De Rotterdam building Rotterdam Netherlands (by OVG/MAB)

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About De Rotterdam building Rotterdam Netherlands (by OVG/MAB)

A city on a postage stamp.

When your ambitions are greater than the available space you have two options: adapt either your ambitions, or the space. Architect Rem Koolhaas managed to add a third option: turn the city upside down. Or rather: stack it…

In order to accommodate all the city of Rotterdam’s massive plans for the Wilhelminapier, Koolhaas’ OMA Architecten, in collaboration with OVG and MAB, designed an entire district with apartments, hotel, entertainment and leisure amenities and offices. We then lifted the whole plan up and stacked it on top of each other. Literally. A vertical city.

De Rotterdam, named after the ‘SS Rotterdam’ of the Holland America Line, is currently the largest construction project in The Netherlands. This not only demonstrates architectural daring: the whole project and its financing was effected in full in the darkest days of the worldwide economic crisis. De Rotterdam proves that when there is little room for maneuver, both physically and financially, the solutions can be so much more creative.

http://www.ovg.nl/en/#projecten/de_rotterdam