Comparison between Dutch and German buildings

German buildings are often seen as an example to Dutch architects and Dutch building services consultants. Goal of this article is to examine and to understand differences between the Dutch and German top office buildings. Objective is to examine in which extent these buildings were designed intelligent. An Intelligent Building is one that provides a productive cost effective environment through the optimisation of six basic elements; site, skin, systems, structures, services, space plan and stuff and the interrelationship between them. Based on these six aspects the comparison is made between... Mehr ...