Ana Pereira Roders For over twenty years, I have worked towards bridging heritage and sustainability. My team and I have written about it, taught it, advised on it, served on panels, and chaired international debates. I hoped — with the patience (I do not have but) academia teaches — that ideas, evidence, and dialogue would eventually shape the world for the better, and that the gap between research and decision-making would, in time, close. But somewhere along the way, I began to question...

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 sustainability...

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 spraken, is dit een...