Uploaded on 2017-12-19 by Sietse Touker

This picture shows a new building along Vlaszak in the city center of Breda, the Netherlands. New buildings in the Netherlands have to be build according to strong regulations which are designed around western construction methods. Think of insulated glazing, modern ventilation, reinforced concrete, automated doors connecting to an indoor parking garage. All these components originate from a global construction industry. Interesting is that great effort is taken in minimizing the look and feel of these modern construction methods by building the facade out of original looking bricks, which are manufactured in the Netherlands, from dutch river clay. In the olden days the bricks would have formed a key role in the buildings structure, now it merely serves a key role in altering the identity and aesthetics of the building, to hide the modern globalized construction methods which lay behind the brick work.