Fenix, a new art museum about migration is opening on 16 May in #Rotterdam
✍️ journalists: are you interested to join a multi-day press trip from Tue 13 - Thu 15 May that includes new highlights of the city? Send me a message!
#presstrip#travelwriter#journalist
🌍 “This flood-prone Dutch city, one of the world’s largest ports, is meeting the challenges of rising seas with innovative #architecture.”
✍️ A pleasure to have worked with @JCreatureTravel on this amazing article about #Rotterdam#resilience@NatGeo
https://t.co/YouOSPL24X
👀 Breaking waves in a former canal in downtown Rotterdam.
🌊 These are only the first smaller test waves of urban surf pool @RIF010. The coming weeks the waves will be tested further, aiming for a 1.5 meter high barrel.
Opening 6 July #journalist#travelwriter#surfing
💦 Filling up the tub! No less than 4 million liters of water are needed to fill a concrete pool of 130 by 23 meters
Comparable to 33,000 bathtubs
🌊 @RIF010, the world’s first inner city wave pool is opening in Rotterdam on July 6 #news#journalist#travelwriter#surfing
@mhendrikxm Sorry Martijn, deze ontvangst is echt alleen voor journalisten. Mail me gerust voor meer informatie over het programma. Er zijn ook onderdelen die je zelf kunt bezoeken.
🚨Attention journalists
How do you design #resilient cities of the future? Is it possible to create space for nature, animals, and water when there is a high demand for housing?
✍️ Join our #presstrip#Rotterdam from Wed 15 - Fri 17 May about #climate adaptive #urbanism
👀The windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror. A saying that fits Rotterdam well.
⬇️ Here’s an overview of new developments in 2024 for journalists.
#travelwriter#journalist#news#architecture#culture
https://t.co/8GnwYzly74
Kunsthal #Rotterdam has just announced their stellar programme for 2024. My personal top 3:
🪩 DIVA
📷 Richard Avedon: Relationships
🌍 Thomas J Price. Matter of Place
#exhibition#photography#travelwriter#news
👀 Now you see it, now you don’t. A lot can happen in #Rotterdam in 6 months: placing 215 sheet piles, pouring underwater concrete and pumping out a canal
🏄 Urban wave pool RiF010 is scheduled to open next year and construction is well on its way #journalist#news#surfing
🌀 Mesmerising and hypnotic. @kunsthal Rotterdam presents Living Paintings: Nature.
Immerse yourself in the multi-sensory and otherworldly installations of Refik Anadol https://t.co/zHMEdmPo8F
#culture#digitalart#travelwriter#journalist#news
🌳 Wait for it… the final design of Hofbogenpark has been determined!
💦 The 2km long roof park, on top of a monumental railway viaduct, adds 6,200m2 of green surface, has a circular water system and is designed for both humans and animals
#rotterdam#news#urbanism
🌪️ How it started, how it’s going
FENIX, a major new #museum inspired by stories of global migration is set to open in Rotterdam in 2025
🏗️ What started as an imaginative sketch is becoming increasingly visible #news#travelwriter#journalist#culture#architecture
🇳🇱 Delftware is considered an age-old Dutch craft, but check out this contemporary tile of the @MVRDV designed Depot
Based on a 17th-century plate that is part of the @boijmans collection. Where Dutch #heritage and iconic #architecture meet 💙