Rotterdam Stadium Park on all papers

Volkskrant pg.3

Trouw, pg.4

Rotterdam Dagblad, pg.7

NRC Next, pg. 14, 15

Metro, pg. 20

The New Rotterdam Stadium Park

I was at the press conference for the new De Kuip- Rotterdam Soccer Stadium this morning as Mrs. Gietema. Ruurd (http://www.kcap.eu/) is the master planner of the project. The project has national- and city-scale significance and is a total vision on the area around De Kuip and Rotterdam South. The "Sports City" embodies:
- landmark stadium situated ON THE MAAS RIVER;
- integrated and multifucntional sports, cultural, leisure and other public facilities for the city of Rotterdam;
- public transport strategy which accelerates Rotterdam's metro network development. This proposal envisages a metro ring connecting De Kuip with Zuidplein, Schiedam, Rotterdam North, Kralingezoom, ie. the pheripheries of Rotterdam;
- education "sport campus" for talents, youth and physical education for schools of all levels;
- integration of Rotterdam South area with entire metropolitan development;
- catalyst for development of surrounding areas- mixed use, living, working, commerce.
While Rotterdam gets herself ready for World Cup 2018, Rotterdam becomes a real Sports City. This projects is a total "infrastructure project".

Mayor Opstelten introduces Rotterdam's ambition and the Stadium Park. Scroll down for the video clip of Mayor's speech.

Model: stadium on the Maas River

Three of the most important Rotterdam politicians for the Stadium Park
Rotterdam politician explaining the project to the press



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Shirt Design

Medium: black shirt, acylic paint, textile paint

Too Scared To Care... In Downtown Jourg

Exhibition: Post-It City

13 March - 25 May 2008, CCCB, Barcelona.
For this exhibition Shiuan-Wen Chu and Ana Dzokic revisited their project Tokyo Houseless made in 1999 at the Berlage Institute. See label 'study', Tokyo Houseless.

The exhibition “POST-IT City” looks at different overlapping uses of urban territory, focusing on the viewpoints offered by architecture, town planning and the visual arts. It seeks to explore the phenomenon by means of the ephemeral cities that infect the everyday city with uncoded, temporary, anonymous uses, with an implicitly critical approach.

This project brings together a series of parameters that provide particularly interesting themes for contemporary culture: the need to create available spaces, the versatility of the recycling concept, the emergence of new forms of subjectivity, etc.

POST-IT City presents the cases of 78 cities as varied as Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Hanoi, Santiago de Chile, Bologna and Barcelona. POST-IT City seeks to explore the phenomenon of occasional urbanities like: an industrial estate that becomes a car racing track at weekends, the use of the city “under construction” for the adventures of explorer nerds, the squatter phenomenon, the use of waste land for occasional meetings (a traveller’s camp or a rave), the conversion of the daytime university city into an area for sexual transactions by night, etc.

POST-IT City exhibition is curated by Giovanni La Varra, Martí Peran, Filippo Poli and Federico Zanfi.

TU Delft architecture faculty burned to ashes

We are totally devastated. This happened on 13 May Tuesday from 9 o'clock in the morning. It started on the 7th floor due to leakage of water pipe causing electricity short circuit of a coffee machine.
All the books, manuscripts, achiefs, documents, models, collections... are burned to ashes. I used to teach on the 2nd and 5th floor during year 2004-2007.

Strange Things Seen from Above

Beijing, pattern on a construction site


Beijing, Siheyuan giving way to new gated community. Notice the walls and fragmentation.


Beijing, clash of morphology


Cape Town, 'public space'


Johannesburg, Modernism and new users


Johannesburg, Modernism and new users


Mumbai, clash of morphology


Mumbai, views to a small slum


Mumbai, clash of morphology

Rotterdam, colony of anarchists

Rotterdam, archaeological site

Rotterdam, car crash

Views to Cul-de-sacs