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10 Feb 2009

Rotterdam Tall Buildings Debate

Dutch text:

wo 10 Feb
Debat
20.00 uur
De Unie

Kantelend in het tegenlicht
In de moderne city branding is het hoge gebouw het icoon van stedelijkheid. De Britse hoogleraar David Dunster is gespecialiseerd in de architectuur van de grote stad en bevraagt Jan Willem van Kuilenburg en Han van den Born op hun standpunten.

Euromast tower, taken in May 2002:

photograph : Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

English text:

Lecture 10 Feb, 20.00 – De Unie – Rotterdam http://airfoundation.nl/

Public Lecture (English spoken) on Rotterdam tall buildings and icons by Jan Willem van Kuilenburg of Monolab.

Other speakers are Han van den Born of KCAP who will speak about the Red Apple and Prof. David Dunster of Liverpool School of Architecture who will moderate.

Monolab will contribute with a critique on Rotterdam and will present an instrument to review tall buildings.

This instrument is meant to operate in three directions:

1. as an auto-critical reference and bridge to architecture for urban designers, in order to overcome the absence of a coherent urban framework in Rotterdam,

2. as a pro-active mind frame for designers to improve architectural design of tall buildings, and

3. as a tool to reduce subjectivity in architectural critique.

Tall Buildings discussion organised by Hans van der Heijden of biqstad

Rotterdam Tall Buildings Debate information from Monolab

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe

Rotterdam Buildings

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Aerial photograph of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen © Ossip van Duivenbode
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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World’s largest Floating Office Building, Rijnhaven harbor
Architecture: Powerhouse Company

photo : Sebastian van Damme
World’s largest Floating Office Building