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Schouwburgplein

Schouwburgplein

Landscape architect

Year

1969

Style

Contemporary

Type

landscape

Four crane-like light masts on hydraulic arms stand on Rotterdam's theater square, and in the first years visitors could set them moving themselves. The square itself came out of the 1946 reconstruction plan drawn up after the bombing of…

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Timeline

  1. 1969

    Original construction

    Bernard Fokkinga

  2. 1991-1996

    West 8 redesign

    West 8 under Adriaan Geuze rebuilt the surface between 1991 and 1996 as a raised deck of ultra-light bands of wood, rubber, epoxy and perforated metal, held down to a weight the parking garage below could take, and added four hydraulic…

    West 8, Adriaan Geuze

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