BLOG

Petition Text and List 2024 Petition Text 2026 (UK) The former Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment building complex in The Hague, SoZa, was designed by Herman Hertzberger in 1979, and was in use as a government building from 1990 to 2016. SoZa is internationally recognised as an icon of Structuralist architecture, with its visionary design already accounting for future uses. In a time when very few spoke of sustainability and circularity, this is a pioneering example of

Petitie Tekst en Lijst 2024 Petitie Tekst 2026 (NL) Het voormalige Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid in Den Haag, werd door bureau Herman Hertzberger in 1979 ontworpen, en is als overheidsgebouw van 1990 tot 2016 in gebruik geweest. Het is internationaal erkend als icoon van de Structuralistische architectuur, waarbij in zijn visionaire opzet al rekening is gehouden met toekomstige bestemmingen. In een tijd waarin enkelen over duurzaamheid en circulariteit sprak

Floortje Keijzer, de Architect NL Published: April 8, 2024 Original Nothing seems to stand in the way of demolishing the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment building anymore. Herman Hertzberger's colossal concrete structure is only 30 years old and must already make way for a new plan that yields more saleable square meters. The market determines the fate of this textbook example of Structuralism that deserves national monument status instead of the wrecking ball. Prote

Ana Pereira Roders Published: De Architect, March 25, 2026 Original Text People have rights. States have rights. Companies have rights. Even nature is increasingly being granted rights, with an international movement that is also growing in the Netherlands. Ana Pereira Roders asks herself: why don't buildings have rights? Because every minute, a building is demolished in Europe, despite the European Climate Law. Her conclusion: fundamental rights were never self-evident - the