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Architects: Mei Architecten en Stedenbouwers
- Area: 3560 m²
Rotterdam: The Latest Architecture and News
De Fabriek in Rotterdam / Mei Architecten en Stedenbouwers
Parasite or Savior? Ibelings van Tilburg's Hovering New High-Rise
This article originally appeared in uncube magazine as "Saviour or Parasite?"
The post-war city centre of Rotterdam is ruled by commerce. Only five percent of the city's inhabitants live in the centre, which is almost entirely occupied by highstreet fashion chains, fast food restaurants, and offices. After shop closing time, the shutters go down and the streets are deserted. The municipality would like to lure more inhabitants into the centre – but space for new residential buildings is scarce. So in recent years, a 1960s cinema and church had to make way for a huge new housing complex designed by Alsop Architects, and a residential tower by Wiel Arets was speedily attached to Marcel Breuer's department store, De Bijenkorf. It was not until the municipality suggested forcing new housing high-rises into the green courtyards of the Lijnbaanhoven residential complex, designed in 1954 by Hugh Maaskant, that there were protests and the project had to be cancelled. For the time being, that is.
One densification project, however, tried not to destroy or debase the post-war building originally occupying its site. In many respects, the Karel Doorman residential high-rise could even be called the saviour of the old Ter Meulen department store. It might be rather uncommon for a valiant hero to crouch down on the shoulders of the little old lady he intends to rescue – but that's more or less what happened here.
Exodus Cube / Personal Architecture
Van Buchem House / Siebold Nijenhuis Architect
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Architects: Broekbakema, Siebold Nijenhuis Architect
- Area: 110 m²
- Year: 2011
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2013
The 2013 Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR), which focuses around the theme, 'Time Machine,' is set to take place in the cinemas of LantarenVenster October 10-13. The event will all be about evaluating the past and dreaming about the future. This will be done with movies, lots of movies, in which 'the world called city' is the leading character. The festival will also hosts television series, debates and talk shows. More information after the break.
IABR 2014 Call for Projects
With the theme of 'Urban by Nature', the sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. With Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons as the curator, IABR is calling for best practices from all over the world to support and substantiate the Biennale’s main exhibition’s narrative. Prospective participants who have designed or are designing concrete projects that deal with the relationship between man, nature and city, are invited to submit their applications by June 9, 2013. For more information, please visit here.
Luchtsingel / ZUS + Hofbogen BV
Text description provided by the architects. The Luchtsingel is a pedestrian footbridge in Rotterdam that is being realized by crowdfunding, an exciting new means of funding in which the public donates money via an online platform (essentially investing in an unrealized idea) in order to make a project reality. The Luchtsingel, which uses the slogan "the more you donate, the longer the bridge", has resonated with the public imagination and surpassed its initial funding goals, becoming an important part of Rotterdam's urban rejuvenation.
Read more about the unusual birth of this public bridge, after the break...
Villa Vonk / VenhoevenCS
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Architects: VenhoevenCS
- Area: 4714 m²
- Year: 2012
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Manufacturers: Koninklijke Tichelaar
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Professionals: Basalt Bouwadvies, Theo Wulffraat & partners, Waal Bouw, DGMR, Halmos Adviseurs
Hoogvliet / VMX Architects
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Architects: VMX Architects
- Area: 18860 m²
- Year: 2007
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Professionals: VMX Architects
9 Houses on the Water /
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Architects: BLAUW architecten, FARO Architecten
- Area: 175 m²
- Year: 2011
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Professionals: Construction Knaap
De Karel Doorman / Ibelings van Tilburg Architecten
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Architects: Ibelings van Tilburg Architecten
- Area: 10500 m²
- Year: 2012
RDM Innovation Dock / Groosman
Zeeuws Housing / Pasel.Kuenzel Architects
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Architects: Pasel.Kuenzel Architects
- Year: 2012
Shipping and Transport College / DP6
Campus Hoogvliet en Rotterdam / Wiel Arets Architects
Architects
Location
Lengweg 3192 BM, Rotterdam , holandaDesign Team
Wiel Arets, Bettina Kraus, Joris van den Hoogen, Jos BeekhuijzenCollaborators
Mai Henriksen, Jochem Homminga, Joost Korver, Marie Morin, Julius Klatte, Sjoerd Wilbers, Benine Dekker, Anne-Marie DiederichConsultants
ABT BV, Wetering Raadgevende Ingenieurs BVClient
WoonbronProject Year
2012Photographs
Area
41100.0 m2
Is OMA to blame for the Rotterdam Art Heist?
Could OMA's design of the Kunstahl Gallery be largely to blame for the art heist that occurred there this past Tuesday?
That's exactly what the Gallery's security expert, Ton Cremers, has suggested to Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (as reported by Dezeen) in his attempt to explain how the thieves made off with millions of dollars worth of Picassos, Monets, and more.
More about the Kunsthal (including plans) and why it's supposedly "awful to protect," after the break...
Vertical Loft / Shift Architecture Urbanism
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Architects: Shift architecture urbanism