The model of the football table incorporates a number of lighting effects. This required not only finding the best lighting solution, but also writing software to enhance the experience of playing the game - showing the winning goal or restarting the game.
You're invited to road test '11' and test your skillz at the debut in Milan next week.
11 - the beautiful game
Via Forcella 8, Milan
April 16-21, 2008
Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photographs inside the building. Here are some links for you to see and read more:
Interior Panoramas of the Construction
Final Design
History of the Rijksmuseum
You will see in the pictures the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), museum of architecture. The building is situated at the edge of the Museumpark in the center of Rotterdam and was designed by Jo Coenen. The NAI stores important architecture archives and collections, and makes them accessible to the public.
Take a look at the Sonneveld House which stands adjacent to the NAi on the corner of Jongkindstraat and Rochussenstraat. Built in the early nineteen thirties, it is one of the best-preserved houses in the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism. It was designed by the architecture firm of Brinkman & Van der Vlugt. We were able to see what it was like to live in a hypermodern home in 1933.
The Erasmusbrug is a cable stayed bridge across the Nieuwe Maas river, linking the northern and southern halves of the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The 808 metre long bridge has a 139 metre-high asymmetrical pylon, earning the bridge its nickname of "The Swan".
Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the KPN Telecom building stands at the end of the Erasmusbrug. The section that faces the city and the Erasmus Bridge is the most interesting portion of the building. The façade is tilted and has a slanted pillar from the ground going into the center of the façade. It is clad with a green curtain wall system that is complemented by green lights distributed evenly over the glass façade. The lights work as a giant billboard and the patterns they create are easiest to see at night time or on an overcast day. These patterns change and move throughout the day.
Would you like to live in the Kubuswoning (Cubic Houses)? Designed by Piet Blom in 1984 they sit on top of a pedestrian bridge over a busy street. The cubes are tilted and sit on hexagon-shaped pole structures. The interior living space is split into three levels. The triangle-shaped lower level contains the living room and kitchen. The middle level contains the sleeping area and a bathroom, while the top level, also in a triangular shape, is used as either an extra bedroom or a living space.
Click for some information on the Post CS Building, 11|Restaurant, and the Stedelijk Museum at expatica.com
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