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Roof of Markthal / Market Hall, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Roof of the Market Hall (Markthal), a residential- and office building with a market hall underneath the "horse-shoe" which was designed by MVRDV and completed in October 2014. Inside of the building the walls are painted in striking colors with artwork by Arno Coenen showing huge size fruits, vegetables, seeds, fish, flowers and insects. The work was made using digital 3D-techniques. This enormous file of 1,47 terabytes needed special servers, these are also used by Pixar Studios for making animated movies. The digital 3D-animation was separated in 4000 pieces and then printed on to steel. Some call it The largest artwork in the world or The Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam.

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Uploaded on September 26, 2015
Taken on September 25, 2015