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Botlek, Rotterdam industrial area, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
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Maasvlakte, Rotterdam industrial area, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
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Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Zomerrrhofkwartier, ZOHO, Broeinest, Stalenbieb (sample library). Kitchen, Staff (slightly cut)
Also shot in the Stalenbieb of the Broeinest Rotterdam. In this specific spot, the samples were suspended from a large square metal industrial frame. One of the samples on display was a small mirror - it reflected the kitchen/catering area of the building.
More about the Broeinest and its context is with the previous post: here
Beatrixkwartier, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands.
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Station and viaduct for Randstad-rail by Zwarts & Jansma Architecten.
charming late may morning at the banks of delfshavense schie channel in rotterdam, zuid holland, netherlands
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Katendrecht, De Groene Kaap, Staircase (slightly cut from B)
At the time, labourers of the now fully redeveloped Katendrecht' Hanno freight terminal would be hard-pressed to imagine that some 30 years later, an extensive array of residential buildings would be created on the site.
About de Groene Kaap: 450 rental and owner-occupied homes in an array of buildings connected by courtyards, walkways and roof gardens. It was designed by Bureau Massa and built n 2021.
It is clear, Katendrecht is undergoing a massive redevelopment. after the Rotterdam harbour activities of the quarter were moved to the outer ring of the Rotterdam agglomeration
Shot towards towards the central courtyard.
This is number 23 of the 7 Artisans 7,5 mm f/2,8 fisheye album and 112 of Katendrecht .
golder afternoon light at the white windmill near the village of het woudt, zuid holland, netherlands
MARINA L (IMO: 9431331) is a Container Ship and is sailing under the flag of Antigua Barbuda. Her length overall (LOA) is 160.84 meters and her width is 25.41 meters.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Erasmus bridge cables, De Rotterdam (uncut).
Last Friday Rotterdam temporally lost its 'Manhattan aan de Maas' high rise profile due to mist. Walking home after a meeting felt strange and retro due to that. And is was a delightful visual experience too.
Displayed here are the cables (tuien) of Ben van Berkel's Erasmus bridge and Rem Koolhaas' 'De Rotterdam' behind them. I dig the rhythm of the building masses and their textures - they prevent this largest (not the tallest, mind you) building in Holland from looking like a threatening monolith.
Shot from the Leuvehaven.
De Rotterdam isn't ready yet so I can still add it to the set about the construction of it: Building the perfect beast. And because it's one of the defining elements of the Kop van Zuid it's part of the Urban Frontiers set too.
Botlek, Rotterdam industrial area, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
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Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, West Kruiskade, Chinese New Year celebration, Dragon operators (uncut)
In Asia and urban centres with a sizeable Chinese population in the rest of the world, like Rotterdam, the Chinese New Year, or more general, Lunar New Year is celebrated.
It’s a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. This year the Year of the Pig was initiated. During last Saturday’s festival, the ‘street parade’ (organised on the West Kruiskade) attracted lots of attention. The ‘Lion’s dance’ and the ‘Dragon’s dance’were performed.
Shown here is the dragon dance. Chinese dragons are a symbol of China's culture, and they are believed to bring good luck to people, therefore the longer the dragon in the dance, the more success it will bring to the community. The dragons are believed to possess qualities that include high power, dignity, fertility, wisdom and auspiciousness. The appearance of a dragon is both fearsome and bold but it has a benevolent disposition, and it was an emblem to represent imperial authority. The movements in a performance traditionally symbolise historical roles of dragons demonstrating power and dignity.”
Source: mainly Wikipedia.
Making epic manoeuvres with a giant dragon is no mean feat. But the operators were dedicated and had great fun.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Zomerrrhofkwartier, ZOHO, Broeinest, Stalenbieb (sample library)
In the characteristic blue-white ZOHO building in the Zomerhofkwartier, the Broeinest Rotterdam is situated. It's a materials library and meeting place for (interior) architects and designers. Producers, brands and materials are brought together. There’s also a Broeinest in Eindhoven.
This is the story about the context, the Zomerhofkwartier quarter. It’s a part of the the Agniese buurt in Rotterdam Noord and tarted its life as a downtrodden industrial / business zone targeted for demolition and total redevelopment. The local social housing corporation ‘Havensteder’ bought most of the buildings for it. But in the end had to give up on the plan. The major reason was that after the financial mishaps / mismanagement of some housings corporations (spectacular example: Vestia (went bankrupt because of derivates) and the neo-conservative wave that swept over the land, legislation changed and social housing corporations were forced to stick to their core business – social housing - and drop other activities. And thru this 'Havensteder' was stuck with the commercial buildings.
A new plan was needed. Together with the municipality of Rotterdam, the local ‘bewonersorganisatie’ using Asset based community development here and some creative young entrepreneurs the buildings were turned into creative incubators and are the home of artists, artisans, urbanists, architects and a number of social projects (for instance Start up Noord here.
Another buildings is the ‘Gele gebouw (the place where the young professional ‘citymakers’ (stadsmakers) reside). Together with the adjacent Hofbogen (the inner city part of the former Hofpleinlijn (the former rail link between Rotterdam Hofplein and The Hague) a very lively quarter has been created with its own vibe.
ZOHO - What was planned to be a ‘classic’ top-down redevelopment project became a bottom-up ongoing revitalization program.
But there are still dark clouds on the horizon. Havensteder seems to have changed its plans again and intends to sell the ZOHO buildings without giving the current tennants neither the chance to buy them nor offering them a long term lease, threating to end the 'slow urbanism' coalition.
Checkout the website of the Broeinest:
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Kop van Zuid, Laan op Zuid, Marathon Rotterdam, NOS Motor camera, rider and videographer (very slightly cropped from all sides)
The Rotterdam Marathon is full of stories. About the amateurs who after long and strenuous training entered it for the first time or tried to to better there times, about their suffering, about the pro-athletes also trying to best their personal records and perform the way the race direction envisions it. About replenishment, the planning of it and the rules that guide it. It's all in my Rotterdam Marathon album. In this one, # 33, I focussed on the media and the acrobatics of the videographer.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Katendrecht, Redevelopment site of Fenx 1, Tower cranes (cropped from T)
Before returning to the Sotavenro travelogue some Rotterdam shots.
The first one is this littie study in black and white, captured at the redevelopment site of the Fenix 1 warehouse.
The tower cranes signify that the redevelopment (more about this context: here and in the first comment) will entail a very radical transformation: most of the old structure is teared down or reduced to its reinforced concrete skeleton and will serve as an hardly visible base of a high rise (mixed used: cultural and housing functions).
Number 164 of the Urban Frontiers album, exploring the cities expansion through the appropriation of the open countryside, the city's own green spaces and the conversion of the former industry or habour spaces, here.
Overblaak, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
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Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, 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. Blom's basic idea to built on columns, in which case the space under the buildings could remain public, was inspired by Le Corbusier. The structuralist 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. Some call it the closest a building ever came to the works of Piet Mondrian.
evening skyline of rotterdam with the lights of rotterdam-the hague airport and few completely ignorant sheep grazing on polder. from the dike on berkelsche zweth near oude leede, zuid holland, netherlands
Geschiedenis
Deze fraaie wipwatermolen staat circa 1,5 km. ten zuiden van Nieuwpoort en bemaalde voorheen met twee andere molens de polder Langerak van 1050 ha.
In 1253 voerde deze polder zijn overtollig water via de nog aanwezige inlaatsluis in Nieuwpoort af naar de Lek. In 1281 kreeg de polder toestemming de afwatering in zuidelijke richting te verplaatsen naar de Smoutjesvliet, een parallel aan de Provinciale Weg lopende boezem van waterschap de Overwaard. Dit betekende dat de Nieuwpoortse Vliet naar het zuiden toe verlengd moest worden.
Midden 17e eeuw waren er drie wipwatermolens in de polder Langerak: de Westermolen, de Oostermolen en de Broekmolen, die afbrandde tijdens een zware storm in 1809 toen het wiekenkruis op hol sloeg. De bouw van een nieuwe achtkante Oostermolen werd bekostigd door particulieren, waarvoor dertien obligaties van elk 1.000 gulden werden uitgeschreven. In mei 1940 werd deze poldermolen door een Duits gevechtsvliegtuig volledig in de as gelegd. Op de plaats van de gesloopte Oostermolen verrees in 1949 een dieselgemaal met het oude molenscheprad. In 1952 werd er een machinistenwoning bij gebouwd.
In 1978, toen een nieuw elektrisch vijzelgemaal in werking werd gesteld, werd de Westermolen buiten gebruik gesteld. Bij de Westermolen zijn drie generaties bemaling geconcentreerd: windkracht, diesel- en elektrische aandrijving.
De Westermolen dateert uit 1652 en is opgebouwd met de bovenas, roeden, spil en aandrijving van zijn voorganger. De nieuwe wipmolen moest binnen drie maanden maalvaardig worden opgeleverd voor 1.930 gulden. Volgens het bestek werd in het bovenhuis een bedstee geplaatst. In het onderwiel staat het jaartal 1828 ingehakt. In 1857 werden de waterlopen vernieuwd van het 5,5 m hoge en 0,52 m brede scheprad met een opvoerhoogte van 1 m. In 1879 en 1882 werden ijzeren Pot-roeden aangebracht met een vlucht van 24,80 m, waarmee de wipmolen maalde.
Klaas de Groot was tussen 1919 en 1974 beroepsmolenaar en betrok in 1953 de nabijgelegen machinistenwoning. Nadat de koningsspil in 1967 brak, werd op het nieuwe exemplaar ter herrinnering dat jaartal aangebracht. In 1983/84 werden de opbouw van het bovenhuis, kap en staart, evenals het metselwerk van de waterlopen vernieuwd. Op de nieuwe windvaan staan de letters WM. De letters JOG en 1984 in de nieuwe borstnaald herinneren aan de door molenmaker v/h J. de Gelder uitgevoerde restauratie. Vanaf 1977 verhuurt de regionale Molenstichting de molen aan twee vrijwillig molenaars. De ondertoren is ingericht als weekendverblijf en heeft een authentieke bedstee. Op het erf staat een fraaie miniatuur wipmolen. Als de wieken draaien of op zaterdag van 9 tot 17 uur zijn bezoekers welkom op deze fraaie wipwatermolen. Regelmatig wordt door vrijwilligers ook het museale dieselgemaal in werking gesteld.
Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Central Station, Roof, Safety net (cut from all sides)
In nature some insects pupate .... and during construction most buildings do too. The construction or parts of it appear during the closing stages of the building process from the temporary coloured safety netting.
Displayed here is the netting (billowing in the wind) hanging from the roof of the train shed. Those little squares are photovoltaic elements.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Katendrecht, Fenix 2, Posse, Urban restructering, Urban revitalization (uncut)
Shot inside Posse, a fine brasserie and vintage design store.
It's located in the former Fenix 2 veem (=a warehouse, a harbor storage facility). The building dates back to 1898, itâs an early and fascinating example of a modernist industrial structure without load bearing walls. The reinforced concrete skeleton is clearly on display here.
It's in an early stage redevelopment and isn't gentrified yet. But it will alas won't escape this fate of its direct neighbor Fenix 1, in which redevelopment is a few step further now, shown here . A site about this redevelopment: Fenix lofts.
Both buildings were once part of one veem very long veem, the San Fransisco. Here's the story of the building:
1898-1950
The Fenix 1 , together with Fenix 2, once formed the giant 'San Francisco' veem. With a a length of 300 m the then longest / largest veem in the world. The building has a complex and somewhat dramatic history which reflects the history of Rotterdam. At first it was used as the storage facility of the HAL (Holland America Line). At the start of the second world war the quay facilities were severly damaged during a German bombing raid here and at the end of the war again.
1950- end 80s
After the war San Francisco was repaired, the HAL moved its facilities to the adjacent Wilhelminapier and the 'Van Gend & Loos' transport company moved to the building. In 1947 a fire destroyed the middle part of it. In 1950 the two remaining parts were redeveloped on instigation of the municipality of Rotterdam as Fenix-loods 1 and Fenix-loods 2 and the open space was partly filled by a facility building for habour workers with washrooms, toilets and a large canteen. C.Steinweg Handelsveem became the prime user of the buildings.
End 80s till now
At the end of the 80s during the big transformation of the Rotterdam harbor, the Rijnhaven together with the adjacent Maashaven largely lost their harbour function. After a number of plans and studies in 2012 the municipality decided to redevelop both buildings as an element of the redevelopment / gentrification of the dilapidated Katendrecht quarter, which is an element of the Kop van Zuid urban restructuring masterplan plan which involves all the old harbours on the south bank of the river) .
The first stage of the redevelopment was to allow temporary commercial and artistic use of the Fenix buildings. Fenix 1 was primarly used for exhibitions. Such as RAW here.
In the former harbour workers canteen Theater Walhalla was created. In a move to speed up / facilitate the social-cultural part of the redevelopment / gentrification process of the quarter, this organization was funded by the property developer to intensify their cultural program.
Fenix 2 is used by Circuscentrum op De Kaap created by the Codarts Circus Arts school and Circus Rotjeknor and the hipster FenixFoodFactory.
The architectural plan for the redevelopment of Fenix 1 is handled by Mei Architects from Rotterdam. The property developer is Proper Stok, the building contractor is Heijmans.
The soundtrack - I was listening to a Movits! play list while editing this one: here, it's a life version. The studio version with English subtitles is here.
early morning sun illuminating appelmarktbrug drawbridge across lange haven channel in historic center of schiedam, zuid holland, netherlands
Archipelbuurt, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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100 years ago art movement De Stijl was founded, with Piet Mondrian as its chief representative. The city of The Hague celebrates this event by adding his well known primary colors and lines on buildings throughout the city in 2017
Duindorp, Scheveningen, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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