Hello there!
It has been a while ago that I wrote something, but we had vacation and I was busy with a lot of other things.
Now school has started for three weeks and I’m going to try writing again on my blog.
Three weeks ago on a Wednesday, I went to Rotterdam with school. My school is in the city Tilburg, but three years ago I went to school in Rotterdam for a year. I used to study Lifestyle & Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy. After my propedeuse diploma I made the choise to take a gap year, and now I started my second year International Lifestyle Studies at Fontys Academy (for Creative Industries).
During my year in Rotterdam I didn’t saw that much of the city. My school happened to be in Blaak, and I don’t really like the buildings overthere. I knew there were some nice places in Rotterdam but sadly I never got to see them. In a book which I had to learn for an exam last year, I read about a building called ‘Schieblock Rotterdam’, so I went to visit it with two girls from school.
At the bottom of the building, they set up a rooftop pavillion with a small restaurant that included food from their own vegetable garden. Each floor also has about 10 companies like designers, moviemakers, architects etc.
One of the companies is called ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles). ‘ZUS works with a belief that every place has the potential to become unique and thrilling’.
One of their projects was ‘I make Rotterdam’. It’s a project of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and ZUS. Making City is an appeal and argument to give architecture and urban planning a more central place in the making of a city or society.
They build the ‘Luchtsingel’ (a wooden footbridge of 390 meters linking Rotterdam Centre with North). For the construction 17,000 planks are needed. Anyone can participate by sponsoring planks.
This was my article for today
When you are going to visit Rotterdam you really have to go there:)
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