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Architecture Documentaries To Watch In 2015

Following our top 40 Architecture Docs to Watch in 2014 and our favourite 30 Architecture Docs to Watch in 2013…, 2015 is no exception! Our latest round up continues to feature a fantastic range of films and documentaries telling the Sigue leyendo

Photographic Exhibition Highlights The Relationship Between Brick And The Dutch

The Netherlands Builds in Brick is one of the latest exhibitions at Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut… (formerly the NAi). It seeks to modify the “assumed triumph of Modernism” in the interwar period, drawing upon two photographic collections from the Institute’s extensive archives. Sigue leyendo

Bus Station Canopies / MAXWAN architects + urbanists

Architects: MAXWAN architects + urbanists
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Design Team: Rients Dijkstra and Hiroki Matsuura with Artur Boresjo, Nobuki Ogasahara Rene Sangers, Harm te Velde, Aleksandar Hrib.
Year: 2014
Photographs: Filip Dujardin Steel Manufacturing: IHC Studio Metalix (forming), Van der … Sigue leyendo

On View: Inside Outside’s “Museological Reconstruction” of Rotterdam’s Iconic Sonneveld House

Inside Rotterdam’s Sonneveld House everything is in order: books arranged nearly on shelves, chairs tucked under tables, rugs set square on the bedroom floor. The house is a pristine tableau depicting what the interior would have looked like whilst inhabited by… Sigue leyendo

Surface As Sculpture: Henry Moore’s Brick Reliefs In Rotterdam

In 1954 British sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to design and install a large wall relief into Joost Boks’ new bouwcentrum… (Construction Centre) in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. The project, pieced together with approximately 16,000 hand-carved Dutch bricks, stands as the sculptor’s only work Sigue leyendo

Nieuwe Park Rozenburgschool / KCAP Architects&Planners

Architects: KCAP Architects&Planners
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Area: 3200.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Ossip van Duivenbode From the architect.… The ‘Nieuwe Park Rozenburgschool’ is an elementary school in Rotterdam’s quarter Kralingen-Crooswijk with children from various ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. The Sigue leyendo

Nieuwe Park Rozenburgschool / KCAP Architects&Planners

Architects: KCAP Architects&Planners
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Area: 3200.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Ossip van Duivenbode From the architect.… The ‘Nieuwe Park Rozenburgschool’ is an elementary school in Rotterdam’s quarter Kralingen-Crooswijk with children from various ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. The Sigue leyendo

MVRDV and Interior Urbanism: An Interview With Winy Maas

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, one of the major changes within cities around the world has been the rise of so-called “privately-owned public space,” a development which has attracted the attention of many urbanists and is still being widely … Sigue leyendo

Rotterdam Central Station / Benthem Crouwel Architects + MVSA Architects + West 8

Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architects, MVSA Architects, West 8
Location: Stationsplein 1, 3013 AJ Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lead Architects: Jan Benthem, Marcel Blom, Adriaan Geuze, Jeroen van Schooten
Area: 46000.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jannes Linders, Rijksoverheid, Team CS, Gemeenten Rotterdam… Collaborators: Sigue leyendo

‘An Installation In Four Acts’ – Exploring Structuralism At Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut

Great movements in architecture are usually set in motion by a dull societal ache or as a response to a sudden, unforeseen reorientation of a community at large. The Dutch city of Rotterdam - vast swathes of which were cast into oblivion… Sigue leyendo