OMA announced today the completion of De Rotterdam Tower at the Wilhelmina Pier in Rotterdam. Widely described as a "Vertical City", stacked on top of the structure's six-story base are three transparent towers - built with 7 meters of space between them. — bustler.net
Images courtesy of OMA; photography by Ossip van Duivenbode, Philippe Ruault, Michel van de Kar (see image gallery below for details).
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inhuman
replicant.
Filing cabinets for people.
The second to last image is essentially the current cover of Delirious New York. Whats surreal in a good way is how much this appears to be a transplanted slice of Manhattan. I think the design falls short at the base where it shifts awkwardly from verticality to horizontality.
Doesn't the displacement of the parts make these appear as if they are children's toy blocks? It screws around with the scale thinking about it that way. The 'inhuman' all-over grid again plays with scale. Sort of looks like little stacked boxes wrapped in paper. and Ready to fall over. Reminds me of the 'before shot' before the whole house of cards collapse. Anyone else see a theme here?
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