Showing posts with label Erasmus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erasmus. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Rotterdam #2...

Rotterdam is a city of contrasts. Amidst the high rise buildings there will be a quiet square and a survivor of the bombing...

Laurenskerk
17C statue of Erasmus outside Laurenskerk.
Dutch parents tell their children that Erasmus turns a new page every day :-)


Het Witte Haus - first Dutch 'skyscraper'
Everywhere there are public sculptures...

Naum Gabo 1957

Picasso outside  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 


Very poignant - war-related
Outside the Kunsthal
And always the maritime presence...

Maritime museum

From the Willemsbrug
I like the contrasts. I like the new juxtaposed with the old. There is little consistency in the Rotterdam architecture - but there is an energy and vibrancy.