Comments on: Rotterdam City Hall Extension entries

By: påt®iciå

påt®iciå — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:52:39 +0000

OMA gana concurso para diseñar edificio de gobierno de Rotterdam, a pesar de salir último en una encuesta pública http://tinyurl.com/yzz3qnv

By: Johny

Johny — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:59:38 +0000

Really bad new for architecture!!
“The best” office, at least the most famous one, win the competition with the worst project.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:21:04 +0000

OMA has won the competition.

Dutch news article here: http://www.architectenweb.nl/aweb/redactie/redactie_detail.asp?iNID=21733

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:30:50 +0000

What about the real architecture, the mature architecture, the serious architecture. The only good one is Mecanoo, all the others are not serious, they are to experimental, imposible or just it doesn’t work.
Claus en Kaan also did a project that works, but is not so nice…

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:09:18 +0000

I was at the exhibition at NAi, and the design of Search and OMA are really stupid. They pretend to be sustainable, and is just an image of sustainability. OMA has a lot of m2 of façade, and Search is just green coloured. But for exemple, in the booklet of Mecanoo I could see a lot of inteligent and convincing explanations about why their building is sustainable, just with architectural concepts such as: compacity, nutaral ventilation, green roof, flexibility, multiple uses for the building, termic inercy and solar protection, etc. Amazing, how the simplest project, is the smarter.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:00:52 +0000

Yes, it’s truth. All the other projects seems a new building placed to close to the old building, but Mecanoo seems that really finish the project of the old building, as an idea to complete an urban block and create an uniform image.
Mecanoo’s design has the best relation with the old building.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:57:18 +0000

Yo diria que OMA es de lejos el proyecto menos sostenible, igualement el de SEARCH parece que se basa en ser de color verde para decir que es sostenible. Por otra parte el de Mecanoo en ese aspecto es el más compacto, con menor superficie expuesta de fachada y al mismo tiempo parece ser el más economico sin perder calidad arquitectónica, ni funcionalismo, que deberia ser uno de los conceptos prevalentes en los edificios públicos.
El de Meyer, pese a parecer compacto, pierde fuerza y compacidad al separarse del edificio antiguo y crear una galeria entre el edificio antiguo y su proyecto. El de Meyer y Search me parecen proyectos que seria mejor construirlos aislados, porque tienen muy mala relación con el edificio antiguo

By: John

John — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:50:58 +0000

No way about Meyer!, they just put a new building inside the old stadstimmerhuis. It’s the same strategie as Search, OMA and Clausenkan. To create a dark gap between 2 buildings seams stupid. Mecanoo seems the only design where you can see one project, just one building. For me the Mecanoo concept is the strongest.
Althought the mecanoo image is serious, and for sure, it works. Is not this kind of experimentation of search or OMA, that they don’t know how to build it.

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By: Maqbul

Maqbul — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:32:20 +0000

Reading: "Rotterdam City Hall Extension entries | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/5ch36a)

By: MT Durban

MT Durban — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:31:54 +0000

You mean Mecanoo were the only firm brave enough to demolish the existing historical building. With that said ‘brave’ doesnt really seem like the most appropriate word any more…

By: Jacob Antoni

Jacob Antoni — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:47:59 +0000

by scrolling down the pictures: i didnt liked the fact or it appeared to me, that from the idea of vertical gardens / green architecture / ergonomic cannon or cave character the project became more and more casual till the end where it is more or less just a rectangle typological complex with some small(er) plants… Even when it is a nice building it is a pitty watching the idea fading away (if this was the original intention???)
Would like to hear if i am wrong! Thanks!

By: flatg39

flatg39 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:47:10 +0000

OMAがロッテルダムにこんなの作ってやがる
Rotterdam City Hall
http://bit.ly/i3M7b

By: João Gabriel

João Gabriel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:31:53 +0000

http://bit.ly/qez6I

será que o koolhaas leva essa também?

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:58:21 +0000

I think that SEARCH proposal is quite interesting, because it defines a completly new volumetric typology for the city center and clear formal distinction between old and new.Strangely enough, please correct me if I am wrong the same tric, was done by Koolhaas 5 years ago, for the competition of Les Halles in Paris, where the french called his project-The Parfum Bottles.
Anyway..Meyer and Van Schooten is quite brutal and monumental, a bit New Yorkeese…which is not bad, and have to admit i like quite a lot..the problem is it is too massive and gives a bit the impression of an FBI headquarters…but still good project…
Mecanno surprises me with its quite classical modernist urban integration, and I am sure they are aiming to win in a very SECURE way..the facade of the low rise is quite elegant, but overal, i consider this project to be too classical for the purpose and the city…
OMA is you know OMA…but i think they starting getting too much used to the idea of the dematerialized volumes or eroding towers..they did it somewhere recently….Herzog and Demeuron as well, Jean Nouvel..i mean…bit of a Deja Vue….
Claus and Kaan..are actually giving quite complex proposal, which I think gives lots of richness and is a kind of Hybrid building…it at the same time on a scale of the city, offers courtyards…but also a landmarc presence with the connected towers..it is quite succesful urban architecture…The risk is that their facades look too much like an old fashoined office building which would destroy the interesting volumes.
Good projects …but i think purely realistically Mecanno will win….otherwise Claus and Kaan or Meyer and Van Schotten are the most competitive projects…

By: zilez

zilez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:46:49 +0000

SeARCH has the model too bad to show their perhaps nice idea, so the building looks really bad.
Meyer en van Schooten Architecten project looks really nice, both in shape and materiality but they indeed have a big problem with interior, since you can find almost completely the same interior of the Hague town hall.
OMA’s vagueness is intentional since their concept is a cloud above the solid. The curtain walls is indeed made of industrial transparent rubber sheets. Its a good thing to test in Rotterdam, supreme test area.
Mecanoo is very brave in terms of chopping the old building, and that part of the project i really much like, but, other stuff looks soooo ordinary and plane that project is not interesting any more… and come on, 010 on the tower, can you be any more obvious?
Claus en Kaan… too nothing!

I vote for Meyer… and OMA

By: Huib

Huib — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:42:17 +0000

Mecanoo is the only office brave enough to really use the existing office building!

By: Tuf-Pak

Tuf-Pak — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:16:19 +0000

Maybe it’s like those plastic curtains that separate the cold rooms at supermarkets. They could store gigantic sides of beef in the lobby.

That said, I love the use of the rigid truss to get the building off the ground and make those public spaces possible.

By: darthelkens

darthelkens — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:07:14 +0000

first project there,those 4 blocks maybe too close to each other?