From LP: The KPN Telecom building (2000). It looks like it's about to fall over but for a long pole giving it support. It's the work of Ronzo Piano who also did the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Cube HouseModern residential architecture (cube houses) in the city centre of Rotterdam. The cube houses were designed by Dutch architect Piet Blom, who tilted a normal cube house 45 degrees and rested it on a hexagon-shaped pylon. Each of the houses represents a tree and all togther they represent a forest. There are 38 cube houses all connected together with two megacubes at each of the ends. The houses have got three floors with a living space of around 100 square meters. Some of the residents use the small third floor as their garden.
The cube houses don't have any straight walls inside, so this gives a lot of new residents a headache when they need to buy their furniture. People that choose to live in these houses have to be creative while redecorating their houses.
The Willemsbrug and the White House.The bridge was completed in 1981, designed by C. Veerling and named after King Willem III of the Netherlands. It is a cable-stayed bridge with a total span of about 318 meters.
‘Het Witte Huis’ (The White House) in Rotterdam isn’t a copy of the world-famous white house in Washington. The Dutch White House was the first skyscraper in Europe and was build between 1897 and 1898. It is one of the few structures that survived the bombings Rotterdam in 1940. The house is designed by Architect Molenbroek. It is 43 meters high and counts ten floors. The style of the building is art-nouveau. It was build with an elevator, which is unique for that time.
EuromastThe city also houses the 186 meters (610 ft) tall Euromast,, which has long been a major tourist attraction. It was built in 1960, initially reaching a height of 101 meters (331 ft); in 1970, the Euromast was extended by 85 meters (279 ft) to its current height.
View from the Euromast.
The 800m-long Eramusbrug with its graceful support was designed by Ben van Berkel.
Kinderdijk
Kinderdijk is a village belonging to the municipality of Nieuw-Lekkerland, in the province South Holland, about 15 km east of Rotterdam. Kinderdijk is situated in a polder at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands. The windmills of Kinderdijk are one of the best known Dutch tourist sites. They have been a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1997.
Although, I am not good at riding a bicycle, my friends all agree that riding a bike would help save time than walking. Maybe true for them, but not me. Very tired.Breda
The name Breda derived from brede Aa ('broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was once a strategic military and political significance.
Chasse Theater Breda (the casino)
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