1992
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rem Koolhaas (OMA)
Pritzker Prize Laureate
Photo by
Gert Jan van Rooij - Reprinted with permission of the Kunstal
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The compact building designed by the Rotterdam firm of OMA (Rem Koolhaas/Fumi Hoshino) contains a large exhibition space (3300 square metres), distributed over three halls and two galleries. A series of massive ramps and roads carve through the art gallery space, creating the sense that the city is pouring through the structure.
From Rem Koolhaas: "The detailing in the Kunsthal is a mode of detailing that frees the attention for other aspects such as the way the ground is read, the sensing of abstractions, of transparency and translucency, of concrete and of the conditions themselves. The sensing of a whole instead of all that fixation on the joins and the encounters." (The Critical Landscape, by Arie Graafland and Jasper de Haan, 1997)
