{"id":283903,"date":"2026-02-10T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/283903\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:11:09","slug":"danica-o-kus-documents-nederlands-fotomuseum-in-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/283903\/","title":{"rendered":"danica o. kus documents nederlands fotomuseum in rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"

danica o. kus photographs the renewed nederlands fotomuseum<\/p>\n

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Photographer Danica O. Kus <\/a>documents the recently opened Nederlands<\/a> Fotomuseum in Rotterdam\u2019s Rijnhaven district, now occupying a nine-story, early 20th-century coffee warehouse, originally built between 1901 and 1902 to store beans arriving from the Brazilian port city of Santos (find designboom\u2019s previous coverage here<\/a>). Her images<\/a> dwell on the tension between weight and lightness, capturing thick masonry walls and ornamental facades counterbalanced by exhibition spaces. The robust structure of the former warehouse is not erased but reframed, allowing photography to unfold within a calm environment. Climate-regulated galleries, cold storage facilities, and newly visible conservation areas signal the technical upgrade of the building<\/a>, yet Kus\u2019 lens keeps attention on how visitors encounter the work.<\/p>\n

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all images by Danica O. Kus<\/p>\n

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from coffee storage to cultural infrastructure<\/p>\n

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Constructed by Rotterdam architects J.P. Stok Wzn and J.J. Kanters, the Santos warehouse stands as a rare, well-preserved example of early 20th-century port architecture in the Netherlands. Listed as a national monument since 2000, it now integrates contemporary interventions, including a new atrium and a perforated aluminum \u2018crown\u2019 that accommodates offices, a restaurant, and short-stay apartments. The transformation, led by Rotterdam-based WDJArchitecten in collaboration with Hamburg studio Renner Hainke Wirth Zirn, equips the listed monument with advanced conservation facilities while retaining its industrial gravitas.<\/p>\n

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Through architectural photographer <\/a>Kus\u2019 series, the renewed museum emerges less as a spectacle of renovation and more as an infrastructure for attention. The project aligns architectural preservation with archival responsibility, situating photography within a building once dedicated to global trade. In this shift, the Santos warehouse becomes a place housing more than 6.5 million photographic objects, where the material history of the city converges with the evolving language of photography.<\/p>\n

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the perforated aluminum \u2018crown\u2019 rises above the historic brick facade<\/p>\n

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contemporary rooftop extension contrasts with the early 20th-century masonry below<\/p>\n

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original brickwork and green shutters preserve the building\u2019s warehouse identity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"danica o. kus photographs the renewed nederlands fotomuseum \u00a0 Photographer Danica O. Kus documents the recently opened Nederlands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19085,9159,437,434,435,436,49212,438,146,85,46,7429],"class_list":{"0":"post-283903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architectural-photography","9":"tag-architecture-in-the-netherlands","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-danica-o-kus","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-museums-and-galleries"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}