Baby Cookie Monster, how did you get up there??
Day three was spent "city hopping". We started by going to Halversam to see a Neutlings and Reijdik building which was pretty great but we couldn't explore much inside. As you can see they loved the color orange. The outside was embossed glass that had relief images of stills from films, with random color streaks overlaid on top.
The whole group out in front of the building.
The outdoor cafe (that had free wireless!) surrounded by water.
The WHOLE building, covered in embossed colored glass.
Cool beams and cantilever.
The stairs leading down.......
All of these levels are beneath ground level. Like a canyon. Covered in stone. With orange interiors.
More of the valleys with orange windows and such...
An auditorium type place with seating for the cafe. Orange.
Jessica taking a picture of the glass. I stick close to her when we're exploring buildings cause she likes trying infiltrate buildings and (almost) get in trouble.
Right nearby was a concrete "single surface" MVRDV building called VPRO that wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped.
On to Almere, we visited an office building by UN Studio that was glorious. It was coated with a propiretary film developed with 3M. It changed color based on what angle you were viewing it at.
The building only looks reddish-orange cause I'm looking right at it. Walk up to it and from the side it would change to green. Film was embedded in the glass.
Stairs behind the glass in there...
We then headed to the like shopping district, to see a cube building, that was a theater by SANAA that was pretty unassuming- especially since it was surrounded by cool buildings in cool colors. Dutch architecture is always exciting and fun and colorful.
A tall sculpture.
An electronics store with kinda gaudy glass front.
This random park-ish thing with a river of red water flowing around. Too much concrete. What do you do here?
Finally we went to Lelystad to see another UN Studio project, the Agora Theatre, another orange themed project- but the theater itself was actually red and the lobby pink. Lots of colors. Very angular.
This is the building we saw the model of at UN Studio's firm.
The pink interior stairwell...
The ridiculously red angular wall of the theatre
Lots of people napping. Very few getting good nights sleeps.
Now we're headed back (I'm writing this on the train) and hopefully we'll get a grocery store dinner. Need to spend less. No more group dinners and going out for drinks! We can't do this for four months or even the next five days!
Lots of people napping. Very few getting good nights sleeps.
1 comment:
some of the pictures of the building with the 3M glass SERIOUSLY looked like a rendering. That is incredible.
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