Tag: Rotterdam

Euromast 3

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Euromast 3 [2018]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 210 x 184 x 18cm
(made on commission for Euromast Vastgoed BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Private collection Rotterdam, Netherlands.)


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Boompjes

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Boompjes [2009]

bas-relief in salvaged wood, 105 x 90 x 12 cm
(private collection Rotterdam, Netherlands)



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Town Bus

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Stadsbus (Town Bus) [2007]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 183 x 112 x 14cm
(Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands)



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Euromast 2

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Euromast 2 [2005]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 205 x 175 x 16cm
(private collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands)



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Euromast 1

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Euromast 1 [2005]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 205 x 182 x 16cm
(collection Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands)



Construction of the Euromast bas relief.



The Euromast observation tower was designed by Hugh Maaskant and built in 1958-1960. It is a symbol of the reconstruction of Rotterdam.

Euromast

The Euromast observation tower was designed by Hugh Maaskant and built in 1958-1960 to a height of 101 meters. A further 85 meters were added in 1970 so that it would remain the tallest built structure in Rotterdam. Originally intended for the Floriade event in 1960, it has come to symbolize the spirit of post World War II reconstruction.




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Shipsection

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Shipsection [2003]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood 185 x 195 x 16cm
(private collection Rotterdam, Netherlands)

The Shipsection bas-relief was based on the Costa Classica ship section. Follow this link to learn about its role in the demise of Camell Laird shipyard in Liverpool and about how it ended up in Rotterdam.:


The Costa Classica ship section

In 2002 Cammel Laird Shipyard in Birkenhead near Liverpool was building a 14 storey ship section to upgrade the Costa Classica cruise ship owned by Italian Costa Cruises. The almost 200 year old shipyard was famous in the seventies and eighties for building nuclear submarines. Contracts had dried up with the end of the Cold War, and they were looking for a way into the civilian market. This assignment looked like a promising start. When the Costa Classica was already on its way to Birkenhead to be cut in half, Costa Cruises was taken over by Carnival Cruises, an American firm. Carnival doesn’t do ship extensions, they just replace outdated ships. News reached the shipyard that the Costa Classica had made a U-turn and was now steaming back to Italy. The new owners said they had reports of faults in the section. Within months the shipyard was declared bankrupt and its workers were laid off.
www.telegraph.co.uk/…/The-straw-that-broke-Cammell.html

“The 14 storeys high section was bought by a consortium of Dutch investors. It was scrapped in Heijsehaven harbour in Rotterdam, just opposite my studio. My bas-relief was constructed while the original section was being dismantled. I even got to visit the section before they started. The only way in was to be hoisted on top of it by a tall crane. The upper decks were nearly finished, with spaces fitted as restaurants, a discotheque and a swimming pool. Lower down were hundreds of cabins and a fully equipped engine room – all brand new. It was an eerie experience.”

Image top: photo of the original section in the Heijsehaven by Ron van der Ende.

Photos taken during our visit to the section by Peter Breevoort.



These works were part of the Mobility exhibition at gallery Delta in 2003:

Fly Over

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Fly Over [2002]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood 350 x 210 x 20cm
Built for Hogeschool Rotterdam (Rotterdam University)


The Fly Over was the first bas-relief that I made on commission. It was constructed for the auditorium of the new Economic Faculty in Rotterdam, part of Rotterdam University; A vast space with dark grey walls and bright red linoleum floors. The colour of the latter is echoed in the work as an incorporated red haze. The relief itself was based on photo’s of the large Kleinpolderplein stacked interchange in Rotterdam.

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The Mobility show at gallery Delta with Hans sitting at his desk.

Fly Over was temporarily installed at the gallery for this occasion..



These works were part of the Mobility exhibition at gallery Delta in 2003:

Parkflat

Wall mounted 3d polychrome sculptures made from found wood.

Parkflat [2002]

Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 135 x 165 x 14
(Collection Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Photo: Theo van Pinxteren, Museum Rotterdam

The Parkflat under construction, 12 August 1957.

Photo by Herbert Behrens © Nationaal Archief


Parkflat, Rotterdam

The Parkflat apartment block is situated on the corner of Westzeedijk and Kievitslaan in Rotterdam, overlooking the park. Designed by E.F. Groosman, it was built between 1948 and 1958 as the first large residential building of Rotterdam’s postwar reconstruction period. The Parkflat contains 50 relatively luxurious apartments, even though the tower block was constructed in a modified version of the MUWI concrete panel system.
This building system was widely used for mass housing construction all around the Netherlands until it fell out of favour in the early 1970s.
(source: rotterdamwoont.nl/…/Parkflat)
(source: bestaandewoningbouw.nl/muwi)