On the eve of Rotterdam's 40th film festival, film critic Agnès Poirier offers a guide to one of Europe's most eclectic and design-conscious cities
Rotterdam may not be your typical Dutch city with canals, cobblestone passages and grand 17th-century houses, but it is an ode to modernism and innovation worth a detour. Flattened by the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1940, the Netherlands' second city has been rebuilding and reinventing itself ever since and become a hotbed of architecture and design. The New York Times declared that "Rotterdam is increasingly to architecture what Paris is to fashion, or Los Angeles to entertainment". The city is littered with iconic structures, such as Rem Koolhaas's De Kunsthal museum, Ben van Erkel's Erasmus Bridge (nicknamed The Swan), Piet Blom's cube houses, and Jan Willem Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk's periscope-like Scheepvaart en Transport College, to name but a few. Yet the city manages to...
Rotterdam may not be your typical Dutch city with canals, cobblestone passages and grand 17th-century houses, but it is an ode to modernism and innovation worth a detour. Flattened by the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1940, the Netherlands' second city has been rebuilding and reinventing itself ever since and become a hotbed of architecture and design. The New York Times declared that "Rotterdam is increasingly to architecture what Paris is to fashion, or Los Angeles to entertainment". The city is littered with iconic structures, such as Rem Koolhaas's De Kunsthal museum, Ben van Erkel's Erasmus Bridge (nicknamed The Swan), Piet Blom's cube houses, and Jan Willem Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk's periscope-like Scheepvaart en Transport College, to name but a few. Yet the city manages to...
- 1/27/2011
- by Agnès Poirier
- The Guardian - Film News
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