Rietveld Landscape wins Rotterdam Designprijs with Vacant NL
On the 12th of February, after a lively debate with the jury members, the winner of the Rotterdam Design Prize 2011 was announced: "Vacant NL, where architecture meets of ideas by Rietveld Landscape is a political manifesto with a clear format and clear aesthetics. The analog manifestation of something very abstract as space is makes in a physical way a big problem in a small country like the Netherlands very clear.Rietveld Landscape was nominated by Blom & Moors. The international jury consisted of Susan Szenasy, Sebastian Wrong and Lars Müller.
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On Saturday January 28th, Ginette Blom & Jacqueline Moors were guests in the television program AVRO Kunstuur. In the item "Is this design" they explain why they have chosen their 3 nominees. The nominees themselves give a more elaborate explanation of their projects as well.
(the item starts at 15:25 min)