The Dutch housing market remains inaccessible to first-time buyers: this week, data revealed single people can afford 3,4 percent of homes in the Netherland.
While the pandemic years have been tough on the world, it’s also been a period of learning and adapting, and being more mindful about the way we live our lives. Minimalism, flexible and adaptable spaces, sustainable construction, energy-efficiency and materiality, along with sensitivity towards the environment will continue to be addressed in building design; however, new technologies, innovative materials and pioneering architecture will lead the way in 2023 as architects proactively go beyond their comfort zones to design the built environment with a futuristic perspective.
On 16 February 2022, the Netherlands' Ministry of the Interior (Ministerie van Binnenlandse zaken en koninkrijksrelaties) made a preliminary decision…