Museumpark
Layered city park of orchard, flower garden and ponds, with a hidden storm-water reservoir beneath.
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This guide to Museumpark in Rotterdam starts underground, three floors beneath the lawns and the museum terraces, with a concrete room that spends most of its life empty. It follows the city's long fight with summer cloudbursts, flooded cellars and overflowing canals, and the alderman who first switched the system on in August 2011. Above ground, you'll meet the young French landscape architect Yves Brunier and the park he drew with Rem Koolhaas's office. Best heard by the pond around Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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