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The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) is a bi-annual international event bringing together international knowledge and experience in various design disciplines (architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture), and presenting this knowledge and experience to a broader audience.
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) is a biannual film festival screening films, shorts, animations and documentaries about architecture, urban development and city culture, for both architects and the general audience. It is the largest architectural film festival in the world. [1]
Rotterdam has a reputation for being a platform for architectural development and education through the Berlage Institute, a postgraduate laboratory of architecture, and the NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute), which is open to the public and has a variety of exhibitions on architecture and urban planning issues.
Rotterdam, South Holland: 2014 1441; ii, iv (cultural) The factory was built in the 1920s as a food processing and packaging plant for coffee, tea, and tobacco. It was designed by Leendert van der Vlugt and represents a new concept of factory, a symbol of the modernist and functionalist culture of the inter-war period. The façades are made of ...
Nieuwe Instituut (NI, English: New Institute) is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.It focuses on architecture, design, and digital culture. NI is in a building designed by Jo Coenen at Museumpark 25 in the centre of Rotterdam, adjacent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Kop van Zuid, viewed from the Euromast The skyline of Rotterdam, viewed from Schiebroek Rotterdam, the second most populous city in the Netherlands, is home to over 350 completed high-rises. The tallest building in Rotterdam is the Zalmhaven, with a height of 215 metres (705 ft). The 59 storey skyscraper also stands as the highest building in the Netherlands and the Benelux. It surpassed the ...
The Dutch Golden Age roughly spanned the 17th century. [1] Due to the thriving economy, cities expanded greatly. New town halls and storehouses were built, and many new canals were dug out in and around various cities such as Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam for defense and transport purposes.
Gallery beneath the archives, with a light sculpture by Peter Struycken. NAI Rotterdam.On the left the archives, on the right the office building. The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) was a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, which comprised a museum, an archive plus library and a platform for lectures and debates.