365 inspiring days: Wall

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14 december 2013

Day 346 - Photography: architecture, The Hague, Netherlands (2)

The Hague is the seat of the government in the Netherlands.

When I was in The Hague last weekend, I visited the ministry of Finance. The ministry is located in a building that has been renewed in 2011 by Dutch architects Meyer en Van Schooten. They won the PSP award for this project.

I love the colored wall and the court yard. Here are two of my photo's.

27 september 2013

Day 270 - Street art: Kuifje in Brussels

In Brussels there quite a few 'murals' or wall paintings.

A lot of them have "kuifje" as subject. May be you know Kuifje as "tin tin'...

Here's is one of them.

Kuifje, Brussels - phot by 2VORM

9 september 2013

Day 252 - Paris Design Week 2013: Vertical Garden and more

Today is the first day of the Paris Design Week 2013.

One of the projects that can bee seen is L'Oasis d'Aboukir, a vertical garden created by Patrick Blanc.
Patrick Blanc is not only a botanist, he is also the inventor of the Vertical Garden.

L'Oasis d'Aboukir is 25 meteres high (5 floors) and it is made from 7,600 plants.

Photo's by Patrick Blanc

6 september 2013

Day 249 - My visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Yesterday I visitied the Rijksmuseum.

One of the things I really loved was the giant ceiling painting, made by the British artist Richard Wright. He painted more than 47,000 black stars on a white background. What makes is special is that he painted these stars directly onto the ceiling.

13 augustus 2013

Day 225 - Wonder Wall, inspiration at Piet Hein Eek Studio (2)

As I told a while ago, I have been at the Piet Hein Eek Studio in Eindhoven.

The studio is housed in an industrial building at Strijp S. In this studio, Piet Hein Eek shows his furniture designs. Varying from tables, chairs, beds to lamps and cupboards.

In his studio, there is also room for other designers. I already showed you an overview of the painted Wonder Wall by Jan van der Ploeg. Today I will show you some photo's of details of this wall.

23 juli 2013

Day 204 - Wonder Wall, inspiration at Piet Hein Eek Studio

Last Friday, I went to Eindhoven (Netherlands) and visited the studio of Piet Hein Eek, a Dutch interior designer.

The studio is housed in an industrial building at Strijp S: the creative hotspot of Eindhoven.

One of the things I liked very much was the so-called Wonder Wall, designed by Jan van der Ploeg. The wall has a graphic painting on it, is 10 meters long and 3 meters high.

Nice, isn't it?

20 maart 2013

Day 79 - The Berlin Wall (2) - monument of freedom and art

In Berlin remains of the wall cannot only be seen at the East Side Gallery.

Remains of the wall can also be seen at Checkpoint Charlie and the Potsdamer Platz.
At the Potsdamer Platz the remains are covered with graffiti which turns them in
'art' pieces.

Underneath two photos I took myself at the Potsdamer Platz.

19 maart 2013

Day 78 - The Berlin Wall: East Side Gallery

The Berlin Wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989. It was also a symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.

Memories of the Wall, however, are still very much alive. The most famous part is the East Side Gallery,
an international memorial for freedom. The gallery consists of 105 paintings form artists from all over the world.

Part of the East Side Gallery has to be removed to make way to a new bridge and a luxury block of flats. Hundreds of people protest against the demolition work an dhop that the Gallery can be saved...