I thought these chairs in a lecture hall space of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam made for a colourful abstract.
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From Wikipedia : "The Kunsthal is a museum in Rotterdam, which opened in 1992.
The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Entrance to the Kunsthal is from the Westzeedijk. The building was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.
The Kunsthal has no permanent collection, but organises a wide range of temporary exhibits. The large space available 3,300 m2 (36,000 sq ft) allows various exhibits in parallel. The range of exhibitions presented at the Kunsthal ranges from 20th century masters to current contemporary art movements."
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Just when you thought I'd exhausted the Blaak 8 building as a subject......... Here I've taken my previously uploaded distorted shot and given it a rotational flip.
This kind of shot is an idea I'm playing with as I start to turn my attention to next years Oxfordshire Artweeks exhibition......
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From the archello.com/project/offices-blaak-8 website : "The structure of a tree with its natural constructional logic, has been the inspiration for the facade design. At the top, where the forces are relatively small, the tree exists of thin twigs. At the bottom, where the forces from the entire crown come together and must be carried, the trunk of the tree looks broad and strong. It is this natural structure that has served as inspiration for the load-bearing facade of Blaak 8. On the lower floors heavy piers reflect the 'tree-trunks' which extend upwardly branching out into smaller piers that reflect the 'tree-tops'. The tower owes its stability to this diagonal fluttering 'branches'. The unconventional facade structure ensures the building to be experienced as abstract from various viewpoints, and from other positions the tree structure to be clearly visible."
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This shot of a skylight over the tunnel under the Centraal Station in Rotterdam is probably one of my favourites taken last year, not least as it required split second timing to get a person perfectly framed within the central square.
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From Wikipeda : "Rotterdam Centraal is the main railway station of the city Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The station received an average of 110,000 passengers daily in 2007. The current station building, located at Station Square, was officially opened in March 2014. "
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For anyone that knows the Piet Blom architectural icon that is the Rotterdam Cube Houses I'm sure you'll agree it's pretty hard to resist taking this shot no matter how many versions of it you've seen before......
Given it's quite hard to get a 'different' shot to everyone else I concentrated on getting the best version of this view I could. Even so I feel maybe it needs a (photoshopped ?) plane flying through the centre of the space.
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From Wikipedia "Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level, since its main purpose is to optimise the space inside. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. The central idea of the cube houses around the world is mainly optimizing the space, as a house, to a better distribution of the rooms inside."
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A flipped version of my previous photo of Rainbow Passage, created by dutch artist Peter Struycken.
This installation at the Netherlands Architecture Institute is a 2008 light installation controlled by a computer program that changes the displayed colours every ten minutes using red, green and blue lamps.
Unsurprisingly it seemed a popular hang out for teenagers so quite a bit of patience was required to get some shots without too many people in them.
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From Wikipedia : "The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, comprising a museum, an archive plus library, and a platform for lectures and debates. The NAI was established in 1988 and has been based in Rotterdam since 1993.
The NAI is a private organisation with a government brief, which is to manage the collection of archives that document the history of Dutch architecture. Moreover, as a sector institute for architecture it is also tasked with supporting the professional field. The building also houses a bookshop and a cafe.......
In 1988, a competition was held among six architects to find an architect for a new building. These were: Jo Coenen, Rem Koolhaas, Benthem Crouwel Architekten, Wim Quist, Luigi Snozzi and Ralph Erskine. Koolhaas’s design was the favourite among the specialist press and was also favoured by Riek Bakker, the director of Rotterdam’s Department of Urban Development. However, the NAI awarded Jo Coenen the commission, the decisive factors being the blending of the design into the surroundings and the references to the history of architecture.
After an intensive period of renovation, the NAI opened its doors on 1 July 2011. The most salient part of the renovation was moving the entrance to the pond level. The restaurant was extended. An exhibition room and additional space for educational activities were also added. At the site of the original entrance is now the DoeDek, a hands-on area where visitors can experiment with Lego, large blocks and cut-outs. As the original building’s architect, Jo Coenen was also responsible for its renovation."
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