Dutch House is a pair of brick apartment blocks in Moscow designed by Rotterdam studio Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik to directly reference the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
The 19- and 20-storey towers, which contain 360 apartments, were designed to stand out from the blocks that surround them in western Moscow's District 75.
To do this the architecture studio looked to the style of the Amsterdam School, developed in the early-1900s.

"Our client Krost asked specifically for Dutch architecture that would reference the rich cultural history of the Netherlands," Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik told Dezeen.
"We looked beyond the iconic canal-house facades of the Dutch Golden Age period in the 17th-century that are known all over the world. Instead we took the Amsterdam School as an inspiration and reference."
The pair of matching towers each have stepped facades with large curved bay-windows running diagonally up them that take their form from the Dutch style.
"The formal language of the Amsterdam School emphasises creative use of materials, refined architectural details and a precise way of construction," continued the studio.
"A contemporary architecture was developed based on the idiom of the Amsterdam School: explicit plasticity with preferably rounded forms, rhythmic repetition of volumes, vertical articulation and repetitive square windows."

The form of the towers was also determined by Russia's building codes that requ...