HAMTAEHYEON

The residential high-rise tower by Francine Houben is the counterpart for the free-standing office building, Foster's World Port Center. For Mecanoo it was important the contrast between the north and south sides should not be expressed in the way the buildings looked, and did not want to create a ‘housing project’ image. It consists of a composition of intersecting volumes, part of which is suspended above the quay. The construction contributes to the Holland-Amerika feeling: a system that alternates steel (Amerika), concrete (Holland) and then steel again. The first two floors are built of steel and bear the 152 meters high tower and the Water Apartments jutting 16 metres out. The 27 floors above are executed with a concrete climbing form. From the 28th floor steel is used. Windows, balconies and loggias are distributed in a rhythmic composition: corner-spanning, storey-high, circular, staggered, opening on hinges and sliding open.

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The school exists out of two parallel building volumes, connected through air-ways. The most important functions are grouped around the central atrium. The three lower storeys contain the public functions, like small companies, restaurant, reading room. The upper 5 storeys are reserved for offices, computer and study-spaces. Predominantly used materials are cobalt blue screen processed glass and clear glass – an expression of the open character, the maximal flexibility and the remarkable views. The school expanded too quickly for the building (completed in 2000), so a temporary expansion is made in the stacked port cabins, opposite of the street. The much awaited permanent expansion is built behind the main building, expected to be finished in 2008, also designed by Erick van Egeraat.

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Built by the international known Australian architect Peter Wilson, the theatre is situated along the waterfront, between river and city. It faces both the Maas River and Rijn Harbour – a multiple orientation, a single wrapping facade, a 360 degree building. Visitors have an excellent view of the harbour and the magnificent skyline of Rotterdam. An internalized ramp allows three 18m long trucks to park directly besides the first floor stage. The ramp roof provides an architectural promenade in the foyer. The Luxor auditorium seats 1500 people.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Rotterdam/New%20Luxor

Located at the southern end of the Erasmus Bridge, this – for the Netherlands - relatively tall tower (98 meters, 23 storeys) provides office space for the KPN Telecom company. The façade that is facing the city and the bridge is clad with green lights, distributed over the glass. They work as a giant billboard and change every day, with the season, activities, festivals or just show KNP-logos. The 37 x 72 meter / 2922 m2 monochrome screen turns into a place to a giant public display for animations and graphics. It consists of 896 square Osram lamps in a 22*41 grid.

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The completely refurbished Las Palmas building on the Wilhelmina Pier in Rotterdam now houses several cultural institutions and companies that operate in the creative sector. One of them is the Netherlands Photo museum with large exposition space, a library and storage space for archiving and preserving photographic material. On the rooftop a whole new structure houses the office of OVG Projectontwikkeling, as real estate developer also involved in this project. Its location occupies an important place in Rotterdam’s history. Hundreds of thousands of emigrants set sail for the USA and Canada from the Wilhelmina Pier, which served as the headquarters of the Holland-America Line from 1901. Las Palmas was completed in 1953 to accommodate workshops and warehousing for the Holland-America Line. Before the renovation it was used as a club venue. The building’s spaciousness, robust concrete structure and striking interior make it eminently suitable for this new cultural function.

로테르담의 가장 유명한 전경 또는 다리..

Paris has the Eiffel Tower; New York has the Empire State Building; in Rotterdam it's the Erasmus bridge. Its structural scale and design articulation has become a distinctive landmark within the surrounding skyline. This cable-stay bridge links the northern and southern parts of the city with a 802 m span in spectacular style. The bridge deck is supported by steel cables slung over a single pylon that is bent to counter the forces of tension. Traffic passes underneath the 139 m pylon as it straddles the roadway. The structure is called "the Swan" by locals because of its graceful posture over the water. The Erasmus Bridge is such a dramatic departure in bridge building that it has even become part of the city's official logo. The top part of pylon of the bridge is reachable through an internal staircase.

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Erasmus Bridge landings
Rising to a height of 139 m and spanning a width of 802 m, the bridge over the River Maas is a landmark for Rotterdam. The eye-catching steel asymmetric pylon is not the only interesting thing on this bridge: its concrete, slowly rising unusual formed landings are quite as impressive. Solidly anchored to the north shore the road to Erasmus Bridge is not only quite narrow, but built on a slight incline, reducing the structure's apparent heaviness and giving it a slender, light appearance. On top are two sidewalks, two cycle tracks, tram rails and two vehicle carriageways. Constructed to facilitate the orchestration of traffic flows, the sweeping concrete staircases of the bridge lead up from the parking garage on the north side, extending the curve of the main ramp to pedestrian level and turning the bridge into something of a public space in the sky. Underneath the traffic deck, there?s a shop, restaurant, bar and underground parking, all part of the same construction.

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교량 이름의 에라스무스(Desiderius Erasmus / 1466.10.27~1536.7.12)는 로테르담(Rotterdam) 출신의 르네상스 시대의 네덜란드 인문주의자이며, 에라스무스-橋 부근에는 에라스무스 대학이 자리잡고 있다. 다리는 로테르담-市 뉴마스-江의 남단과 북단을 연결하고 있으며, 지리적, 상업적으로 매우 중요한 곳으로 꾸준히 도시계획개발이 이루어지고 있는 상황이다.

2008년의 화재로 인해  아이디어 공모전을 실시했었다. 그 이후 2009년 3월 공모전 당선작이 확정되었다. 그 때의 방문엔 불타 없어진 건축과 건물로 인해 학생들은 천막에서 공부를 이어 갔었다.
현재는 델프트공대 초입부에 있는 이 곳으로 자리를 옮겼다. 그리고 원래의 부지는 푸르른 잔디만이 남아 있다.

Delft University of Technology's new Department of Geotechnology, part of the school's faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CiTG), is housed in a building at one end of the CiTG complex, which was designed by Van den Broek en Bakema. The façade was stripped and given a new glass curtain wall imprinted with a pattern of stones sawed in half. Existing window cleaners' balconies were converted into bay windows equipped with built-in air conditioners. Slanting lines in the façade follow the spatial organization of the interior, a landscape of laboratories, workstations and study areas. Voids were added to connect existing floors and to represent transparency in the education provided here. Floors were enlarged by adding a new stairwell at one end of the building. Materials and colours derived from the original building were applied in a more 'virtual' manner.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Delft/Department%20of%20Geotechnology

The construction of the main library of the Delft University of Technology was finished in 1997. The design is performed by Mecanoo an architecture office based in Delft. The building has won the Dutch "National Steel Price" in 1998 in the category buildings of steel and hybrid constructions because of the extraordinary use of steel in different parts of the building. But for many TU Delft students, as me, the building is mainly the place were you spent most of your days during the exam periods. In the summer you have your study breaks in the sun on the grass rooftop of the building and in the winter it is Delfts only natural ski track (Delft has a very flat country side), which students take with the weirdest real technical Delft designed sledges. Being on the grass roof top of the building was always more interesting than being inside.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Delft/Library%20Delft%20University%20of%20Technology

Delftse Poort Offices - Bonnema Architecten
The insurance company Nationale Nederlanden invited 5 Dutch architects to compete and design a preliminary plan: Quist, Kraaijvanger Urbis, Van Mourik and Coenen. Bonnema was chosen unanimous not only because of its efficiency but largely because of its image: strong but slender. Bonnema convinced the board to make an even higher building they first intended to, with more floor area, to enhance the proportions and the architectural impact. It was immediately the largest building in the Netherlands, with 151,35 m. It is used by insurance companies Nationale Nederlanden and RVS Verzekeringen, and the ING Bank. Building this new headquarters high-rise office building was one step further in a long lasting development plan for this area. Enclosed between the railway tracks, station-square and the large Weena street, this spot was studied by many architects and urban designers before Bonnema started.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Rotterdam/Delftse%20Poort%20Offices

로테르담 역근처에 있는 건물인데 강남역에 있는 삼성건물이 연상된다

Millennium Tower - WZMH Architects
The Millenniumtoren is a 131 meter (including the antenna 149 meter) high building at the Weena, opposite of the Delftse Poort. It has 34 floors, and 5 elevators. Parts is being used as office space, with tenants Loyens Loeff, Arcadium Bastion and HAL investments. The five star hotel Westin also occupies part of the building. On the first floor the tower has a connection to the next-door congress and concert center De Doelen.

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Westzeedijk, Rotterdam,  The Netherlands, 1992
대지는 이중적인 조건(a dual condition)을 나타내고 있다. 대지의 남단은 제방(dike) 위에 위치한 고속도로(highway) 마아스바울레바르트(Maasboulevard) -街에 의해 경계가 이뤄져 있고, 상대적으로 낮은 높이의 북단은 일상적인 명상(conventional contemplation)을 위한 박물관 공원(the Museum Park)과 마주보고 있다. 프로젝트 계획서(program)에는 통합되거나 분리되어 사용될 수 있는 세 개의 主전시공간(major exhibition space)과 강연장(auditorium) 그리고 독립적으로 접근(운영)이 가능한 식당(restaurant)이 요구되었다.
쿤스탈 미술관은 두 개의 통로가 교차된 사각형 상자처럼 보인다. 그 중 하나는 마아스바울레바르트-街와 평행하게 동서를 연결하는 도로이고, 다른 하나는 공원으로 향해 관통하여 있는 공용(옥외) 경사로에 의한 남북 축이다. 프로그램, 대지 조건과 사각형 건물을 4개로 나누고 있는 십자형 통로가 이 프로젝트에 대한 도전의 출발점이 되었다. 하나의 미술관을 4개의 독립된 프로젝트(four autonomous projects)로 계획하면서, 이로 인해 상대적으로 차이가 큰(contradictory) 공간 경험의 시간과정(sequence)을 극복하고 연속적인 나선구조(a spiral)를 형성할 수 있는 방안을 마련하여야 했다. 다시 말해서, 4개의 분리된 사각형의 공간 속에 나선형 연결 구조를 함께 상상하여야 했다. 이 결과 건물의 개념(concept)은 연속적인 순환과정(continuous circuit)으로 결정되었다.
첫 번째 보행용 경사로(the pedestrian ramp)는 유리 벽면에 의해 공용 공간으로 개방된 외부와 순환통로(circuit)의 일부인 내부, 둘로 나누어지고 있다. 첫 번째와 평행하지만 반대 방향으로 연결된 두 번째 경사로는 강연장과 그 하부의 식당 부분을 위하여 테라스처럼 구성되어 있다. 그리고 두개의 경사로가 교차하는 부분에서는 주출입구(the main entrance)가 위치하고 있다. 그 곳에서 방문객들은 공원으로 내려가거나 제방쪽으로 올라가는 첫 번째 경사로와 만날 수 있다. 첫 번째 홀(hall 1)로 진입 공간에서 사람들은 계단으로 전면이 막힌 곳에 이르게 되는데, 이 곳을 지나면 푸른 잎을 배경(backdrop)으로 나무 기둥들의 조경 경관과 때때로 공원측 정면에 있는 다양한 종류의 유리면에 의해 형태가 굴절된(distorted) 모습을 점차 볼 수 있게 된다. 그 곳에서 사람들은 내부 경사로(the inner ramp)를 따라 넓게 천창이 개방되고 가로(the boulevard)에 면한 홀 2(hall 2)로 이동할 수 있다.
옥상정원(roof garden)을 따라 만들어진 세 번째 경사로는 더욱 친근감 있는 단층(single-height) 높이의 홀(hall)과 더욱이 지붕 테라스(the roof terrace)로 연결되어 있다. 대지는 고속도로와 박물관 공원(Museum Park) 사이에 놓인 60 * 60㎡ 규모로, 인접하여 자연사 박물관(Nature Museum)이 있다. 이 공원의 마스터 플랜(master plan)은 OMA의 디자인이며, 공원 내에는 보에이만스 판 뵈닝헌 미술관(Boijmans van Beuningen Museum)과 네덜란드 건축 협회(Netherlands Architecture Institute)가 위치하고 있다.
쿤스탈 미술관은 연면적 7,000㎡의 철골철근 콘크리트 구조의 건축물이며, 순회 전시회(travelling exhibitions)를 위한 전람 홀(Expo hall)을 주공간으로 한다. 공사 예산은 1,500만 유로로 1992년에 완공된 로테르담-市 소유의 미술관이다.
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델프트역에서 버스를 타고  약 5~10분정도 TUdelft로 이동한다. TUdelft AURA정류장에서 하차 후 여기저기 돌아 다녔다. TUdelft가 넓다보니 보고 찍고 하는 것들이 너무도 많다. 델프트는 TUdelft의 도시라고  할 수 있을 정도로 이 도시에 델프트공대의 의미는 남다르다. 그래서 이 작은 도시에 많은 주목을 하는 것이라 할 수 있겠다.

KPF architects were commissioned to renew and partly replace the existing complex of four towers, connected at ground level by an uninspiring and outdated podium. The podium was demolished, replacing it with a number of new structures under a 300m x 100m curved lightweight roof. Part of the renovation includes a new sixteen-story tower looking over the busy A10 motorway. The structure houses highly serviced office space and a double height dealing room. Timber screens and coloured panels, set behind a glazed skin, add a rich texture and warm appearance to the façade.

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The tower Toyo Ito (the building is named after its designer) is part of the Mahler 4 complex on the international business centre the Zuidas in Amsterdam. Together with its neighbor Viñoly it is one of the most striking and recognizable buildings so far. The building has several glass ‘windows’ or holes in it. The idea behind these voids is to enter the outside life into the building and to add light and space to the interior. The first 6 floors are mainly occupied with offices, for the 370 employees. The upper floors, in the second part of the building are reserved for meeting rooms. This way the employees can reach their workspace faster, while meetings are held in the most ‘elevated’ spaces.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/Toyo%20Ito

The construction of this unique office building, designed by Michael Graves & Assosiates and named after its tenant Baker & McKenzie, is now underway. The perfect location, arresting architecture and quality materials give this building a strong visual appeal and distinct identity. The Dutch architecture of the 1930s was the inspiration for the design of the Baker & McKenzie House. One example of this is the use of red stone and red “Dudok” brick.

In 2006, leading Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek chose Erick van Egeraat's office tower design, a landmark in the Mahler4 area at the prestigious Zuidas in Amsterdam, to be the new companys headquarters. De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek assigned Erick van Egeraat for the interior design of the 22-storey office tower as well, also known as The Rock. In order to match the needs and demands of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, being the main tenant of the building, several amendments were made to the programme. As opposed to the rock-like character and material expression of the exterior, the interior of the office building should be warm and comfortable as well as representative, which is outlined amongst others in the frequent use of materials such as natural stone, wood and brass. The specific programme, combined with the special design and the carefully selected materials, has resulted in a unique interior which optimally matches the need of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/de%20Brauw%20Blackstone%20Westbroek

After the definitive choise of Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V. for Mahler 4, the construction of this unique design by Erick van Egeraat associated architects, has started. Within 2 months after contract agreement we already celebrated highest building level. The completion date is expected October 2008.Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V. will rent at least 21.000 m² of the total available office space of 28.500 m².

The 87m-high 24-storey tower was commissioned by ING Real Estate - with Ernst & Young as the principal tenants. It is one of several office buildings located at the eastern gateway to the mixed-use Zuidas development, south of Amsterdam. The appearance of the building is determined by a distinctive 'diagrid' that ensures the tower is readily-identifiable on the drive into Amsterdam. The structural steel diagrid is clad in silver aluminium and offset against the dark glazed cladding panels, which reduce the definition of the individual floor levels. This creates an elegant and arresting lattice that scales the entire facade. For the first month after the completion, the newly opened building is transformed by colour.

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/Ernst%20%2526%20Young%20Tower