Architectural Identity for Applied Sciences University
Starting with the 2009/2010 school year, the Northern Hogeschool Leeuwarden in The Netherlands — a 10,000-student, medium-sized university specializing in applied sciences — will be known as NHL University, and will soon be occupying a new, fancy and diagonally-inclined building designed by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. For the university’s new era, Amsterdam based koeweiden postma designed a new identity inspired by the building. New campus designed by Herman Hertzberger. Luckily, the new identity doesn’t just show a reduced, black and white version of the building, but instead it takes its cues from the building’s lines and structure, all fairly evident in the sturdy and dynamic NHL acronym, which comes in two orientations. I wonder if five, seven or f
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