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City short: Rotterdam
Offbeat and fiercely committed to the new, Rotterdam is home to a number of respected architects and designers. Here, designers Joep and Jeroen Verhoeven and Judith de Graauw from Demakersvan, architect Reinier de Graaf of OMA and architect Ben van Berkel of UNstudio talk about the city's redevelopment, its diversity and how it inspires their work.
Created by The Office for Nonfiction Storytelling
Directed and edited by Victor Vroegindewey
Photography by Roel van Tour
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