The building’s aerodynamic shape was designed to reduce wind resistance and the vortex action that builds up around super-tall building.
Driven by a “more is more” mantra, developers and architects are using cantilevers to extend the reach of a building, creating unique vistas and extended floor space in a market in which both are priced at sky-high premiums.
De Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands) takes its orientation from the idea of a “vertical city” whose manifold functions appear to be visibly stacked. This 151.3-meter highrise complex consisting of three towers on the Wilhelminapier, Rotterdam’s former port, rises up like a massif. The building’s multi-functionality, its highly compact use of space and its “unsettling beauty” impressed the jury; “a brave, experimental edifice.”
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