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Over the years I've seen many photos of the Piet Blom Cube Houses in Rotterdam, many of them have been a variation from this view. This is my attempt to create something a little different with a fisheye photo of the iconic Rotterdam Cube Houses.
I should add that I was inspired by the work of one of my long time Flickr contacts, Paul Brouns. If you don't know his work then I'd urge you to take a look at his flickr account : www.flickr.com/people/brouns/
Click here to see more of my shots from Rotterdam :
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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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The Cube Houses by Piet Blom are one of the most famous Rotterdam landmarks.
This is a new version of one of my favourite 'flipped' shots created for this years CIOB 'Art of Building' photo competition. The original version was slightly darker and over saturated so I took the opportunity to tweak it a bit.
Click here to see more of my shots from Rotterdam :
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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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“The Dom Tower (Dutch: Domtoren 'Cathedral Tower') of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, at 112.32 metres in height. It is considered the symbol of Utrecht. The tower was part of St. Martin's Cathedral, also known as the Dom Church, and was built between 1321 and 1382, to a design by John of Hainaut. The cathedral was never fully completed due to lack of money. Since the unfinished nave collapsed in 1674, the Dom tower has been a freestanding tower. The tower stands at the spot where the city of Utrecht originated almost 2,000 years ago.
Design and construction
Its construction led preacher Geert Groote to protest against the vanity of such an immense project, suggesting it was too tall, too expensive and all but aesthetic.
The tower consists of two square blocks, topped by a much lighter lantern. One of the most striking features is the absence of visible buttresses. Upon completion in 1382 the tower stood 109 metres tall. However the height was increased during the restorations in 1910, to its present height of 112.5 metres.
The Dom tower was a multifunctional building. In addition to being a belfry, it contained a private chapel of the Bishop of Utrecht on the first floor. It also served as a watchtower; the tower guard was housed on the second floor of the lower square block.”
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Alblasserwaard late december 2021, The Netherlands
History
Western border of the Alblasserwaard in 1866. Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and Dordrecht are west of the area, on the other side of the Noord river. Alblasserdam and Papendrecht are in the Alblasserwaard.
Dike burst near Papendrecht during the North Sea flood of 1953
The first human inhabitants of the Alblasserwaard settled there after the last Ice Age, around 10.000 years ago. The ice had not reached the area itself, but eolian deposits created high points in the wet environment. These high points were places where hunter-gatherers settled, as archaeological investigations in the area have shown.
During the Middle Ages several canals and dikes were created to reclaim the land. The last part was endiked in the second half of the 14th century, following the permanent flooding of Woude and Donkersloot.[1] Yet numerous floods continued to happen throughout the history of the area, as it is bound by rivers on all sides.
During World War II the Bombing of Rotterdam also damaged the Alblasserwaard, when both the village center of Alblasserdam and a part of Papendrecht were hit by German bombs.
It was flooded during the North Sea flood of 1953.
Geography and population
The Alblasserwaard is bordered by rivers on all sides. To the north is the Lek, to the west runs the Noord and to the south the river Merwede. On the east side are the Merwede-Kanaal, the Linge and the Oude Zederik, together forming the boundary with Vijfheerenlanden. De village Kinderdijk, well known from its windmills, is located at the northwest corner of the Alblasserwaard, where the Noord and the Lek joins.
Most of the Alblasserwaard is rural, but partially under the influence of the cities Rotterdam and Dordrecht on the borders of the area, the south and west are urbanized. The largest cities in the Alblasserwaard are Gorinchem, with 35,000 inhabitants, and Papendrecht with slightly over 30,000 people. Both are on the southern borders of the Alblasserwaard.
Somewhat reminiscent of some of the Calatrava bridges the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam proved a very photogenic subject for these shots taken just after sunrise.
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From Wikipedia : "Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan".
The southernmost span of the bridge has an 89-metre-long (292 ft) bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world."
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The Cube Houses in Rotterdam are much photographed and as a result I wanted to try and get some different shots as well as the more obvious ones.
Click here to see more of my shots from Rotterdam :
www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157700872931264
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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Akkerstraat 08/02/2021 15h58
The day after the blizzard named Darcy in BeDo (Betondorp) on the corner of the Akkerstraat and Veeteeltstraat. The Akkerstraat is one of the few streets with a curve around Brink, the center of this neighbourhood.
(album with all the photos of Darcy blizzard, the frost period, drifting snow, people in the snow, cars in the snow, transport and more)
Betondorp
Betondorp (popular abbreviated to BeDo) is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was built in the 1920s as an experiment in building affordable housing with new, cheap building materials, chiefly concrete. The name translates as 'Concrete Village'. The houses are built in a sober, minimalist form of Art Deco.
Betondorp is located in the Watergraafsmeer neighbourhood. Famous Dutch footballer Johan Cruijff was born and raised in Betondorp. In his teens he joined Ajax, his hometown club that had their stadium and training ground right across from where he grew up. Another famous Betondorp native is Dutch writer Gerard Reve who based the setting of his most famous novel, De Avonden, on Betondorp.
[ Source & more Info: wikipedia - Betondorp ]
Photo "Explored" on 12/02/2021, rank # 463
Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands
On this estate there is a privately owned museum, build in 2013.
It houses the biggest private art collection of the Netherlands
Sony A7 modified for infrared, 720nm
Laowa 10-18mm/4.5
On the river Amstel, opposite the Groenburgwal, center of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The river Amstel is name giver to Amsterdam, meaning dam in river Amstel.
Sony A7 modified for infrared, 720nm
Laowa 10-18mm/4.5
Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Oudezijds Achterburgwal is part of the red light district in Amsterdam.
To take this photo with almost no people i had to go out in the very early hours.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Wallen
Sony A7 modified for infrared, 720nm
Laowa 10-18mm/4.5
Spiegelgracht, 17th century, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sony A7 modified for infrared, 720nm
Laowa 10-18mm/4.5
Zutphen, founded by the Franks during Roman times, has been inhabited for about 1700 years. Zutphen is a Hanseatic town, making it one of Holland’s oldest towns, which can still be seen in its great many historic and cultural highlights. With over 450 national monuments, Zutphen is a unique city in Holland.