Cepezed Architects

Profile of Cepezed Architects, headquartered in Netherlands. Twenty nine projects submitted by Cepezed Architects have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Jan Pesman – © Cepezed Architects

Principals

Jan Pesman
Ronald Schleurholts

Brief description

cepezed: inimitably intelligible

cepezed is a medium sized, award-winning spatial design specialist addressing challenges of town-planning, industry, interiors and particularly architecture. Combining conceptual skills, contemporary solutions for contemporary problems and ingenious creativity, results are disarmingly sober and inimitably intelligible.

Aesthetics and functionality are logically linked. At cepezed, projects are designed as monuments of function for people, not monuments of thanks to an architect. Careful detailing, modest styling and high-grade materials are some of the keys.

cepezed uses an integral design method with multiple material use in which spatial design, construction and installation techniques are forged into an indivisible whole.

Regular construction materials do not always suffice for cepezed's integral design methods. Therefore it also innovates. Over recent time cepezed has introduced new building materials to achieve the special effects clients desire.

With empathy, professionalism, freedom from convention and as much trust in technology as itself, cepezed continuously invests best efforts on ever new, durable and intelligent building solutions.

Published projects

: European Space Innovation Centre (ESIC) by Cepezed Architects The Dutch municipality of Noordwijk is primarily known for the presence there of the European Space Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC), the largest branch of...

: Pas Reform Storage and Distribution Facility by Cepezed Architects Pas Reform Hatching Technologies is a major international player in the field of brooding technology for the poultry sector. Among other things, the company...

: TRS Transport Cooling by Cepezed Architects TRS, a company specialized in silent and energy-saving transport cooling systems for trucks and containers among other things, previously occupied various...

: Van Wijk Printery by Cepezed Architects Van Wijk, printers to the Royal Household, occupied premises in the centre of Oostzaan when the municipality expressed an intention to redevelop the location...

: Cepezed Office by Cepezed Architects A strikingly modern office building on the fringes of the historical inner city of Delft. The premises are an example of characteristic cepezed qualities such...

: Innovationszentrum für Informatik by Cepezed Architects This is a stylish eye-catcher in Berlin-Adlershof, where a complete knowledge and media city has been under development around the former airfield since the...

: ÖAW Forschungszentrum by Cepezed Architects New building for the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Science), in which the Institut für Weltraumforschung (Space Research),...

: Westraven Office Complex by Cepezed Architects This project is a complex and large-scale combination of existing buildings and new construction for various departments of the Dutch Department of Public...

: The Outlook by Cepezed Architects American-style, very modern office complex with an open, light, pavilion-like ambience, considerable free height at each storey, and extra-wide office bays...

: Netherlands Embassy in Rome by Cepezed Architects Radical renovation of the Netherlands Embassy in Rome. The diplomatic post was situated in a richly decorated urban mansion dating from 1929, built in...

: Centre for Human Drug Research by Cepezed Architects Laboratory for a biotechnical company, situated on the Bio Science Park in Leiden. The labs consist of two elongated segments, which can be freely partitioned,...

: PTT Post Distribution Centres by Cepezed Architects Formula-based series of eighteen distribution offices for the national post service, in which the challenge primarily lay in the exceptionally low budget and...

: Porsche Zentrum Zuffenhausen by Cepezed Architects Standard for the worldwide architectural Porsche Corporate Identity. Hundreds of branches of the prestigious make of car have now emulated this customer centre...

: Anker Printers Office by Cepezed Architects Austerely designed commercial premises for a printing works near Lelystad. The building is full of smart solutions and proves once again how easily innovative...

: Ronic Office by Cepezed Architects Commercial premises covering more than 13,000 m2 for Ronic, a former producer of display materials and shop interiors in Woerden. The building contains...

: Langerak Office by Cepezed Architects Commercial premises on a corner parcel for a supplier of transport wheels. In a straightforward manner, the construction has been given an exceptionally...

: Exhibition Pavilion by Cepezed Architects Originally intended to be a temporary exhibition building, the jury of the British Steel Colorcoat Award acclaimed this construction as an architectonic...

: Race Planet by Cepezed Architects The first building ever to be specifically designed as an indoor go-kart track. Situated along the A13 motorway near Delft, it contains four stacked tracks...

: Pinas Exposition Pavilion by Cepezed Architects An exhibition showcase twenty metres long and thirteen metres deep, offering maximum transparency for a 17th-century shipwreck of the pinas type. Just like...

: Brabanthallen by Cepezed Architects Complete restructuring, restoration, and extension of what was once the largest livestock market hall in Europe. Now, parts of the Brabanthallen have been put...

: Leeghwater swimming pool by Cepezed Architects Multifunctional swimming pool in Purmerend, with six different pools and a great lucidity of concept, elaboration, and materialization. No budget was expended...

: Audax Textile Museum by Cepezed Architects Radical extension and renovation of the Textile Museum in Tilburg. In addition, the museum, the museum grounds, and the surrounding neighbourhood now display...

: Jinso pavilion by Cepezed Architects Extension to a catering pavilion on the Arena Boulevard in Amsterdam which was also designed by cepezed in the 1990s. Due to the scale enlargement of the...

: Semi-detached houses by Cepezed Architects Much-discussed and prize-winning semi-detached houses on the south edge of Delft, primarily oriented to maximum spaciousness. To create as much volume as...

: Rietveld house by Cepezed Architects Remarkable and controversial combination of existing and new construction on the Rietveld, a small canal in Delft. Both individual and institutionalized...

: The Arc by Cepezed Architects 500 m2 of commercial space and 45 subsidized owner-occupied houses each covering around 100 m2 in the bonded warehouse area at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam...

: Quirijn Boulevard by Cepezed Architects Variegated housing in the direct vicinity of a city park that was once envisaged as the continuation of a motorway. For the Landréstraat, cepezed designed...

: Sint-Niklaas Station Environment by Cepezed Architects Large-scale revamp of the station environment in Sint-Niklaas. Along with the restructuring of the Grote Markt, which was also implemented by cepezed, the...

: Grote Markt restructuring by Cepezed Architects Much-praised reorganization of the largest city square in Europe, which, along with the restructured station area also conceived by cepezed, belongs to the...

Key projects

2008 - Expansion of Arena Boulevard catering pavilion, Amsterdam. Netherlands
2007 - Renovation and Expansion and renovation of Westraven office block, Utrecht, Netherlands
2007 - Expansion and renovation of Audax Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
2007 - The Outlook office complex, Schiphol, Netherlands
2007 - Renovation of Netherlands embassy in Rome, Italy
2005 - Renewal of the Grote Markt, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2004 - Renewal of the station area, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2004 - VRT Broadcasting studios, Kortrijk & Hasselt, Belgium
2004 - Refurbishment of shipbuilding yard to entertainment centre and film theatre, Den Helder, Netherlands.
2003 - Ronic commercial premises, Woerden, Netherlands
2000 - Porsche Zentrum Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Germany
2000 - ÖAW Forschungszentrum, Graz, Austria
1998 - Innovationszentrum fuer Informatik, Berlin, Germany