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Nissan Qashqai skates in the Spaanse Polder
The new Nissan Qashqai marketing campaign has been skating through the streets – and now landed on a temp skatepark along the A20 at the Giessenbrug crossing in one of Rotterdam’s notoriously horrible...
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Beautiful Urban Terror Photography… Hans Wilschut
“Hotel” Antalya, 2005 – © Hans Wilschut While Rotterdam’s notorious Witte de With Straat is full of new exhibitions in time for the recent Museumnacht, one photo exhibit should not be missed. The...
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Instant City: The Rise of Dubai
On March 14 (2007) the Berlage Institute (Rotterdam) hosted two lectures with the title “Instant City: The Rise of Dubai”. Kees Christiaanse (Architect, Rotterdam) and George Katodrytis (Architect,...
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MIPIM Developers Conference… Suits, Alcohol, Yachts & some terrible other things
This past week I was at the MIPIM Developers Conference in Cannes, France representing a client. With my suit on, business cards ready and a dose of capitalist opportunism in tow, the pavilions and...
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Emscherpark – Industrial Heritage Done Right
Zeche Zollverein (photo by toms) Last weekend we went for a tour to the Emscherpark, which is meandering between Duisburg and Hamm, with an approximate length of 70 km (straight trajectory Duisburg –...
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bowling
it needs to be mentioned, but eikonographia anyway has again the best images of OMAs latest. And the best pairs too. dezeen has the full pressrelease with plans etc. pic via eikonographia
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Power, Optimism, and Social Consciousness
Tthe IABR (3rd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam) opened it’s doors for the public on Friday. The opening event in OMA’s Kunsthal listed Herman Herzberger, Edi Rama (mayor of Tirana) and...
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Al Manakh published by OMA
Al Manakh, a architectural guide for the Gulf area, has been published by OMA during the IDF. Read more at the IDF blog. If you don’t get the title of the book, read it again aloud.
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skating zaha
a friend of mine just pointed me to one of the latest events in the AccessAllAreas program: skating Zaha’s Phaeno in Wolfsburg. Unfortunately the video of a 50-50 down a 15 stair rail with a mean kink...
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Hiroki Matsuura at the chocolate factory
From May 30th to June 5th 2007 Hiroki Matsuura (maxwan a+u) held a workshop on “public space” in the famous chocolate factory “Red October” in Moscow. The workshop was accompanied by a lecture...
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Now Published: Power to the House – Powerhouse Company
Power To the House cover, source: Powerhouse Company The emerging Rotterdam architecture and urbanism office, The Powerhouse Company, has just published their first “autobiographical magazine”, Power...
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Associative Design @ Berlage
associative design III – berlage institute second year studio (requires quicktime, turn sound on) Last week I attended the presentations of the associative design 2nd year at the Berlage research...
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documenta interview marathon
german architecture & theory magazine arch+ put the first three videos or their interview marathon at the documenta online. yes, its the same format as the serpentine gallery event and yes, its...
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Claudia Strahl at the TU Munich
I recently held a lecture at the TU MUNICH, Department for Landscape Architecture and Public Space, on the topic of public space in London, presenting some of the work at maxwan architects in...
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AIR Foundation Conference
On Thursday, 11 Oct 2007, the AIR (Architecture Institute Rotterdam) hosts a conference about the state of Rotterdam’s architecture in an international context. Three young panelists have been invited...
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Al Manakh – A First Look
Cover, photo: Darrel Ronald Since first seeing the AMO Gulf Cities study presented at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, most of us have been anxious to hear more about the region, and get an...
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The Future of European Urbanism?
The TU Delft Faculty of Architecture will soon host the 4th International Seminar on Urbanism and Urbanization, with professors from around the the world discussing the theme of: The European...
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Competition: van Nelle & Spangen
Spangen Aerial Stichting Spangmaker announced a small open competition to link the Rotterdam neighbourhood of Spangen better to the van Nelle ‘Design Factory’ (a gem of modernism, worth a closer look...
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The Future of European Urbanism? Part 2
The Delft School of Design at TU Delft will hold another conference on urbanism following on the heels of the first. Permacity is an international conference on the 27th and 28th November in Delft....
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Al Manakh – Listen to the Koolhaas, Wigley & Bouman Debate @ NAi
Left to right: Mark Wigley, Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas The NAi (new website) hosted the book launch and discussion featuring Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman Monday night in Rotterdam...
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Plan 07 – City as Readymade
Painting action of ASTOC at the Buchheimer Weg (photo: Christian Diekmann) From 21st to 28th September the Forum for current architecture is launching the PLAN 07 in Cologne, Germany. It is the 9th...
View ArticleRotterdam’s Skyscrapers
For those who’ve missed the recent day of open doors, here are views from some of the highest of Rotterdam’s rooftops (all courtesy of dakvanrotterdam.nl, © 2006 – Roelof de Vries). Click on the...
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Sudapan Competition Launched
sudapan flyer Supersudaca, a befriended south-american think-tank has launched Sudapan – Endless(s)trips, an international competition about the urban potentials of mass-tourism in the Caribbean. The...
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The Dawn of Contemporary Dutch Architects
Y-Oevers Collage ( © unknown) Back in 1992, the young and aggressive Dutch architects that we know so well today, came together to work on a large project in Amsterdam. The Ruimtelijk Scenario...
View ArticleParlez-vous Francais? Don’t miss Métropolitains.
I recently discovered a radio program that is broadcast by Radio France Culture every Wednesday from 10 to 11 am. Called Métropolitains, this show existed since 1999 and is hosted by the architectural...
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Sin Embargo
sine embargo – con embargo Our friends from Supersudaca host an interesting workshop on tourism in post-castro Cuba in September. It’ll set you back 1000€, but scholarships to reduce the fee are...
View ArticleOne Land & Platform Paradise
FAST, a Amsterdam-based foundation showcasing and critically investigating spatial conditions of segregation invites to Ein Hawd (Israel): From the 28th of August to 7th September, we will finalize the...
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Responsive City Workshop
Gulensu – Almere Haven (© Ekim Tan) Workshop announcements come in packs. Here is the third one, which I’d like to recommend especially. The INTI supported masterclass compares highly regulated...
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ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam – Space and Place
Experimenta Design is an existing festival from Lisbon that has been invited to Amsterdam for the first time starting this September (2008). With a great line-up of events and conferences, the...
View Article11th Venice Architecture Biennale: The Making of
I was also in Venice for the inauguration of the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale. Unlike the other members of Dysturb, this was the fourth time I have attended the opening of the biennale (in 2002,...
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Here Comes The Sun
PS10 solar power tower I’ve watched a highly interesting documentary on the prospects of solar power today. Now an english version is available on youtube: Also highly interesting: The Car of the...
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Complexity in American Commercial Space
“A store in Las Vegas offers groceries, slot machines and voting terminals side by side. Early voting has proved popular in Nevada”. © Isaac Brekken for The New York Times I am struck by this image by...
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China According to China
MovingCities.org has published the fith and last part of a wonderful documentary on China. Each part is about 6 minutes and covers different themes. The documentary is a mix of very quiet, long shots...
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Action In The City
Exhibition Entrance; Photo: Darrel Ronald A new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Actions: What You Can Do With The City, explores the thousands of examples around the globe of...
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Europan Competition Starts Now
Europan 10 launched Indeed, the ultimate aim of the European vision of the city is to make society, in other words to bring together people of all conditions and origins. However, the dominant trend...
View ArticleAl Manakh Second Edition
Abu Dhabi’s Planning Council and the Dutch Architecture Institute agreed a few days ago to cooperate on delivering the second volume of Al Manakh. As in the last issue, OMA will be involved in the...
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Open Street Map
Visualisation of OSM edits in 2008 (by ItoWorld) I’d like to point the german-speaking among you to the ChaosRadio Podcast Issue on Open Street Map. The Open Street Map (wikipedia entry) project is a...
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Google Maps NL – Street View!
Arcam Architecture Centre, Amsterdam Google Maps recently updated various cities within Europe, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Of course, Europe being much more dense, has...
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Hunch 12: Bureaucracy – Launch Event
After a couple years without publishing, the latest issue of Hunch #12 will be relaunched in collaboration with NAi Publishers at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam. The event takes place this coming...
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Is Almere There Yet?
NL’s ugliest place? (photo: Ekim Tan) Lately the readers of Volkskrant selected 30 year old Almere the ugliest place in the Netherlands; average Dutch associates Almere with bourgeois, boredom and...
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Complexity Theory Conference @ TU Delft
Complexity Theories have come of Age Don’t let the poster mislead you! TU Delft’s U-Lab comes up with a daring conference breaking from its single-disciplinary conservatism. During 3 days from...
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GIS 2.0 Symposium
Analysis of spatial distribution of specific population groups (Cooperation with the city Biberach a.d Riß) The Planungsnetzwerk geo-Innovation of the University of Karlsruhe is organizing its second...
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Berlage 1st Year Studios Final Review
Ningbo Students tweaking their Presentation (photo: Thomas Stellmach) The Berlage Institute is holding their final reviews for the first year studios today, from 10 to 21:30 (CEST). If you are quick,...
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