Tag Rotterdam

20-06-2016

Observatorium and the culture of water

Observatorium, the Dutch artists' collective - whose member Andre Dekker is scientific director of “The City and the Water”, workshop organised by DESTeC (University of Pisa) in Seravezza, Versilia - has been working for decades on transforming places with close ties to water.

16-06-2016

The City and The Water, Versilia Summer School with Andre Dekker

A workshop with a stand-out artistic and scientific director, Andre Dekker from Rotterdam-based Dutch collective Observatorium with twenty years' experience in land transformation.

15-06-2016

MVRDV Glass office 133 Wai Yip Street Hong Kong

MVRDV has transformed number 133 Wai Yip Street, Hong Kong into a completely transparent office building. The architects stripped the building down to its primary structure and left it in view, then used glass to make all the furniture and even equipment such as computers and speakers.

13-06-2016

Hofman Dujardin for Eneco: sustainable headquarters

Eneco is a renewable energy company which now has perfectly sustainable headquarters: a 14-storey building in Rotterdam designed by Dutch architects Hofman Dujardin with Fokkema&Partners.

25-05-2016

The City and The Water. Walk-through with Andre Dekker.

Livegreenblog and Floornature continue their partnership with DESTeC (Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering), University of Pisa for the Summer School.

16-05-2016

Zandwacht by Observatorium in Rotterdam

Rotterdam-based artists’ collective Observatorium has created the Zandwacht, an installation, that marks the completion of the major land reclamation project - Maasvlakte 2 - in Rotterdam.

06-05-2016

New Dutch architecture

From MVRDV’s Crystal House in Amsterdam to Kaan Architecten’s Supreme Court of The Hague, residential projects and innovative research: here is an overview of some of the most recent architectural projects built in the Netherlands recently discussed in Floornature.