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Timmerhuis in Rotterdam
Timmerhuis in Rotterdam by OMA
Design: OMA
Photographs added of this major new building © Ton Hermans:
Empty place behind the Town hall in 2011 where later the new ?Timmerhuis? came:

The construction workers:

In the beginning:

Building under construction:

View from one of the flats:

For Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis, a new building for the city hall that accommodates municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as they rise into two irregular peaks. The building’s composition of smaller cells creates an impressive, complex form when viewed from Coolsingel, one of Rotterdam’s main arteries, and allows for subtlety and adaptability as the new building meets the Stadstimmerhuis (a municipal building, from 1953), which surrounds it on two sides. behind the town hall:

building under construction:

One of the flats, part of the building:

Work is complete:

The Timmerhuis’s innovative structural system generates maximum efficiency and versatility both in construction and in program: un...