Arch. Peter van der Toorn VRIJTHOFF
Biography
POSITION
Director of the Architectural Design and Engineering P.van der Toorn Vrijthoff bv, Holland
PRESENTATION
Botanical garden Whisley London – the newglass house Surray won the Heritage and Environment Award for New Building Design
Opened by Her Majesty The Queen, the stunning pre-fabricated glasshouse was designed by architect Peter van der Toorn Vrijthoff
The EcOman project – the “Green Award” in 2012
The glasshouse of Wisley Gardens is an interesting example to use single temperate glass in a curved position. This can be done also with isolated glass. A new and complicated development is the Royal Botanical Glasshouse in Kuwait. Because of the extreme temperatures în the prject was used a special type of glass together with other provisions to control temperature.
AWARDS
Heritage and Environment Award for New Building Design
BIOGRAPHY
After leading 3 architectural and engineering companies in Holland he started in 2011 a new international design team named AllDesign.
They try to integrate Architecture, Interior design, Graphic design, Art direction and Product design.
Specialists in Offshore module design, large glass structures and educational projects.
Award winners with the Wisley Garden botanical Glasshouse in England and the Ecological Museum in Muscat, Oman.
Latest project the Royal botanical landscape garden and glasshouse in Kuwait. Did several workshops with students all over the world.
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