Boompjes Tower Slab, project, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Perspective
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, born 1944
Madelon Vriesendorp
Dutch, born 1945
Elia Zenghelis
British, born Greece 1937
Zoe Zenghelis
British, born Greece 1937
1981
A watercolor-and-ink perspective by Rem Koolhaas proposing the Boompjes Tower Slab in Rotterdam, aiming to stage a monumental, slab-like cluster of towers as a theatrical re‑imagining of the waterfront.
A vast, empty roadway and a brooding, muted sky push your eye toward a precise, cinematic row of vertical, geometric towers rendered in delicate washes and sharp ink lines, giving the composition a feeling of scale, distance, and staged drama.
The drawing makes visible Koolhaas’s 1980s rethink of urban density and spectacle—using the architectural rendering as a design manifesto that helped open new ways of imagining high‑rise waterfront redevelopment and the role of drawing in citymaking.
Medium
Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions
25 x 35" (63.5 x 88.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Andrew Cogan Purchase Fund
Accession
273.1999
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
