Tag Rotterdam

24-09-2020

Rotterdam by bike, from countryside to canals

The city of Rotterdam is known for its harbour and its architecture, especially from the post-war period and today’s famous icons, from the Erasmus Bridge to the station and the Markthal, to name but a few. But in no time at all, you can ride your bike out of the city, through the green countryside with its picturesque canals and farms.

14-08-2020

Boijmans Ahoy Drive-Thru Museum in Rotterdam

The Boijmans Van Beuningen museum and Rotterdam Ahoy event location have joined forces in a unique partnership for an exhibition to explore from an electric car. You can drive through Rotterdam Ahoy’s 10,000 m2 Hall 1 and see more than fifty high-profile artworks from the Boijmans Van Beuningen collection; for the next seven years, the museum will be closed for restoration and consolidation work.

22-06-2020

MVRDV converts an office into Villa Stardust home in Rotterdam

Addition of a central patio with a garden is the strong point of this recent project by MVRDV bringing new life to a former commercial building. The highly sustainable project is inspired by the principles of the circular economy and by the concept of the riad, a form of spontaneous traditional Moroccan residential architecture often with two or more stories, with the rooms arranged around inner courtyards and gardens.

23-03-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH MVRDV

“Innovative, realistic and remarkable architecture for a changing world”, - MVRDV

21-01-2020

LEVENSLICHT, an installation by Studio Roosegaarde to commemorate Shoah

To mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of German Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz, the international symbol of the Holocaust - or Shoah - a national artwork has been specially created for the occasion in the Netherlands: Levenslicht, by the artist Daan Roosegaarde.

17-10-2019

Industrial architecture in Rotterdam, the waterworks

Rotterdam is a Mecca for fans of contemporary architecture, with impressive buildings and landmarks. But this Dutch city hides some of its oldest treasures, magnificent examples of industrial architecture that include the De Esch waterworks, turned into a residential zone in the 1970s.