Thursday, September 15, 2011

Extra flyovers for spaghetti junction Roterdam

Some images by Ossip van Duivenbode immediately taken after the opening.







The first spaghetti junction of the Netherlands Kleinpolderplein is a much hated place and it is the unmistakeable sign you have arrived in Rotterdam, therefore it was decided to clean it up and use it for water storage. Observatorium adds two pedestrian flyovers. A sign will tell the people that Kleinpolderplein will last for another 15 years and that the future ot it is uncertain. Infrastructure park, brutalist zoo? The new flyovers lead you to the top with it's famous view of Rotterdam.
See: http://www.rotterdam.nl/kleinpolderplein















Her is an image of the view we took from Skyscrapercity:



The Netherlands Architecture institute has a permanent collection of possible futures for the cities of Holland, two of them propose ideas for Kleinpolderplein: