Hans EverhardtThe destruction of Daniel Libeskind’s landscape artwork
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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 16:21
Unknown people have caused serious damage to the landscape artwork in Almere Polderland Garden of Love and Fire by the famous architect Daniel Libeskind. A number of the aluminum plates that form the artwork are bent, broken or otherwise destroyed.
Bee Broadcasting Flevoland witnesses speak of a serious explosion at the artwork on the night from Saturday to Sunday. The municipality of Almere confirms the destruction, but cannot yet say anything about the cause.
The artwork dates from 1997 and consists of dozens of aluminum plates, which together form a kind of labyrinth. Libeskind (1946) is best known in the Netherlands for the Holocaust Names Monument in Amsterdam, which was completed in 2021.
In Berlin he designed a new wing of the Jewish Museum, in New York he created the master plan for the new World Trade Center area after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The police cannot yet say anything about the investigation into the destruction in Almere. The aluminum plates were also destroyed once in 2015. To prevent vandalism, the municipality had tree trunks placed so that cars could no longer enter the site. The ditches near the artwork were also deepened.
2023-12-25 15:21:46
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