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BOOSTER PUMP STATION ZUID
GROUPA, 2002-2006, Spaklerweg/Verl. Van Marwijk Kooystraat, Amsterdam
Boostergemaal Zuid / Booster Pump Station Zuid ( GroupA )
© 2009 Rook & Nagelkerke
This mysterious gleaming object stands at a busy multi-modal traffic intersection. It seems to want to deny its prosaic duties as a sewage pumping station or at least elevate these above workaday reality by resembling a streamlined engine. The rounded stainless steel skin is wrapped tightly about the three pumps and the necessary manoeuvre space in the interior. Something of the object's relationship with the underground sewerage infrastructure is revealed by the pipes leading from it into the ground. At night the once-solid object is reduced to a grid of light lines embedded in the seams.