Profile

Design Philosophy

The archi­tec­tural phi­los­o­phy of Erick van Egeraat strikes a vision­ary bal­ance between analy­sis, con­text and beauty. He envis­ages an archi­tec­tural future in which the cur­rently pre­vail­ing reduc­tive avant-​garde phi­los­o­phy is super­seded by a new par­a­digm of com­plex­ity and rich­ness. Accord­ing to Erick van Egeraat, any project should be con­nected to and even blend into the net­work and iden­tity of its loca­tion. There­fore, great atten­tion to the cul­tural and his­toric makeup of the site is required for a project to become a nat­ural part of its sur­round­ings. This empha­sis on con­text stems from Erick van Egeraats aim to main­tain, accen­tu­ate and com­ple­ment the unique­ness of each indi­vid­ual loca­tion. With­out sur­ren­der­ing to nos­tal­gia or revival, he finds famil­iar­ity in the loca­tion itself, not in his own port­fo­lio or by way of a method­i­cal or even generic approach.

My work relates to cul­tural and his­toric con­texts as a source of mean­ing. I aim to cre­ate a sen­sual and intu­itive archi­tec­ture that cor­re­sponds to a nat­ural lan­guage while evok­ing new, emerg­ing sensations.

While Erick van Egeraat for­mu­lates unique archi­tec­tural solu­tions for each indi­vid­ual project, his basic prin­ci­ples remain flex­i­bil­ity, sen­si­bil­ity and sus­tain­abil­ity at social, eco­nomic and envi­ron­men­tal level.

Expertise & Services

Design Erick van Egeraat works on projects rang­ing from entirely new build­ings and Mas­ter­plans to inter­ven­tions within his­toric struc­tures. Com­mon denom­i­na­tor in this diverse port­fo­lio is our exper­tise which lies in strik­ing vision­ary bal­ances between the intended iden­tity, level of ambi­tion and over­all qual­ity of the projects. Known for for­mu­lat­ing unique archi­tec­tural solu­tions, Erick van Egeraat cre­ates iconic iden­ti­ties which opti­mize prop­erty val­ues while acknowl­edg­ing the social, emo­tional and intel­lec­tual impacts on both their envi­ron­ment and users.

We pro­vide both pub­lic and pri­vate clients with archi­tec­tural and mas­ter­plan­ning ser­vices nte­rior and prod­uct design. Design Erick van Egeraat is strongly com­mit­ted to meet­ing the aspi­ra­tions of our clients and deliv­er­ing the promise. In order to achieve this, our ser­vices are exe­cuted accord­ing to the high­est RIBA and West­ern Euro­pean stan­dards. With offices in 5 and projects in more than 10 coun­tries, we work in com­pli­ance with local leg­is­la­tion and codes. Thor­ough risk assess­ments and sup­port for plan­ning per­mit appli­ca­tions are an inte­gral part of the design process and jus­ti­fied in con­junc­tion with the appro­pri­ate local authorities.

Ser­vices offered by Design Erick van Egeraat include:

  • Archi­tec­tural, inte­rior and prod­uct design
  • Mas­ter­plan­ning, includ­ing guide­lines, plan­ning, deliv­ery and imple­men­ta­tion
  • Engi­neer­ing
  • Tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tion
  • Sup­port for plan­ning per­mit appli­ca­tions
  • Con­struc­tion and site management

Sustainability

At present, the gen­eral con­cept of sus­tain­abil­ity in archi­tec­ture and the build­ing indus­try is largely depen­dent on an ever-​evolving under­stand­ing of typol­ogy, tech­nol­ogy and the use of mate­ri­als. Erick van Egeraats broader vision on sus­tain­abil­ity adds to this con­cept the aim to cre­ate and main­tain archi­tec­ture with a time­less value. This vision man­i­fests itself in build­ings with a strong char­ac­ter that receive broad sup­port and offer a high level of flex­i­bil­ity in use. By this def­i­n­i­tion, the designs of Erick van Egeraat are built to last a mul­ti­tude of the usual 30 – 50 year lifes­pan, thus result­ing in a sig­nif­i­cantly lower social, eco­nomic and envi­ron­men­tal bur­den. More­over, a high level of sus­tain­abil­ity will at the longer term offer con­sid­er­able com­mer­cial benefits.

The con­stantly improv­ing tech­niques and mate­ri­als that make it pos­si­ble to lower, or even neu­tral­ize, the use of energy and the level of car­bon emis­sion of a build­ing should nat­u­rally be applied gen­er­ously in any project with a sus­tain­able objec­tive. How­ever, Erick van Egeraat firmly believes that such solu­tions only truly add value for the user, the pub­lic and the city as a whole if they are fully inte­grated in the sum of ambi­tions and require­ments of a project. Fac­tors like den­sity, spa­tial qual­ity, com­pact­ness, mixed-​use and acces­si­bil­ity may be less quan­tifi­ably Green, but they do com­pose a seri­ous impact on the sus­tain­able char­ac­ter of a build­ing. As such, they con­sid­er­ably expand the cur­rent per­cep­tion of Green Architecture.

To imple­ment this ambi­tious view on sus­tain­abil­ity into projects, a team of BREEAM trained experts mon­i­tor all run­ning projects. The results of stud­ies, mas­ter plans and projects under con­struc­tion are well illus­trated by the Sus­tain­able Office Build­ing study for the Dutch rijks­bouwmeester. Another exam­ple is the mixed use Colum­buskwartier project planned for con­struc­tion in Almere. Cur­rently the team per­forms design works on a zero emis­sion office build­ing in the Oos­t­er­dok Island mas­ter­plan next to Ams­ter­dam Cen­tral Sta­tion, and on a sus­tain­able 5 mln m2 mas­ter­plan in Moscow, Russia.

Awards

2015
Invictus Award
Winner, Best Interior
2015
World Superyacht Awards
Winner, Displacement Motor Yacht of 500GT to 1,299GT
2015
A + Popular Choice Award
Winner, Architecture + Light
2015
Darc Award
Winner Third prize, Best Exterior Scheme – High budget
2015
PLDC Award
Winner, Best New Project
2014
Media Architecture Biennale Award
Winner, Best Animated Architecture
2014
International Highrise Award
Nomination
2014
Drents Architecture prize
Nomination
2014
Danish Lighting Award
Nomination
2013
European Property Awards
Winner, Best high rise Architecture in Russia
2013
'Green Construction, Technologies and Architecture' Award
Winner, Gated Estate with High Environmental and Energy Efficiency
2012
Dutch Design Award
Winner, Best Interior
2012
Best Building Award
Winner, Best Building Siberia
2012
Golden Capital Award
Winner, Grand Prix Siberia
2012
Golden Pyramid Award
Nomination
2012
Living Daylight Award
Honourable mention
2011
Made in Future Award
Winner, Silver Diploma Siberia
2010
Emporis Award
Winner, Best Skyscraper
2010
Commercial Real Estate Award
Winner, Best Multi-functional Development
2010
'Lieven de Key' Medal
Nomination
2010
Worldwide Brick Award
Nomination
2009
Best Stair Award
Winner, Best Stair of the Year
2009
Hadrian Awards
Winner
2009
International Academy of Architecture (IAA) Award
Nomination, Annual Prize
2009
US Award
Winner Second prize, category: Workplace, Quality and Innovation
2007
Rietveld Award
Winner
2007
RIBA Award
Winner, North East Region
2007
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Renaissance Award
Winner, category: Tourism and Leisure
2007
Architecture Prize 'Achterhoek'
Nomination
2006
Award 'Scholenbouwprijs'
Winner
2006
'For Budapest' Award
Winner
2006
'Reitter Ferenc' Prize
Winner
2006
Award 'Ruimtelijke Kwaliteitsprijs'
Nomination, Zuid-Holland
2006
European Plaster Award
Nomination
2005
Best Architectural Project Award in Surgut
Winner
2005
Life in Architecture Award
Winner, Best building in Warsaw 2004-2005
2005
Dutch Ceramics Award
Nomination, in co-operation with artist Babs Haenen
2004
Breda Architectuur Prijs
Winner, Audience Award
2004
Copenhagen Award
Winner, Best City Picture
2004
MIPIM Future Projects Award
Nomination
2004
Golden Pyramid Award
Nomination
2004
CEE Real Estate Quality Awards
Nomination
2002
Dutch Construction Award
Nomination
2002
Award 'Nationale Staalprijs'
Nomination
2002
Award 'Budapest Nívó Díja'
Nomination
2002
World Architecture Awards
Nomination
1999
National Restoration Award Hungary
Winner
1999
MIPIM Awards
Nomination
1994
BDA Award 'Guter Bauten'
Winner, as partner of Mecanoo
1994
'Hugo Häring' Prize
Winner, as partner of Mecanoo
1994
'Jhr. Victor de Steurspenning' Award
Winner, as partner of Mecanoo
1990
‘Nieuwe Maaskant' Prize
Winner, Urban Design
1987
'Maaskant' Prize for Young Architects
Winner, as partner of Mecanoo
1985
Biënnale for Young Dutch Architects, Amsterdam
Winner, as partner of Mecanoo