NEW ENVIRONMENTS is an urban design agency from Amsterdam. We use design to improve wellbeing by shaping a dynamic relationship between humans and the environment.
Climate change, population growth, and globalisation are compromising the finite resources that the planet provides. New environments need to cater for a growing number of services and navigate the needs of human, floral, and faunal stakeholders. The agency embraces this complexity and promotes a new systemic integrality in the planning profession. We design symbiotic environments, curate transformative processes, and develop realisable futures.
Our expertise include long-term visions for territorial transformation, integrated urban-landscape plans and designs, climate strategy and roadmaps, participatory processes led by powerful spatial narratives. With our work we foster a collaborative environment that integrates research, academia, and design practice.
Our team is committed to building strong relationships with clients and partners. We regard every challenge as an opportunity to join forces with our network of independent designers, researchers, and experts.
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+ Anjelika Romeo-Hall
Anjelika is an earth scientist, integrating Climate Strategy into NEW ENVIRONMENTS’ values and approach to produce climate resilient and inclusive designs.
She holds an MSc in Earth Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and a BSc from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (NY). For the past 8 years, she has been working in climate change consulting from the international companies EY and ERM, helping a wide array of clients, from small startups to large multinational companies and financial institutions. She specializes in environmental impact measurement and climate strategy - through methods including Greenhouse gas accounting, Life cycle analysis, climate risk assessments, and decarbonization strategies.
Anjelika has a curious and opportunistic approach to sustainability. She gains energy from connecting different persons, cultures, and expertise together, whereby innovation is best fostered. In addition to her work at NEW ENVIRONMENTS she serves as an Associate Director for the sustainability consulting firm Earthwise. Outside of the office you can find her trail running in nature.
anjelika@newenvironments.eu
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+ Blandine L'Huillier
Blandine joined NEW ENVIRONMENTS seeking to learn from cities in both the Global North and South in order to combine urban design cultures and practices, and envisage a more shared and resilient future.
She aims to develop a sustainable urban design practice which not only responds to local environmental issues but also questions our way of living and inhabiting the world.
Blandine graduated in architecture at the National School of Architecture of Lyon (ENSAL) and in urban planning in the field of international cooperation at Grenoble Alpes Urban Institute (IUGA) in France.
blandine@newenvironments.eu
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+ Giacomo Gallo
Giacomo is an architect and urban designer, Founder of NEW ENVIRONMENTS. He works internationally on urban assignments connecting different disciplines and scales. Climate-positive design and wellbeing act as core pillars for his projects.
Giacomo is committed to education: the driving force for critical thinking and activism. He is a design critic and guest lecturer at several higher education institutions, such as the Amsterdam and Rotterdam Academies of Architecture, where he pursues learning through urban practice.
He gained experience at UNStudio, KCAP, and MUST, working on complex international and Dutch urban design projects involving multiple stakeholders. In Porto he founded the start-up for temporary urban projects CITY.MAKING. His graduation project was distinguished at Archiprix Portugal. He is winner of two Europan 17 competitions, in The Netherlands and Sweden.
giacomo@newenvironments.eu
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+ Robert Younger
Robert is an urban designer, Partner at NEW ENVIRONMENTS. He is passionate for innovative urban strategies that employ foresight and scenario techniques to foster a symbiotic relationship among humans and their environment.
Robert was appointed Head of Urban Design at the Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, where he curates the urban design curriculum with thematic emphases on Degrowth, Urban Environments and Futures. In his role he is responsible for the branding of the urban design track and for expanding the domestic and international network of the school, bridging academia and design practice. He has previous teaching experience at the Amsterdam and Rotterdam Academies of Architecture.
Before joining NEW ENVIRONMENTS, Robert was project leader at Karres+Brands, where he led multiple urban transformation projects and master plans from competition to realisation, focusing on the German market. Previously he worked as urban designer at the international firm MLA+ and the Department for Space and Sustainability at the City of Amsterdam.
robert@newenvironments.eu
+31628327662
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+ Tadej Gregorič
Tadej joined NEW ENVIRONMENTS in 2025 as urban design intern. He is passionate about transforming underperforming spaces into vibrant places for the community,
prioritising sustainability and long-term appropriation.
Tadej is a second year Master's student in Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, where he works on current spatial issues in various international workshops, competitions and roundtables. He has furthered his knowledge abroad through the Erasmus+ programme at the Saxion Hogeschool in Deventer, the Netherlands.
In parallel to his work at NEW ENVIRONMENTS, Tadej's current research focuses on sustainable transport and spatial wellbeing, applied to transit-oriented development.
tadej@newenvironments.eu
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Nieuwe Hemweg 2
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