Watermark - NIO Architecten

Watermark is a series of mock-ups of façade panels for a cluster of buildings with divergent functions; a music hall, a national soccer museum, a fast food restaurant, a school, a wellness center and several outdoor activity shops for Middelburg, a Dutch city close to the sea. The panels are embodiments of moods that relate to leisure, crossed with various different characteristics of water: desire-whirl, arousal-cohesion, thrill-humidity, satisfaction-drop, curiosity-drifting, relaxation-rain, joy-floating, excitement-boiling, welcoming-wave, anticipation-ripple.

NIO architecten is a design studio, set up at 2000 by Maurice Nio and since 2003 also led by Joan Almekinders. Maurice Nio (1959) and Joan Almekinders (1969) both graduated as an architect in at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. Projects include the enormous beetle/waste incinerator of Hengelo (The Hulk), the sound-barrier houses in Hilversum (The Cyclops), the Hoofddorp bus station (The Amazing Whale Jaw), the Wasco warehouse on the outskirts of Rotterdam (Black Mothafucka), the cake-like penthouse (A House for Brad Pitt) and the grey-red tunnel in Pijnacker (Touch of Evil).

Venue: CityLab, 4-5 Dalton Square, Lancaster LA1 4PP, 01524 582114

Dates: 29 September – 21 October

12 - 5 pm, Mon – Sat

http://www.nio.nl

http://www.gravotech.nl