KPN Tower (KPN Telecom Building)
Tilted office tower by Renzo Piano whose sloping facade of nine hundred lamps works as a giant screen.
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This guide to the KPN Tower in Rotterdam follows four winter nights in two thousand seven, when a crew of New York artist-hackers called the Graffiti Research Lab arrived with a green laser pointer and an invitation to tag a telecom headquarters. You'll meet the three people who built their tool, the graffiti writers who travelled from across Europe to try it, and the question of how you cover a tower in graffiti without leaving a mark. Best heard facing the tilted north facade.
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