NEWS

Four of our projects have completed on site this year, three in the Netherlands - Solid 11, Andreas Ensemble, De
Prinsendam – and Tietgens Ærgelse in Denmark.
Phase 2 of Andreas Ensemble, a new residential project of 166 apartments in Amsterdam West, has been completed and is shortlisted for a Brick Award 2011

“Solid 11” in Constantijn Huygensstraat, Amsterdam, has received an NAi award in recognition of being listed in the official architecture archive of the Dutch Architecture Institute. The building was reviewed by Ellis Woodman in Building Design magazine (29th September).

De Prinsendam is on a final shortlist of ten residential projects for the Nieuwbouwprijs, awarded by the Amsterdam Development Corporation. From over 65 projects
submitted for the prize, a shortlist of twenty projects was selected based on the votes of the residents of the
completed projects, an independent jury then chose ten projects from this list to go through to the final round.
The public will vote for the winner, which will be announced in October. Tony Fretton will be interviewed by the
Dutch newspaper, Het Parool, on Friday 30th September.

Tietgens Ærgelse was reviewed by Kieran Long in Form magazine, who said “…the starting point is not form,
but context, which is then altered and adjusted according to other concerns to do with use, economics,
materials and light. This process is always rooted in an intuitive idea of familiarity and tradition… Tietgens
Ærgelse is a modern building that all but culminates the logic of a piece of Copenhagen with a building that is
not a full stop, but a comma; it leaves the door open for future developments, while being rooted in what's
already there."

Finally, Tony Fretton is giving a number of international lectures. In October he will lecture at the Gallery of
Architecture in Katowice, Poland and at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA. In November and December he lectures at the Technische Universitat Munchen, and in Austria at the House of Architecture in
Graz and the Architktur Forum Ostschweiz in St Gallen.
A book of the complete works of Tony Fretton Architects, provisionally entitled “Buildings and their Territories”
will be published by Birkhauser in 2012.