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  • Rietveld for Rietveld

    Reported by Marco Velardi, 18 May 2009, 02:13 AM

    Emily King from London just passed me this link and I couldn’t resist posting about it. It’s a petition to prevent the management of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy to leave the original Rietveld building, in Amsterdam, which was designed between 1950 and 1963 and was finished in 1966, and it’s the largest building Gerrit Rietveld ever realized.

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    Today, 18 May, is the 42nd birthday of the building, and the The Rietveld Preservation Society will meet to adorn the building with a human chain: a festoon (‘slinger’) consisting of people, forming a temporary birthday decoration. Worth checking if you are in Amsterdam.