“All aimless details - which are based on appearance - are often only applied to distract the designer’s incompetence, insensitivity and often also the ignorance. A building can be good without ornament and only by the right proportions can it look balanced. “

-Nico Lansdorp

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Inaugural lecture, Delft University, 1932.

 

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Having been knocked down in the 80’s, a commision was called to reconstruct a new landmark in the place of the old tower of the Amsterdam Markthal, as part of a larger restoration of the building. The proposal was designed to salute the former tower in a contemporary timeless aesthetic to tie together old with new. Visualisations are presented in manually colored archive photos from the 30s and 60s to demonstrate the reinvention of the context in time.