OverHolland examines the relationship between architectural interventions and urban transformations in the presentday Randstad Holland region of the Netherlands. Once again these issues have been approached from various angles. By bringing together studies in the fields of design, history and theory, the editors of OverHolland hope to encourage exchange between various types of research into the architecture of Holland’s cities and so enable new lines and themes for design and study to emerge.OverHolland 9 opens with a promising graduation project by Ilmar Hurkxkens, entitled ‘Paradise Regained. The watchman, the sleeper, the dreamer and the city’. Hurkxkens presents his project as ‘a narrative inquiry into the history and future of the dyk...