Thursday, March 8

Rotterdam Architecture




Mind-Boggling Market Building

"The Fire Emperor, a new holding of markets that has taken the shape of a building.
The Fire Emperor has no transparent airy hall on the inside, but is one big, inimitable devouring machine, a hedonic tangle of spaces inspired by intestines. The dazzling diversity of the food on offer is reflected in the festive spirit of the interior design. It is as if the market hall itself has been fattened with interiors that have all nationalities and styles. A corny German-expressionist space is being alternated with an obscure Thai-New Age room. It is a market hall that is not embarrassed of anything and that burps nicely after having consumed yet another stylistic tour de force.

In Rotterdam the team have proposed to locate The Fire Emperor on ‘het Steiger', a spot that, before the war, was one of Rotterdam's most mysterious places but now looks desolate and deluded"

Link

No comments:

Post a Comment