08/01/2019
FREEM open architecture
ARCHITECTURE, CITY & LANDSCAPE
Creating designs for livable, attractive places in an open, collaborative process
Current projects and liaisons:
'City for All' programme in 8 cities in Afghanistan with UN-Habitat.
'Feeding the City' for the International New Town Institute
Knowledge exchange and education program on food security and city planning in metropolitan area Nairobi, Kenya towards the Floriade Worldexpo on horticulture in 2022 organised by the City Almere.
'Making Cities Together' for Placemak
08/01/2019
31/10/2017
Urban October....! World Cities Day! Celebrating innovative approaches in Urban development.
UN-HABITAT's Urban Planning and Design Branch is working with international experts to support through design and planning sustainable urban growth.
Great to work with the best landscape and urban experts and with the local
URBAN LABS - GAZA Throughout 2016, UN-Habitat together with the Netherlands Creative Industries, launched five Urban Planing and Design projects in Tacloban, Philippines; Gaza...
21/09/2017
Urban labs 'the movie' about urban design in challenging urban environments shown at the film festival.
UN-HABITAT
Support this urban community project in Nairobi! Bricks out of recycled waste - turn streets around in colourful places! Share the project and or become part of it by supporting the Indiegogo campaign.
Dandora Transformation League Making Cities Together Placemakers Project for Public Spaces Urbego Ifhp CityLab I Like Architecture AJ+ Archinect Land+Civilization Compositions BNA Branchevereniging Nederlandse Architectenbureaus NAI Rotterdam Rebar Associates
14/04/2017
Do you want to become a placemaker? Join us for the campus Urban Thinkers Campus 'Making Cities Together' in Nairobi in May!
Making Cities Together - Urban Thinkers Campus Please join and contribute to the Urban Thinkers Campus “MAKING CITIES TOGETHER: The City We Need, through Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Public Spaces”…
10/03/2017
Help us shaping the New Urban Agenda... focusing on the implementation of public spaces through placemaking.
This will be an interactive conference with on site Living Labs, Key Note Dialogues and the opening of the Modelstraat of Urban Thinkers Campus 'Making Cities Together'.
Registration OPEN for the Making Cities Together and International New Town Institute Campus, to be held from 3-4 May 2017 in Nairobi UN-HABITAT. For more information and registration please visit: http://ow.ly/T4rf309LLgQ
14/02/2017
Check the database of over 200 New Town Plans in Africa!
Africa is no longer the rural continent many people think it is. On the contrary: it is the fastest urbanizing continent in the world. Chinese, Korean, Singaporean firms, American, English and Swiss designers are engaged in building New Towns. But where are the African planners and designers? And where is the first New Town that is truly inclusive, providing for the majority of the African population?
International New Town Institute
http://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article1176
Newsletter February 2017 - INTI - International New Town Institute > 200+ New Towns in Africa added to the INTI database! Africa is no longer the rural continent many people think it is. On the contrary: it is (...)
23/01/2017
Watch now!
Great documentary film about our urban plans for Gaza.
https://vimeo.com/album/4364421/video/199967704
UN-HABITAT Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Media HQ Cityförster LOLA landscape architects Peter Vanden Abeele
URBAN LABS -GAZA- FINAL In 2016 the Netherlands Creative Fund joined hands with UN Habitat Urban Labs. In 5 countries on 4 continents groups of architects, planners and urbanists analyzed…
23/01/2017
FREEM is happy to announce our collaboration with . Looking forward to collaborate on future sustainable developments!
Diana Brandes-van Dorresteijn Raymond Brandes
http://freem.eu/wordpress/?p=2051
FREEM open architecture » Partnership DevelopmentConnect 19-01-17 FREEM is happy to announce our partnership with DevelopmentConnect. Yesterday, we signed our Memorandum of Understanding to work even more together in the future. DevelopmentConnect operates in the field of sustainable development globally. Naomi (FREEM) will bring in her expertise in analy...
05/01/2017
Architectural Association of Kenya AAK Architects Chapter Awards of Excellence for architecture and landscape in Kenya...with Kenyan Architecture expert Janfrans van der Eerden as a member of the Jury.
Among others prices for best landscaping goes to Uhuru Kenyatta way, best educational project to Breaburn garden estate and best cultural project to Don Bosco in Upper Hill... check it out!
https://issuu.com/archidatum/docs/the_architect_issue_10__2016/26
The Architect Issue 10, 2016 The Architect Magazine is an initiative of the AAK Architects' Chapter.
20/09/2016
Experiences and outcomes of our project in Gaza will be shared Pakhuis De Zwijger Amsterdam UN-HABITAT
https://dezwijger.nl/programma/un-habitat-urban-labs
New Urban Agenda #2: UN Habitat Urban Labs Urban Challenges in Ghana, Mexico, Philipines, Palestine and Myanmar.
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