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FOOTBALL STADIUM FEIJENOORD

BRINKMAN & VAN DER VLUGT, 1934-1936, Van Zandvlietplein 1, Rotterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Brinkman & Van der Vlugt

ARTIST:
Hendrik Chabot

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Leen van der Vlugt

ARTIST:
Cor Kraat
Dolf Henkes

BUILDING TYPE:
Sports centres


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Renovation and Extension Stadium Feijenoord

'De Kuip' ('The Tub') has a lower and an upper level of terraces whose continuous curves follow the pitch so as to keep the distance between spectator and game to a minimum. Roofing and upper level are suspended from a cantilevered steel lattice structure. Some 65,000 spectators are able to vacate the stadium in six minutes flat via 22 double steel stairs on its outer face. During a restoration in 1994, the 60-year-old stadium was provided with a new structurally independent roof placed over rather than on the existing component.