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MUSEUM PARK ROTTERDAM

OMA, 1985-1993, Museumpark, Rotterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
OMA

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Rem Koolhaas

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT:
Yves Brunier
Petra Blaisse

EXTENSION:
Paul de Ruiter

BUILDING TYPE:
Landscape architecture


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Kunsthal

Some of the meadowland once belonging to the Van Hoboken family (Land van Hoboken) was given over to villas (https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1469" class="inline_link">Private House Merkes, https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/202" class="inline_link">Private House Boevé, https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/237" class="inline_link">Private House Kraayeveld en https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/201" class="inline_link">Private House Sonneveld) and the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/203" class="inline_link">Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum and some became Museum Park, a classic symmetrical garden with a water feature, terminating in the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1513" class="inline_link">monument to Public Works director G.J. de Jongh. When the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/215" class="inline_link">Kunsthal was built, the rest of the grounds was redesigned to a plan by the French landscape architect Yves Brunier in association with OMA. The area divides into four zones: a museum zone containing the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/215" class="inline_link">Kunsthal and the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/241" class="inline_link">Natural History Museum, a romantic garden, a raised multi-purpose area in black asphalt and a forecourt. In 2006 part of the park was levelled when work began on an underground parking facility by Paul de Ruiter.