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CENTRAL LIBRARY ROTTERDAM 1983 | Open
Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema
In 1977, a competition is held for a new library. Two architects from Rotterdam fight to get the commission and the credit: Carel Weeber and Jaap Bakema. Bakema’s winning design is “open, inviting, centrally located and accessible to everyone.”
It’s a choice between an open, inviting building that would assimilate the city, as Bakema suggests, or the reverse, as in Weeber’s design, a closed building that would separate itself entirely from the city. The fuss that surrounds this competition has more to do with mutual intrigue, however. The choice for Bakema’s design is said to have been inspired by the rancour of a jury member, Aldo van Eyck, towards Carel Weeber, with whom he had previously clashed at the TH Delft (now Delft University of Technology). It remains a matter of speculation whether this is indeed the case, but Bakema wins anyway, and not Weeber.
The building is cube-shaped, with one corner cut off diagonally, under which is a glass ‘cascade’ housing the escalators that connect the six floors. The other facades consist of white parapets and glass strips. The yellow-painted round pipes for the air conditioning are a striking feature. Critics say that these pipes were copied from the Centre Pompidou in Paris and that the glass ‘cascade’ was used previously by James Stirling at a university library in Cambridge.
The location of the building next to the market, the extensive use of glass and the positioning of the reading room, which juts out from the rest of the building, help to create an “open, inviting, centrally located building that is accessible to everyone.” Another feature that helps to achieve this is the use of the hall, which housed the central lending counter, an information centre and a few accommodating functions.
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This is cool : Het Geluid van Nederland is a website containing more than 2000 sound samples from the Netherlands with a free license. Here you find a soundscape machine by Hay Kranen.
/ Hay Kranen soundscape music sound environment history archive api collage Dutch The Netherlands art samples sample = the tags / Jul 5 th Thu = the permalink. / 365dagenkunst.nl = the source / /
I can’t wait to see the green corroded version.
From the great Tumblr by Olaf Wit.
Check out Joost Olsthoorn’s amazing copper bike.
/ copper coorosion bike bicycle Track cycling track bike fixie fixed gear Joost Olsthoorn design white WIT wit industries Dutch The Netherlands = the tags / Jun 26 th Tue = the permalink. / = the source / reblogged from : witindustries : WIT INDUSTRIES blog /
Gebootje
(cc) Remko Siemerink, 2012
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pretty weird … weird pretty
Thanks Rachel Sender-Wharmby.
src: facebook-link
/ Architecture photography Rachel Sender Rachel Sender-Wharmby weird haha brickwork The Netherlands dutch by friends = the tags / May 29 th Tue = the permalink. / facebook.com = the source / /
Dirk van der Kooij makes this, with a robot !
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Wow! Thanks Bas.
The image is great too:
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At The Incredible Machine they know how to box their skills!
I LOVE the machine!
More: the-incredible-machine.com/hello-ikea
/ The Incredible Machine by friends wow haha IKEA Upplever interactive interaction design product Industrial Design dutch The Netherlands Rotterdam firm awesome LEGO = the tags / May 16 th Wed = the permalink. / the-incredible-machine.com = the source / /
De man en zijn fiets.
/ Man and his bicycle.
… is ook een boek van Wilfried de Jong.
… is also a book by Wilfried de Jong.
This picture is by and © Marc from Amsterdamize, 2012.
Check out the rest of the set too!
/ Wit Olaf by friends bicyle cycling fix fixie fixed gear Amsterdam The Netherlands wow bling blue design Wilfried de Jong book fiets photography = the tags / May 14 th Mon = the permalink. / Flickr / amsterdamize = the source / /
“Making it easier. Not harder.”
2012, Amsterdam-Zuid, The Netherlands.
/ by me Remko Siemerink picture design trash junk litter street Amsterdam Dutch The Netherlands Holland Amsterdam-Zuid easier not harder 2012 = the tags / May 13 th Sun = the permalink. / = the source / /
Rotterdam! Nice shot Ossip.
© 2012 Ossip van Duivenbode
/ Architecture rotterdam The Netherlands holland Ossip van Duivenbode modernism = the tags / Apr 12 th Thu = the permalink. / ossip-architectuurfotografie.nl = the source / /
Artbomb at Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Picture by me.
ARTBOMB – A GROWING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN AN ACTION TO SAVE THE ARTS
Express the value of art! Show your support for culture!
On Friday the 24th June at noon local time, people and organisation join this initiative in shrouding art locations across the world in coloured smoke. This visual act will be a sign of resistance against the growing disdain for the arts within societies and governments worldwide, and a sign of support for colleagues who face major cutbacks. Now is the time to act to show your appreciation and the necessity of the arts!
/ protest septemberstaking Waag Society Waag Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam art arts The Netherlands = the tags / Jun 24 th Fri = the permalink. / = the source / /
Drawing by unknown artist. Found at Café Tilt, Utrecht, The Netherlands
/ art drawing illustration found Tilt Utrecht The Netherlands Dutch = the tags / May 19 th Thu = the permalink. / = the source / /
Zeeland, The Netherlands is listed too, but I like this pointillist view from Garden City, Kansas, best. It was taken by the USGS’ Landsat 7 satellite on Sept. 25, 2000 and is a false-color composite made using data from near infrared, red and green wavelengths and sharpened with a panchromatic sensor. The red areas actually represent the greenest vegetation. Bare soil or dead vegetation ranges from white to green or brown.
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Vroeger, toen alles beter was. Zelfs in Rotterdam.
src: http://www.flickr.com/photos/4kleuren/5421314024/in/set-72157624236417037/
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