
Non-descript solid like objects with flush, shiny, metal skins: cloud computing precipitated in the peripheral rural landscape and industry parks of the Netherlands. The architecture of
The exhibition ‘Co-Machines in Eindhoven’ was on display at Onomatopee during the Dutch Design Week 2019 . It was the result of a four-day Co-Machine
The strange habit of 21st century tourists posing in front of ancient monuments is augmented by hundreds of tiny stores all selling the exact same
Two years after the bulletproof walls around the Eiffel Tower have been erected, this compound has become the norm rather than the exception. Walking from
This text was first published in Chepos, built environment magazine, june 27 2019. The Fall of 2016 was the start of a lengthy architectural voyage
Graduation project of Justin Agyin (June 6, 2019) Rotterdam Havenstad is no more and the westward move of the port has allowed for the city
Everybody seems to have a memory or association with these kinds of places. I am talking about the Shell refinery in the Port of Rotterdam, once the biggest refinery in the world, still the biggest oil refinery in Europe. Similar places, like DSM in the south of the Netherlands or the petrochemical complexes in the ports of Antwerp and Hamburg, bring back memories of sitting in the back of your parents’ car while driving back from a summer holiday, in awe of the magically shimmering lights of seemingly endless industrial sites, like technological cities glowing in the evening sky. Inaccessible, almost alienating environments exist behind their gates, unknown to the public yet incredibly important for our daily lives.
Walking through Oud-IJsselmonde (a peripheral neighborhood of Rotterdam) we stumble upon an odd scene. Children are rollerblading down faint asphalt hills, to a background of