 30 november 2025

First house in Almere

This house was the first inhabited house in Almere 50 years ago.
Efforts were made to establish a museum house as a memorial to this event, and here we see the initiator, Ans van Berkum, and the mayor, Hein van der Loo, in the house during yesterday's official opening.
A great deal of attention has been paid to the interior design from 1975/1976.
I was also invited to the opening because at the time I was working for architect Joop van Stigt, who had designed these homes and I had drawn up all the plans.
It was a nice reunion.
And on this wall in the living room, there are some old drawings I made and some photos of Joop v Stigt and, to my surprise, one of myself, but that one was only four weeks old... of work 50 years ago.
(Header yes, the holidays are coming up again.)



 

7 opmerkingen:

  1. Congratulations! You did the plans. It must have been a really nice event.

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  2. How nice that you were there for the event. It all looks so 70s - in a good way.

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  3. Great piece of history, both for the city and for you.

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  4. That's great, Greetings. Beautiful photos.

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  5. Een en al herkenning wat betreft het interieur. Heel bijzonder!

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  6. Fifty years ago does not seem all that long ago. I remember the 1970s well, but then I'm an old geezer.

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