The Black Barn is designed as an abstract barn volume with black-stained wooden facades and a zinc roof. In a larger context, it stands on a historic ribbon development and has the shape of a barn, including a recessed building line, an integration that befits the site. The front presents itself as a modest, closed volume. However, the open-slatted structure creates a translucent effect at dusk. It thus gives extra layering and shows a glimpse of studio life from the outside. both design studios continue to work on new projects at the interface of architecture You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article Ireen Wüst (born April 1, 1986, Goirle, Netherlands) is a Dutch former speed skater whose 13 Olympic medals have made her the most-decorated speed skater in the history of the Games her medal total is the most of any Dutch Olympian Wüst began skating when she was 11 years old and made her senior speed-skating debut in November 2003 she won the silver medal at the world junior championships and in 2005 she was the junior all-around world champion Wüst won five world all-around titles (2007 2011–14) and 21 medals (9 gold) at the world single-distance championships She also won four European all-around championships (2008 winning five medals to become the most-decorated athlete at those Games She took home gold in the 3,000 meters and the team pursuit event and earned silver in the 1,000 meters There she made history when she won the 1,500-meter event becoming the first athlete to claim an individual gold medal at five different Olympics; in addition her winning time of 1:53.28 was an Olympic record Wüst ended her career with six gold medals She notably won seven all-around world championships and she claimed more than 110 World Cup titles Surrounded by the wild nature of the dutch town Goirle, the Black Barn designed by studio] [space architecten is an inspiring hidden workplace for landscape architects. Located in Abcovenseweg, the Netherlands the office project aims for a modest but high-quality construction that draws all attention to the surrounding landscape The structure presents a closed character on the street side while opening up its volume toward the adjacent river Enthusiastic about integrating nature into their design the team lets flora and fauna take over merging the construction with the greenery and providing numerous nest boxes on the facade Designed as an abstract barn volume with black-stained wooden facades and a zinc roof the structure stands on a historic ribbon development while the front presents itself as a modest The exposed glazed facade puts up a system of vertical wooden slats that form a translucent effect at dusk assembling an extra layering and showing a glimpse of studio life to the outside solid facade of black wood opens up a view of the inside through the planks | all images by Koen van Damme meeting the goal of an inspiring workspace integrated into the natural environment both reside in the black barn hosting both practices respectfully proceeding to work on new projects at the interface of architecture nest boxes for birds and bats are integrated into the wooden facade large planters and an outdoor fireplace adorn the concrete terrace the black barn illuminates warm lighting from within the black barn office merges with the surrounding wild greenery the black-stained wooden slats form the barn office’s volume name: Black Barn designer: studio] [space architecten landscape design: Studio REDD photography: Koen van Damme | @koenvandamme designboom has received this project from our DIY submissions feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here. edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom happening now! partnering with antonio citterio, AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function, but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style, context, and personal expression. The house is situated near a busy round-about with lots of noisy traffic. Measures had to be taken to guarantee a comfortable and quiet living space. This basic constraint became the leitmotiv for a building with two opposite characters; a closed-off protective side and an open inviting transparent side. Ground Floor PlanThe protective side is apparent when looking at the house from the round-about. The street façade is entirely closed with the exception of a single window. However, this doesn’t prelude a dark interior. Right behind the façade a patio with a water basin cleverly allows light to enter whilst pushing the living area’s even further back; away from the busy street. © Michel KievitsThe house is clad in a medium gray brick with dark gray slate roof tiles A material pallet typical of the Bedaux repertoire The characteristic front façade chimneys also remind of earlier designs by previous generations The number of cases involving honor-related violence increased by 8 percent last year, Wilfred Janmaat, head of the police’s expertise center on this form of violence, told EenVandaag She spoke of a considerable increase in incidents aimed at “restoring” a family’s honor “Most cases that are reported concern threats, harassment, and assault. That is the bulk of cases. In only a few cases does it concern murder,” Janmaat said. In 2023, three women and one man were killed. The victims are almost always women there is an increase in honor-related violence among people “who have not lived in the Netherlands for very long.” These incidents most often occur among Netherlands residents with a Syrian “People who have come from a war zone and have experienced a lot of misery where people cling to the customary law of their country of origin.” a shelter in Goirle for girls and young women who fell victim to honor-related violence “It concerns families with a certain expectation pattern,” director Ilona Brekelmans told the program such as girls who have sex before marriage or who refuse to marry the person their parents had chosen for them the family wants to do things to restore the family’s honor And then such a woman can really be in danger.” honor-related violence requires a different approach than domestic violence because the perpetrator is the whole family instead of one man With domestic violence “there is usually only one perpetrator and then you can give the father or brother a restraining order,” Janmaat said “But in the case of honor-related violence the honor is borne by the entire family as a collective but then more people pose a danger to the victim Then it is better for the woman in question to take her into a shelter for her own safety.” there is no easy way to stop this violence “There must be continued attention to the subject Education and information are particularly important,” she said “But I am convinced that change must ultimately come from within This article was published more than 2 years ago John Boxtel chose Canada because he’d come across a pine box made here that had somehow found its way to the Netherlands preferred it to all other woods for the thousands of projects he built he flew from Holland to Montreal with a suitcase and a toolbox he ate a meal of boiled potatoes at the Royal York Hotel John had already survived the war in Holland He would live in Canada the rest of his life but “remained tied always to Holland by a kite-string.” He married Wilma Albers John’s arrival in Canada coincided with a postwar building frenzy and during his life he built or rebuilt countless houses But he had come to Canada not to be a builder but a sculptor he moved to Fenelon Falls and taught building He studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and University of Toronto under Frances Gage later teaching in Oakville and Stoney Creek John quit to make art full-time in a derelict farmhouse on one of the Thousand Islands in eastern Ontario He and painter Rose Stewart lived there year-round; John built an amphibious iceboat to navigate months of dangerous river ice worked outside naked and greeted guests naked He saw it as unlearning the body shame of growing up Catholic he began on a monument project for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association eventually completing 14 figures now marking First World War Ukrainian internment sites throughout Canada he prefabbed all furnishings for a hotel they created in central Oaxaca where he built a studio and lived for a time with Helen Brant retaining the right to live there in an older house Heather and their family watched over him in the years to come He fell in and out of loves and friendships He was a master of treehouse architecture and marvellous staircases He worked steadily on his last book; he published seven intellectual curiosity and countless skills Tom Carpenter and Donna Radtke count themselves among John’s many friends To submit a Lives Lived: lives@globeandmail.com Lives Lived celebrates the everyday, extraordinary, unheralded lives of Canadians who have recently passed. 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Bramall served in the Second World War and his writing on conflict doctrine became military gospel I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Edwin Bramall was the last Second World War soldier to serve as Britain’s head of the armed forces and by the end of his career had become an outspoken opinion-former. Bramall, who has died aged 95, opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and in 2013 devoted his last speech as a crossbencher in the House of Lords to calling for Britain’s nuclear deterrent to be abandoned It was almost 70 years earlier in a very different war that “Dwin” Bramall first distinguished himself He won the Military Cross in October 1944 for a reconnaissance patrol on the Dutch-Belgian frontier in which he and his command disabled a German machine-gun position A week later he and his platoon liberated the village of Goirle in North Brabant He had been wounded twice during the Allies’ advance being first the only survivor in Normandy in July of a direct hit on his company’s half-track HQ vehicle with a gash in his thigh so bad that evacuation and an operation in Britain were needed; then whose father’s family had married into the ownership of an Egyptian cotton enterprise There he excelled at maths and art – having two paintings selected for the 1940 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – and captained the cricket team before joining up and in May 1943 being commissioned into the 60th Rifles After victory in Europe Bramall volunteered to serve in the Asia, becoming part of the Allied occupation force in Japan after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His reservations about how nuclear weapons could ever be used again surfaced early in the army career should the British army’s 3rd Division (to which he was attached) be threatened with nuclear weapons while there which remained in Libya during the Suez crisis In 1958 he joined the directing staff at the army staff college in Camberley Discussions at the time focused on tactical nuclear weapons and how they might be used on a European battlefield He spent two years from 1961 in Berlin as battalion second-in-command of the 2nd Green Jackets (King’s Royal Rifle Corps) was personal staff officer to the then chief of the defence staff He saw action again in Borneo in 1965 during the Indonesian confrontation and wrote down his thoughts on command in a pamphlet he was dismayed to be harnessed instead as an author of military doctrine for use at Camberley but the pamphlets he wrote would remain military gospel for the next three decades All the time he was developing the concept with which military theoreticians would associate him which he was later to put succinctly as “helping our friends to help themselves”: dynamic diplomacy with indirect military support anywhere in the world in addition to the already agreed “four pillars” – nuclear deterrent and Europe’s central region – of post-war military planning Bramall saw the Middle East as a potential danger zone and feared that force could make things worse might draw terrorist groups to the scene as “bees to a honeypot” During the 1970s he held command posts in first Germany and then Hong Kong He had doubts in April 1982 about the sending of the naval task force to expel Argentine invaders from the Falkland Islands but had been away visiting troops when the decision was taken and as chief of the defence staff from 1982-85 had a fraught relationship with the then-defence secretary who sought to reorganise Ministry of Defence management In retirement he became lord lieutenant of London; he reorganised the Imperial War Museum of which he was chair; and was president of the Gurkha Brigade Association and of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) he said he had accepted nuclear deterrent argument during the Cold War but “in a now intensely globalised and interlocked world .. our deterrent [could] never conceivably be used … without making the situation worse.” In March 2015 Bramall’s house was searched by police investigating allegations of a paedophile ring among high-placed politicians and leading military figures, in the inquiry Operation Midland Lady Bramall died in July 2015 while Bramall was still under investigation. In January 2016 the Metropolitan Police announced that it had dropped investigations into Lord Bramall in connection with allegations of historical child abuse. Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, soldier, born 18 December 1923, died 12 November 2019 Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies A 56-year-old man from Goirle was arrested early on Wednesday morning after he made 100 calls to the police over night the man "unnecessarily and systematically" called the police and insulted the persons who answered the phone The man is officially suspected of "a crime against public authority" the man is a repeat offender and well known to the police Officers visited him on Saturday and told him to stop calling the police after he called the police number a few dozen times The man was warned that he would be arrested if he kept harassing the police call line the man said he called the police so many times because he was unhappy with the way they operate After a long chase through the forest in the border area near Goirle The chase crossed the border between Belgium and the Netherlands twice The suspect was arrested and is in hospital to be treated on Thursday the police noticed a suspicious van in a business park in Tilburg When officers wanted to arrest the two people in the van they sped away towards the border in Goirle the suspects crossed the border into Belgium and then back into the Netherlands In the forest the suspects ended up on a dead-end road and could drive no further sniffer dogs and a local forester who knows the area So far the second suspect hasn't been found the department that handles internal investigation at government institutions like the police launched an investigation into the shooting This is standard procedure whenever a police officer fires his or her service weapon The police did not say why the van was suspicious The frequency of car break-ins significantly increases in November in the Netherlands. Research by Independer based on police data shows that over the past three years the number of car burglaries in November was on average 20 percent higher than the annual average The figure also revealed disparities among municipalities In November, cars are broken into much more often. Over the past three years, the number of car break-ins in November was even on average 20 percent higher than the annual average, according to research by Independer based on police data marking an increase of 715 incidents compared to the same period last year The number of car burglaries is expected to rise significantly as November typically sees the highest frequency of such incidents the number of car burglaries in November has been “The number of burglaries starts to rise in the autumn and the peak occurs in November,” explained Independent car insurance expert Menno Dijcks there are significant difference in car break-ins rates across the Netherlands the number of car burglaries has more than doubled compared to the same period last year the risk of car burglary is higher than in any other Dutch municipality there are roughly 21.6 car burglaries per 1,000 cars in the capital a rate about 5.5 times higher than the national average in the Netherlands Hauptnavigation: Nutzen Sie die Tabulatortaste Schließen Sie Untermenüs mit der Escape-Taste Riet van der Louw has created a statue of a soldier with the hated helmet Dutch citizens have collected thousands of euros so that the controversial memorial can be cast in bronze and put on displayQuelle: DPA/A9999 DB van eijndhoven{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","contentUrl":"https://img.welt.de/img/english-news/mobile101915868/3201350927-ci23x11-w2000/eng-wehrmacht-teaser-BM-Bayern-Goirle-jpg.jpg","caption":"Riet van der Louw has created a statue of a soldier with the hated helmet Dutch citizens have collected thousands of euros so that the controversial memorial can be cast in bronze and put on display","copyrightNotice":"DPA/A9999 DB van eijndhoven","creditText":"DPA/A9999 DB van eijndhoven","width":"2000"}The image of Germans in the Netherlands is showing a glimmer of hope after the atrocities of the Nazis: In the tiny village of Goirle a civil initiative has decided to erect a memorial to the German World War II soldier Karl-Heinz Rosch The image of Germans in the Netherlands is showing a glimmer of hope after the atrocities of the Nazis: In the tiny village of Goirle The steel helmet is unmistakable: the Wehrmacht the notorious armed forces of Nazi Germany Most Dutch people recognize it immediately Now the artist Riet van der Louw has created a statue of a soldier with the hated helmet Dutch citizens have collected thousands of euros so that the controversial memorial can be cast in bronze and put on display but rather the humanity of a young German soldier,” said the leader of the memorial initiative The young German’s name was Karl-Heinz Rosch he did something on a farm in the southern Netherlands community of Goirle that would make him a hero in the eyes of many: Under fire from Allied forces the German snatched up two defenseless children and brought them to safety When he then ran after his retreating comrades a bullet hit him under his arm—exactly where he had just been carrying the children there were body parts everywhere,” said a witness of the gruesome scene “The heroic act of the young German has been kept under wraps for 60 years,” wrote the former city councilor Van Rouwendaal in an appeal for donations for the Rosch memorial But the image of the Germans in the Netherlands has undergone a transformation The Dutch no longer refer to their neighbors with derogatory terms like ‘Moffe’ as often as they used to “Give us our bicycles back!” going back to corresponding acts of thievery by the Wehrmacht the experience during the 2006 soccer World Cup of tolerant and fun-loving Germans caused many Dutch to throw the clichés overboard and his friends thought it was high time to do something to rectify an outdated “Some Dutch are caught in a black-and-white way of thinking,” he said That there were also unsavory characters among us who for example betrayed Jews and robbed them Supporters of the memorial were expecting opposition They were prepared for the argument that it would be inappropriate to honor an occupation soldier while there was still lacking a memorial for the five men from Goirle who in 1942 were tied to stakes and shot by the Germans as a warning against resistance Their suggestion: place a monument for the murdered five next to the stakes and then place the memorial to Karl-Heinz Rosch nearby In this way one could show both sides of the German occupation: brutality and suppression and the occasional the local council decided that a memorial for a Wehrmacht soldier was still “too socially sensitive.” In addition the unofficial word was that one “didn’t want to make Goirle a place of pilgrimage for German neo-Nazis.” State funding for the bronze casting and the display of the statue were rejected which depicts Rosch with the steel Wehrmacht helmet but also with the two children under his arm whose lives he saved A decision which some Dutch believe is wrong Those in favor of the memorial immediately sprung to action to collect the still-needed donations The bronze casting of the memorial is set to take place this week It will for now be put on display in the garden of one of the older residents of the town He was one of the last who saw Karl-Heinz Risch alive Back to English News Homepage Die WELT als ePaper: Die vollständige Ausgabe steht Ihnen bereits am Vorabend zur Verfügung – so sind Sie immer hochaktuell informiert Weitere Informationen https://epaper.welt.de