Euromast
Slender concrete observation tower with a hoisted crow's nest restaurant and a soaring steel spire.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Euromast in Rotterdam stays with the tower as a physical object: the steel crow's nest restaurant assembled at ground level in nineteen fifty-nine, and the summer it spent leaving the ground. It touches on Hugh Maaskant's design for the nineteen sixty Floriade, a mayor in an oilskin coat and crash helmet, and two published weights that refuse to agree. Best heard at the foot of the shaft, looking straight up.
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