ROTTERDAM/ANTWERP/AMSTERDAM

7 June 2009

Been on the road for some days now. traveled through Rotterdam and Antwerp and now in Amsterdam for the next few weeks.

MVRDV in Rotterdam has been pushing the direction of the new urban housing condition that has been created over the past 30 years.

They renovated the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam where I am now.

Antwerp is the fashion city of Belgium, most of the stores including Dries van Noten are in and around the Nationale straat neighborhood. Also there is a nice Fashion Museum.

Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (ARCAM) is showing an exhibition City on Wheels.

The exhibition about urban space, focusing on the relationship between the ground level and everything that runs and rolls over it focusing on 55 types of wheeled devices and their interaction with the ground.

WILL MEEKER