KUNSTHAL, NETHERLANDS, ROTTERDAM, 1992

A museum for temporary exhibitions

The Kunsthal combines 3300 square meters of exhibition space, an auditorium and restaurant into one compact design. Sloping floor planes and a series of tightly organized ramps provide seamless connection between the three large exhibition halls and two intimate galleries. Its position, wedged between a busy highway and the network of museums and green spaces known as the museum park, allows it to function as a gateway to Rotterdam’s most prized cultural amenities.
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FACT SHEET

Project:
A museum for temporary exhibitions

Client:
City of Rotterdam

Year:
1992

Status:
Built

Type:
Museum

Location:
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Site:
60m x 60m area on dyke between major highway and the southern edge of the Museumpark (location of Boymans van Beuningen Museum and Netherlands Architecture Institute), adjacent to the Nature Museum, crossed by a secondary road and a pedestrian ramp

Program:
7,000m2: large hall for traveling exhibitions, three additional galleries, auditorium, independently accessible restaurant

COLLABORATORS

Interior consultants:
Petra Blaisse, Kyoko Ohashi, Hans Werlemann

Collaborating artist:
Gunter Förg (light installation restaurant)

Structural engineers:
Cecil Balmond, Ove Arup; City of Rotterdam

PRESS

“a bold, complex, and exceptional design”

Tracy Metz, Dutch architecture critic

CREDITS

Partner in charge:
Rem Koolhaas

Project Architect:
Fuminori Hoshino

Team:
Tony Adam, Isaac Batenburg, Leo van Immerzeel, Herman Jacobs, Ron Steiner, Jeroen Thomas

PUBLICATIONS

A+U #287, 08/94
Abitare #317, 04/93
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VISIT

Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341,
3015 AA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
www.kunsthal.nl