Toren op Zuid
Rotterdam, Netherlands

HEIGHT: 96m
FLOORS: 23 floors
COMPLETION: ?
ARCHITECT: R. Piano


Pics:
http://www.student.tue.nl/n/r.j.zurhorst/Rotterdam/Fotopaginas/KPN2.jpg
http://www.student.tue.nl/n/r.j.zurhorst/Rotterdam/Fotopaginas/KPN4.jpg
http://www.student.tue.nl/n/r.j.zurhorst/Rotterdam/Fotopaginas/KPN3.jpg

don't like this 5.5/10 but it fits Rotterdam good:)

I don't care for it. A box.

5/10

Pretty strange looking building. Though, I don't like it much. 6.0/10

7.5/10

Unique! It looks like its gonna fall over.

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Oh please... Honestly, what does an architect have to do not to end up with a building you would call...A box.

Does a box have sloping sides? No. This building does.
Angles that aren't straight? Nope, but this building does.
Pillars? Same.
Extended facades? Same.
Setbacks? SAME.

Maybe you should pick up a dictionary and look up the definition of the word "box", because you seem to have no clue of what you are talking about.

I'm just getting a little bit aggitated by everyone who calls a building "just a box". I would recommend savethewtc's thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39318

Toren op Zuid is designed to be the centerpiece icon of Rotterdam's Port, The frontal structure leans 78 degree from the vertical line gives a special contrasting feeling for the irregular shape building and the ground. Instead of using same white-boring concrete wall like the other 3 sides, The leand side has these gorgeous looking green-hollow glass wall panal and the special white circular supported beam pointed in the center point of it..: and makes it looks unstable without avoided any beuty of its. The Remarkable fins that extended from the top is the significant part that make the whole building looks slimmer and taller..Innovatively creative skyscraper!!..9/10

The façade was supposed to have held an 80x40m TV screen (which would have been the largest in Europe), but this proved too expensive and instead a computer-controlled array of 896 green lights was installed.

Hmm, it's a very strange building but I like it. 8/10

5/10...I don't like the sloping front, the colors aren't that great and there's a hole with a huge white stick in the skyscraper! It doesn't look all that nice at night either.

love the form, and of course, the Dutchies doing what they do best, splashing big bold colours everywhere ;)

8

tays

6/10

the front looks nice the rest not

The front is amazing,but the sides are a big turn off.

Very cool!
8.5

4/10 Ugly thing....

Originally posted by renell

don't like this 5.5/10 but it fits Rotterdam good:)


I was about to say something similar. it's interesting, but it's not my cup of tea. it fits well to rotterdam though...kinda plain, modern 6

Despite it is considered a masterpiece, I don't like it

3/10

5.5/10

Sorry I don't like it .

Very unique, but wierd - 5/10

It looks better at night with LED lights racing across the slanted panel. But otherwise this is only a slight variation on the typical boring Rotterdam shoebox. And given the sublime location at the end of the swan-like Erasmus bridge, this is yet another massive blown opportunity. Will Rotterdam EVER get it right???

one of my favorite buildings in the world. i cant really explain it.

Not bad .. 6.5/10

one of the better rotterdam towers. 7

:redx:

Pics please!!

6/10 Not a tower in my taste.

Unstable looking ... and a bit pretentious.

6/10

7/10

It could be incredible without this vertical column in front of the building.

6/10 for this nice building.

Unique, nice cladding but dislike the base and the support pole.
6.5/10

If that stick wasn't there to support it would it fall down? 8/10

Really unusual, but also quite ugly... 6,5/10

Very interesting
7/10

7/10

Nice but not very special in real life. :cheers:

Pretty good. Very unique. A little short though. 7.5/10

6/10

I think It's a nice building, >>> 8

8/10

7.5/10 a bit strange but not a bad idea

i like the front of the building with te lights and that glass, but that's the only thing why i have give it a 7. as you turn and you see the back side, that's so ugly.

http://www.kopvanzuid.info/images/fullsize/0028.jpg

http://www.kopvanzuid.info/images/fullsize/0029.jpg

http://www.photoprop.de/architektur/bild_04.jpg

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tadebruijn/rotterdam/completed/torenopzuid/kpn3.jpg

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tadebruijn/rotterdam/completed/torenopzuid/kpn2.jpg

7/10.

7.5/10

6/10 for this one.

8/10

8/10

7/10

7/10

http://www.skylinecity.info/rotterdam/fotos/hz%20kz%20fotos/kz%20709.jpg http://www.skylinecity.info/rotterdam/fotos/dz%20gz%20fotos/ez%20774.jpg http://www.skylinecity.info/rotterdam/fotos/hz%20kz%20fotos/iz%20969.jpg http://www.skylinecity.info/rotterdam/fotos/dz%20gz%20fotos/gz%20361.jpg

8,5/10

7/10

great design 7.5/10

8/10

8/10

7/10

No visible pics :dunno:

6/10 not too ugly, please... :)

can't see one of al of this photo's, but i know this tower!

8/10

5,5

:redx:

7,5/10

8. Good building. Regards.

8/10

http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2008/06/622856.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2008/05/615080.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2008/10/656581.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/img/6/2006/04/454318.jpg

8/10

voted 5.5/10

8/10

7/10 :)

6.5

7/10

6/10

7.5/10

6/10

http://www.vangoolelburg.nl/_file_preview.php?mod_pid=1709&pos=1
Interesting. 8/10

7.5

new pics: :)

http://i42.************/2mwassx.jpg

It will be completely overwhelmed by de Rotterdam:
http://i45.************/1ytgux.jpg

8/10

7.5

Very weird looking building, 5/10

6/10