16 august:

http://i37.tinypic.com/i1fs6a.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/2nr32bm.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/f0otqq.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/f9iq28.jpg

Fantastic highrise, almost finished now - can't wait!!

it suites perfect in the Rotterdam's skyline! nice contrast with the other buildings, perfect combination between structure and architecture! can't wait to see it finished!

it's u're opinion. love it or hate it.

i dont understand how anyone can find this building anything but ugly.
its a horrible shape with retarded shaped twizzlers running up the sides.
it looks like a horrible piece of 60s furniture on steroids.
Well a lot of people do find it a nice building, so not everybody has your opinion. It's something different yes, better then all those grey boxes you see in every big city. We could use some colour in my opinion.

Well a lot of people do find it a nice building, so not everybody has your opinion. It's something different yes, better then all those grey boxes you see in every big city. We could use some colour in my opinion.

I agree. ya know Baltimore reminds me of Rotterdam - both are harbor cities and have colorful and quirky skylines :cheers:

^ And Baltimore-Rotterdam have a city partnership in case you didn't know! :)

this is really starting to look brilliant.a nice splash of colour for Rotterdam

oh my god.

this is the ugliest building ive ever seen in my life. what are they thinking building this junk? what an eyesore.

HOW can you seriously say that?! Am i seeing something completely different when I look at this to you? Becasue what I see is an elegant tower with a beautiful sinuous, organic pattern of soaring verticality, great bold and tasteful colours that fits into its skyline context very well in proportion, in how its colours interact with the colours of its neighbours. I love this building, I think its really exciting without being so outrageous and 'of its time' that it will go out of date - I dont think it will.

Couldn't agree with you more steppenwolf!!!! ^^

HOW can you seriously say that?! Am i seeing something completely different when I look at this to you? Becasue what I see is an elegant tower with a beautiful sinuous, organic pattern of soaring verticality, great bold and tasteful colours that fits into its skyline context very well in proportion, in how its colours interact with the colours of its neighbours. I love this building, I think its really exciting without being so outrageous and 'of its time' that it will go out of date - I dont think it will.

wonderfull speaking!:)
he just doesn't know what to see when looking at this building.

True, just look at my 3rd picture to see how much color it adds to the skyline. The fact that the vertical lines are not straight is only an extra to its beauty. :)

I lke the low-rise cubic part. The highrise tower is buttugly! :puke:

31.08:

01.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_31082008.jpg

02.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_3108200802.jpg

Looks like a toy tower.. kinda weird but not ugly.

5 september:

http://i33.tinypic.com/2agumwi.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/2dcftp3.jpg

Only a couple of floors cladding to go, this baby is almost finished!! ^^

:cheers:

The more often I see this tower, the more I like it!

:cheers:

hmm, I'd like to take a bite out that red apple!

Taken today, 09.09:

01.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_09092008.jpg

02.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_0909200802.jpg

Second picture is sweet!!! ^^

:cheers:

11.09:

01.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_1109200802.jpg

02.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_11092008.jpg

Almost finished! :D Thanks for the excellent updates Marin :)

13 september:

Cladding of the lowrise block.
http://i34.tinypic.com/24dqa91.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/2csiiar.jpg

Red Apple on dope:
http://i33.tinypic.com/r1bnmd.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/2qa4ug1.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2r56hzd.jpg

13 september:

Cladding of the lowrise block.
http://i34.tinypic.com/24dqa91.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/2csiiar.jpg


^^details just like in the render! nice:cheers:

Another pic of the The Red Apple:

http://207.44.228.232/images/B03/3538.jpg

taken today. Construction of the cladding at the top 3 floor has resumed:

http://i37.tinypic.com/254zv9f.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/2exye5s.jpg

Cool update, only 2 floors of cladding to go!!!! ^^

Cool update, only 2 floors of cladding to go!!!! ^^
Three.

It will be one of the coolest towers.

i don't like it

Of corse, in the 3th world like Urugvay everything is better.:lol:

Of corse, in the 3th world like Urugvay everything is better.:lol:

You say this because you live in 4th world ? or what? He just wrote his opinion,men Chill out!

yesterday

1.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/d8bcdf46.jpg

2.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/90bec367.jpg

3.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/8c8651b9.jpg

4.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/fa892535.jpg

5.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/33a7a919.jpg

6.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/1d3e7612.jpg

7.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/16b3ec01.jpg

8.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/d0f8b434.jpg

9.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/9b91d9cc.jpg

10. En nog een paar van verderaf

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/949c9379.jpg

11.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/714077c4.jpg

12.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/d3f1bb68.jpg

13.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/5d0798b1.jpg

14.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/b02eff68.jpg

15.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/momo1435-2/e3621cb5.jpg

Nice update Momo1435, thanks for posting!!!! ^^

:cheers:

3 october:

http://i38.tinypic.com/2hiateu.jpg

almost there. :cheers:
http://i33.tinypic.com/29xajbl.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/14mz19w.jpg

Installing the cladding:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2rrncdl.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/2li7gcp.jpg

Nice to see this tower almost finished, since it's a really classy addition to Rotterdam's skyline (Europe's best residential highrise skyline).
The design isn't spectacular but still very classy IMO, i like the dutch residential architecture a lot, and IMO this tower is one of the best examples of it, the vertical red strips make a nice contrast to the glass facade, and also to the other highrises.

10 october:

http://i34.tinypic.com/s24rpd.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/2w3dt6p.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/a29izo.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/10rl0zl.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/nq5rvl.jpg

10.10:

01.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_10102008.jpg

02.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/Wijnhaeve_1010200809.jpg

nearly finished :banana:

Cool update!! ^^

:cheers:

^^ Those pictures are taken from the Wijnheave (85 meters or something? forgot its height). Also under construction.

I want to ask you something. Which tower in Rotterdam is the tallest?

^^ Montevideo at 152 meter.
Soon, the Maastower will become the tallest with 165 meter. :)

Thanks for answer.

great tower

^^ Montevideo at 152 meter.
Soon, the Maastower will become the tallest with 165 meter. :)

^^ But the Delfts ePoort is 151 andf doesnt have a huge M on it wich makes it the talles :P.

And besides that the Euromast is a building too isnt it? That one is 185m :P

Thanks for all the updates. I really like this project.

Wat een pareltje :)

Jan made this great photo of The Red Apple:

http://www.fotosvanrotterdam.nl/pix/02/2174.jpg

Amazing picture!!!! ^^

:cheers:

Beautyful and colourful pic. :okay:

Love the personal picture rutger1991.

Thank you.

1 november:

http://i37.tinypic.com/206gf1x.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/352n96f.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/53k8wk.jpg

From the Rotterdam section of SSC

Een regenachtige update van vandaag (01-11):

01. De glazen pui en de ingang van de toren:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2375/1puilq2.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8022/2inganglw7.jpg

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5065/2ingang2dx2.jpg

02. Het kopblok:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3706/3kopblokra1.jpg

03. De toren met kraan:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2531/4kraanjm1.jpg

04. Wachtende geveldelen:

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/386/6deeldv7.jpg

05. En TRA nog een keer volledig in beeld:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8963/7tratn4.jpg

it s a beauty already!
what about the clading part from the middle of the lowrise, i do not see any windows...is there a multilevel parking space?

^^

Yes that part is parking, in Rotterdam we have to deal with at least 1,5 parkings for every apartment, that is a huge designproblem in many big projects. But there is no parking on the ground floor.

It's as good as finished :cheers: Only the lowrise part is not finished yet :)

what about the antenna on the top,is it still planned !!

Voorwaar: Hierdie is nie 'n mooi gebou nie! Werklik vreemd, en lyk nogal oud ook.

I love it... :cheers:

Voorwaar: Hierdie is nie 'n mooi gebou nie! Werklik vreemd, en lyk nogal oud ook.

In het Nederlands is twee keer niet zeggen een dubbele ontkenning dus een bevestiging ;)

In het Nederlands is twee keer niet zeggen een dubbele ontkenning dus een bevestiging ;)

maar dit is nie Nederlands wat ek praat nie... Inderdaad Afrikaans. En in Afrikaans geld die dubelle negatief wel - so ek was nie verkeerd nie! Ten minste kan ons mekaar verstaan!

ek het jou verstaan ;)

klopt dat?

dat klopt.

is there allready a buyer for the top floor !!

NVM

09.11:

01.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_0911200802.jpg

02.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_09112008.jpg

03.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_0911200803.jpg

04.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_0911200804.jpg

05.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_0911200805.jpg

Awsome pictures !!

The crown just makes it even better - stunning tower! And wonderful photos :okay:

:banana:it looks even better than the renders

Awesome pictures!!!! ^^

Oef! Das wel heel erg fel rood! Doet bijna pijn aan de ogen.

I see you understand the art of exaggerating ;)

Oef! Das wel heel erg fel rood! Doet bijna pijn aan de ogen.


ek stem saam. Maar benewens die oogpyn begin ek eintlik van die gebou hou! dit is wel een verskriklike rooi struktuur!

ek stem saam. Maar benewens die oogpyn begin ek eintlik van die gebou hou! dit is wel een verskriklike rooi struktuur!

maby in the hear future there will be more of these colourfull buildings !!

16 november:

http://i33.tinypic.com/qrycqx.jpg

density:
http://i33.tinypic.com/jij6kw.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/dm32fm.jpg

Pictures from forummer Topaas:

15-11:

1.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1088/redappleuy2.jpg

2.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6660/redapple2zn9.jpg

3.
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9382/redapple3yo7.jpg

4.
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9025/redapple4xn1.jpg

Awesome project. Great addition to Rotterdam's skyline, it's good to see it topped out.

the lower part(kopblok) is also allmost finished !

22 november:

http://i38.tinypic.com/1037h3t.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/286x3xh.jpg

da is n hiele mooi rood appel! ie is eel mooi keworde, dank vor dien keweldieke updeet

the last one is pretty

I don't really like the look of that building. No offense, but it looks really ugly. :ohno:

^^ Why is it looking ugly?

da is n hiele mooi rood appel! ie is eel mooi keworde, dank vor dien keweldieke updeet

You think you are funny? Talk in english here.

http://i38.tinypic.com/1037h3t.jpg

Nice tower :)

Btw: I counted 40 floors with the top floor

I like it

2 more gorgeous pics from imbyp:

een klein stukje appel

http://i33.tinypic.com/68focx.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/352lveo.jpg

Btw: I counted 40 floors with the top floor

That number is correct, we probably never thought about changing that in the topic title. :)

it looks higher than 130m

anyway it's definetely cool

yes it's becourse the tower is quit narrow(about 20x20 metres wide) but it aint the narrowest in this city,the scheepmakerstoren on the rightside of the picture is even narrower !!

You think you are funny? Talk in english here.

no, but i try to talk african, because there is a african guy here. ok??:bash:

29 november:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2s0l6bq.jpg

With this neighbor waterstadtower:
http://i34.tinypic.com/1fcx8p.jpg

Coole updates Eric Offereins, especially photo 2

I'm really surprised with this tower, didn't expect that would look so good :)

good... you mean fantastic !

What a surprise!

This tower certainly turned out far better than I was expecting. :cheers: Congratulations Rotterdam!!!

^^i agree

it looks higher than 130m

Especially in this picture the tower looks like 200 m or even more.

http://i38.tinypic.com/1037h3t.jpg

Outside looks complete. Seems inside still is u/c ...

^^i agree

You've made your point more then once. Is it really necessary to comment on each post?

Outside looks complete. Seems inside still is u/c ...

Just a few plates to go and it is done.

6 december:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2rm3vyg.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/10glgyw.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/3acm8.jpg

Eric, you could make your own gallery of pictures on photo subforum. Your pics are great.

I have a question: I see there is a not cladded area on the low-rise building. What is its purpose?

/\ I would think that's the parking garage part.

Turned out to be quite nice. But I am really surprised that it is possible to sell highrise apartments without balcony in the Netherlands. That would be impossible in Germany.
I personally can't imagine to live in such an apartment without possibility to sit on the balcony and get fresh air.

[QUOTE=Eric Offereins;29023588]6 december:
/QUOTE]

bellisimas piks:nuts::nuts::nuts::)

@mlm-thanks for the reply

Turned out to be quite nice. But I am really surprised that it is possible to sell highrise apartments without balcony in the Netherlands. That would be impossible in Germany.
I personally can't imagine to live in such an apartment without possibility to sit on the balcony and get fresh air.

This tower will have what we call French balconies: large (1 storey high) opening windows with a fence.
You can see them in the tower in my last pic.

This tower will have what we call French balconies: large (1 storey high) opening windows with a fence.
You can see them in the tower in my last pic.

A friend of mine has such French balconies also. She lives in Wiesbaden. And the apartments are great. :cheers:

nice pictures

the tower looks great, and outstanding

great updates, the 2nd picture i like most it's taken from the willemsbridge !

From my last pics, i like the 1st one most, it has all what Rotterdam is about: Water, the port, modern skyline and traditional buidlings

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weird... colorful...

Unfortunately a little bit blurred:

1.
http://i38.tinypic.com/51suub.jpg

2.
http://i34.tinypic.com/1nzc4p.jpg

3.
http://i35.tinypic.com/2lbooed.jpg

4. last weekend:
http://i38.tinypic.com/2ebzrkj.jpg

cool updates Oh?! , especially the nightskyline pics !

http://timdebruijn.eu/Rotterdam%20updates/101208/whe-cluster.jpg

http://timdebruijn.eu/Rotterdam%20updates/101208/panorama2.jpg

Great photo's Skyscrapercitzen ,the red apple fits perfectly in the skyline of my favorite city !

^^
do you really have to react on every picture?

its so irritating :S

is there something wrong with posting on this forum or what:ohno:, i post whenever i want !!!

Well the amount of useless post that have no other content then "nice pictures' etc is just to much. It is bordering spam. You don't have to keep bumping threads with useless content. And considering many people find it annoying and tell you to stop posting should be a hint.
Feel free to post as much as you want in the discussion sections of the forum, but this is for updates. Please from now on only post occasionally or when you have an update.

I'm annoyed by all the people bashing citysight! When posting pictures it's nice if people react instead of ignore...

Last too pics are indeed great, as far as I remember, I've never seen the Rotterdam skyline from such an angle:)

Nice photos, haven't seen this angle before on Rotterdam skyline and I've seen a lot angles.

Taken today, 19.12:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_19122008.jpg

^^ That is one hell of a shot. Great lighting. TRA really stands out. :cool:

Taken today, 22.12:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_22122008.jpg

great photo Marin!

did you take it? from a boat??

I wouldn't call this one completed yet. The cladding is not entirely done and the building is not handed over yet.

From the Dutch section:

http://i40.tinypic.com/ajt0lk.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/nb6q8g.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/2gsopau.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/2wnyc60.jpg

Taken by me today:

http://i40.tinypic.com/nestz.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/30wmowk.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/efkvpz.jpg

28.12:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_28122008.jpg

Taken today, 26.01:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_26012009.jpg

that's orginal... but a bit odd...

last saturday:

http://i42.tinypic.com/ic5yrq.jpg

Taken today:

http://i44.tinypic.com/2v15lk8.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/3160upz.jpg

From the dutch forum:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5974/toren2qt0.gif

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6162/toren3my0.gif

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9451/toren4xq2.gif

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2315/toren5vs4.gif

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8515/toren6ss7.gif



http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9468/toren14bx3.gif

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8813/toren15qo2.gif

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8162/toren16ue7.gif

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7075/toren17oc1.gif

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/4454/toren18ul7.gif

Very nice scraper!

Just find it odd, seems like the Maersk building is a lot larger than the headquarters in Copenhagen:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/466335309_2f53f7483e.jpg?v=0

/\ It's because it an "old" PO Nedlloyd building.

There are also more companies than just Maersk which occupy this building. :) But the red apple is a beauty

7 feb :)

http://i42.tinypic.com/fvydd4.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/2hzmvrk.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/123wjg2.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/14kwnpl.jpg

Nice pics. Low rise part almost finished :)

This building turned out great. I'd love to have something like this in Los Angeles.

taken today: :)

http://i40.tinypic.com/2uf4pj4.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2wdwmps.jpg

Taken today, 11.03:

01.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_10032009.jpg

02.
http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_1003200903.jpg

Taken today:

http://i42.tinypic.com/xpzepj.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ir8cug.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2iscugw.jpg

Nice update!!! :okay:

Vandaag / Heute / Today / Aujourd'hui

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd284/Gerritzzz/IMG_3056.jpg

I really like this tower!

This is one of my favorite highrises in the world.

18.03:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/Rotterdam_18032009.jpg

^^ Awesome aerial photo. :okay:

The final result of TRA is much better than expected. I was afraid the intensive red colour might disturb the skyline of Rotterdam, but this tower fits perfectly at this location.

^^ it was taken from the Maastower. :)

Taken today:

http://i44.tinypic.com/ir3lh4.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/15z1q2g.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/v2z8cm.jpg

That's what I call a nice tower. I love the irregular shape of the red colums :okay:

taken today:

http://i44.tinypic.com/3449xfq.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/svpf7o.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/314qnx1.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/30tpfeh.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/rqwxna.jpg

Damn ugly

Taken today, 02.04:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_02042009.jpg

april 3rd:

http://i44.tinypic.com/axkvh4.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/2z7hbft.jpg

Good photos. I like this tower! Rotterdam is becoming better and better.

08.04:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_08042009.jpg

Interesting details on facade. I dont like the project as a whole, but i do like that detailed work on red facade !

Taken today, 10.04:

http://207.44.228.231/marin/TRA_10042009.jpg

Oh man, this is really ugly
again a project where the architect thought, his design would take the cake ...

^^

Maybe you have bad taste since everybody I know loves this project.


Yesterday:
1
http://i40.tinypic.com/aka8wl.jpg

2
http://i39.tinypic.com/2j3191w.jpg

3
http://i39.tinypic.com/2aih3xw.jpg

4
http://i41.tinypic.com/27ybg4m.jpg

5 Bonus:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2d15i84.jpg

I don't know what I should think about this project... but I probably like it :)

^^haha yeah. I'm like...I have no idea why I like this or should I even like this. And I'm thinking...would I hate this if it wasn't for the red?!?!?!?!

I will say I do love the shifting in the red panels up the facade for sure! Its so childish and playful!!! Gutsy and very successful move :D

its really fantastic complex!

This one I took from April 10th.
Everybody has a right for their opinion of course. I think it's a very sexy and
attractive tower and anyone who sees it in real will be blown away:)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2879/img0957.jpg (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0957.jpg)

taken today, 13 april. :)

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^^

Maybe you have bad taste since everybody I know loves this project.



Only having an other oppinion doesn't automatically means that I have a bad taste. I don't like this thin red displaced cladding looking as if this buiding is captured by straws - because I have just "another" taste. ;)

No, you have a bad taste. Capice? ;)

No. My taste is to good to admire the ugly. Capice?

Can you explain what you think is so ugly about this?

sure just for you :)

There is actually one thing on this tower, waht I like. -> It looks higher, than it is. But thats all I like...

What I don't like is the complete appereance, because

1970 was long ago. And obvios we have a 1970 box here. Yes, boxes are often really boring. But you can pimp boxes up with claddings or the material, which is used and it's possible to get a real interesting and beautiful building. The solution taken in this case, to pimp the style of this tower is unfortunate. The thin red dissorted lines looks as if they wedge the tower like the three killing climbing plants in the rainforest and addionally they are red (crying for attention?) like veins or like blood, so my second association is a bleeding tower.
And I compare it to other projects. Not in the word but in Rotterdam and there are some really great project on the running like the maastower, so the red apple looks even worse to me.
Always when I look at this pictures I see the architect on his desk, planning
"I good a damn box. Boxes are out. So I make a red cladding, red is good, red is color wich attracts attention (is begging for attention would be the better word) and to make it more interesting the cladding will be a bit dissorted - that's design, baby!"
Okay, I don't know him so it's unfair to think so. But unfortunatly I do.
A boring box, crying for attention by a wrong way. It makes the tower ugly and uninspired as well as looking like missing the target for me.

But, call it "bad taste". I don't care ;)

^^

It seems that you don't like it because you think you shouldn't like it (rationally). That explains al lot to me. :cheers:

Besides that your analysis of the architect is wrong. Here the website for you: http://www.kcap.eu/

There is hard work gone into it by architects. I still don't like it very much.

blablaba

But, call it "bad taste". I don't care ;)

You've got a point there, but the simplicity of its shape is one of the features I like about this tower.

I am not sure if the lines pattern would have worked on an oval or circular shaped tower. I doubt it.
it sure does on a flat surface, the more how closer you get.

Only having an other oppinion doesn't automatically means that I have a bad taste. I don't like this thin red displaced cladding looking as if this buiding is captured by straws - because I have just "another" taste. ;)

By the way, the fact that I think you have bad taste is just another opinion as well, based on the fact that almost everyone in the city I know likes it a lot, also represented in the speed of selling the apartments. :cheers:

Well I have exceptionally good taste... probably the best taste of anyone here, and I think its a great tower. Slim, elegant, playful, tasteful, works well on the skyline context. I like it very much. I cant tell how well it works close up, but usually architecture in this partof the world is miles ahead of everywhere else in terms of quality detailing.

Well I have exceptionally good taste...
Such oppinions are always subjective. My oppnion is subjective, too ;) But I think to deal with this subject is too much Off-Topic and you are getting bored by my perpetual nagging. So I leave here, because I don't wat to spoil your party :)

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Taken by one of the occupants: :)

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17 april by me:

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Taken yesterday, 21.04:

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This has got a non-European look and I find it fascinating. :)

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In the twilight.

we are beginning to see the first lights from the occupants inside. :)

I seriously love this tower.
The shape and architecture isn't even that great, but the color is beautifull and fits perfectly with the rest of the area.

Marin's pics show this very good.
Amazing pictures Marin, good job! I'm glad people like you take the time to make these pictures for people who don't live in Rotterdam to see. :D

it´s too boxy...

it´s too boxy...

Doesn't take away that it's a beautifull tower in it's area. :)

Doesn't take away that it's a beautifull tower in it's area. :)

beautyful???:ohno::nuts: likes are a subjetive thing, i know... but that tower is one of the bunch ...

It's the only red tower with a unique facade in the city ;)

interesting color, i love the red color, its the most tallest building?

^In Rotterdam? No. The Red Apple is 128m high. We have towers of 165m, 153m, 154m and more.

Really? They must be built in one day then 'cos as far as I know we only have one of 165m under construction (currently 157m), one of 151 and 152m.

^I was kinda quessing, didn't want to look up the heights. But I did know wich towers, the Maastower (yes u/c), Delftse Poort and Montevideo. I was close.

Oh well, doesn't matter if it's u/c since the Maastoren is almost done. :D

I love the colors... and the shape. Congrats to Rotterdam :okay:

taken today, may 9th:
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finishing touch:
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KCAP completes residential high rise development The Red Apple

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com (http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11768)

Set in the prime location on Wijnhaven Island,located between Rotterdam’s city centre and the river Maas and with water on three sides, The Red Apple is a nod towards the shipping industry of Rotterdam. Its design presents the vision of stacking containers, a void creating an assimilation of movement from the upper to the lower.

The 124 m high design by KCAP Architects&Planners encompasses 231 apartments, offices, retail and restaurants on a total gross floor area of 35.000 m2

Wijnhaven Island is being redeveloped using a dynamic transformation model, which provides development guidelines that ensure a balance between new and existing construction as well as the preservation of fine views and sufficient incidence of daylight throughout the area. "By applying this model, its redevelopment substantially increases the area’s capacity and improves the residential and environmental quality while preserving important qualities of the existing situation," states KCAP architect Han van den Born.

In the upper block building, apartments of various sizes are grouped around a central atrium. Thanks to large apertures in the facade, this atrium also offers a stunning vista across the city. The southwest corner of the site is occupied by a slender apartment tower with a spacious glazed lobby as ground-floor entrance and live/work loft spaces on top. The levels 8 through to 40 contain apartments of various sizes. All apartments of the two volumes are diagonally oriented and offer a maximum of transparency via floor-to-ceiling glass and provide extraordinary views.

The Red Apple is accentuated in Rotterdam’s skyline by its ‘red striped’ façade pattern. The tower reveals the red bands as vertical lines which decrease in width towards the top to support its slender appearance. The block building is defined by horizontal layers. The red bands are formed by aluminium panels which gain their colour through anodizing without any other colour treatment. In the tower, they contain the load bearing structure of the façade and adapt in width to the increasing load towards street level.

The lifestyle concept and interior have been developed in cooperation with Jan des Bouvrie.

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Rotterdam looks like a beautiful city; I may need to check it out on my next European vacation.

yep, residents are moving in, there is only some work left on the lowrise part where shops and commercial space will come. :)

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This one is great !!!

Regards.

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Great Shots Marin!

I think Rotterdam has the nicest highrise buildings and skyscrapers. I like especialy those slim ones, like this. It's realy nice, elegant and modern. I should make a trip to Rotterdam.

what a good looking building! i think this is one of the best highrises ive evern seen :yes:

even though elevation of this building is simple, however the building have an unique cantilever and contextual design as a corner building. beside of that, red colour make the building being a vocal point in Rotterdam. .....great and interesting..

27 june visit:

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14th floor of the midrise part:
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views:
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From the parking deck:
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The 37th floor views:
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Inside an apartment:
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i love this building and i think that the color fits perfectly