The Hydra Pavilion of The Netherlands
Posted by Edward Dy on July 20th, 2008
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This structure was built by Asymptote architects of New York as well as co-architect Bronsvoort Blaak - Amerongen. In connection with an international competition, this structure called the HydraPier or the Hydra Pavilion, was created acknowledging and celebrating the fast growing city of Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands.
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Haarlemmermeer is very near Schiphol airport. In contrast to the busy sight large airplanes arriving and leaving the airport as well as the endless streams of cars in the highway, the HydraPier is on an artificial pastoral landscape.
This region once covered by five meters of seawater was reclaimed about 150 years ago. Most of the nineteenth-century dams and pumping stations are still with us today. The HydraPier is an architecture representing the battle between land and water, nature and technological advancement.
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