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Netherlands, Rotterdam, Kop van Zuid, Wilhelminapier, Construction site of De Rotterdam (uncut) ( #79 of the Urban Frontiers set )
Shot at the Wilhelminapier, the economic center of the Kop van Zuid.
The Kop van Zuid is an urban restructuring project in progress which has converted major parts of the old harbour area on the South bank of the Maas (with its defunct ports, warehouses and railway heads) into a integrated living , recreative and commercial service quarter. It’s comparable with the Docklands in London and the waterfront re-developments in Barcelona and New York.
Prominently on display here is the construction site of De Rotterdam, a very large Rem Koolhaas (OMA) desgned array of three linked highrises. Construction was started in 2010. The edifice will have 41 floors and a floorsapce of approximately 160,000 square meters. The height: will be 149 meters.
Its massive presence will dominate the sky line of Kop van Zuid - perhaps too much so (check out the link further down this text).
The start of the construction was a 1 year late beacause of the economic crisis - the floorspace demand plummeted dramatically on the already oversaturated office space market. The municipality stepped in to rescue the project 'cause it was deemed of strategical importance to the Kop van Zuid (and it probably is). The rescue was the decision to rent a considerable amount of the office space - after completion of the building a substantial part of Rotterdam's civil servants work force will move to 'De Rotterdam'.
'De Rotterdam' won't be only about offices, apartments, a hotel, conference facilities, a gym, shops, restaurants and cafe will be created too. The resulting vertical density has inspired the project developers to coin and market it as a 'Vertical city'. A not higly inspired name - the Montevideo highrise (Mecanoo/Francien Houben) - the highrise with the M on top in the pic ) was introduced the same way ;-)
Web info about De Rotterdam is: here
The web info the builder (Züblin Nederland) provides is here.
The web info of the tower crane supplier Wolffkran is here.
Before construction started there was a parking lot on this site.
Building the perfect beats was the first solo album of Don Henley. The most well known track of this album is: here
Shot during a low light walk with Leun
My opinion of Paul Day’s giant Meeting Place statue at St. Pancras International remains unchanged: I regard the embracing lovers as a singular piece of kitsch. I expressed my opinions of it in one of my earliest Flickr uploads, from 2008.
But in my eagerness to shun the work, I had ignored the frieze at the base of the statue. In this segment, Paul Day pays tribute to the workers who built the Channel Tunnel that links St. Pancras International with Continental Europe, as well as those who toiled in transforming St. Pancras into today’s modern station. This was Britain’s largest civil engineering project, that lasted from 2004 to 2007.
Construction workers have always fascinated me. Working in all kinds of weather and at heights that make me sick just to think of how high. The geometric lines and shapes really lend themselves to a papercut and I hope that this will be an ongoing series of papercuts of Men at work.
Isn't there a bit of it in everything?
Doesn't it make life a bit more exciting, the prospect of it?
Times Square,
New York.
(Taken with 3G iPhone)
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When I asked this construction worker if I could borrow his feet for my Feet Friday picture, I should have taken a pic of the look on his face!
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Europe, Portugal, Porto, Ribeira, Douro, Vila noa de gaia, vernacular archtecture, roofs, metal clad roofs, construction workers (uncut)
Most cities of Portugal are often gloriously draped over the hills. And you got to love it - the undulating urbanization that's the result of it. Its irregular pattern and delightful vernacular architecture often dates back to the midde ages.
And there are a number of miradores (inner city viewing points). This pic was taken from one of them. The metal (zinc) clad roof and the construction workers using reinforced concrete gave it an almost industrial feel.
(C), Mohammed Arifur Rahman Chowdhury, 2012
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One last major project for the year involved adding new maintenance free fascia and soffits to the house. Having some handsome young construction workers doing the job was a side bonus!
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One last major project for the year involved adding new maintenance free fascia and soffits to the house. Having some handsome young construction workers doing the job was a side bonus!
I took this photo at Paradise Beach less than one month after hurricane Wilma struck the island of Cozumel with a direct hit. Nails, concrete, broken glass, and construction debris littered a beach that is normally sugar white sand.
Since the economy of Cozumel is based on tourism, the rush was on to get the island back up and running for tourists...perhaps too soon. The sounds of hammers, chainsaws, and construction workers made a normally tranquil beach quite loud.
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This is the second in a series of Men at Work. Those geometric lines are captivating to me and although this papercut is so time consuming----I still have to find the time to do it. I hope you like it.