Comments on: Fort Cortina by Karelse & den Besten

By: Onelab

Onelab — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:14:01 +0000

@hogarismo:
I'm curious as to why you would never use bricks to build the facade of on office building? In the Netherlands is pretty common to use this.
@Alex:
I agree, Exterior is nice but the interior is no way near as nice. It's very common and boring. Absoluty no reference to the facade. Especially the courtyards are very poor.
The would have been better off working together with an interior designer and a good gardenarchitect.
Looking at the plan, so much more could have been done with natural lighting and see throughs.
It's to bad they didn't exaggerate the fort-theme more

By: nick austin

nick austin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:11:24 +0000

I agree. Inside and out it says 'Young Offenders Institute' The light well/courtyard area is particularly grim.

By: henry ford

henry ford — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:20:08 +0000

a long time ago in britain there was a car named the ford cortina
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu…

By: alex

alex — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:46:12 +0000

The interior detailing is horrible – ugly, dated and depressing; certainly not what you'd expect from that first photo. A great building to walk past on the street but a very poor one to work in.

By: Edwardrich

Edwardrich — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:47:25 +0000

the designs is amazing just love it.Both interiors & exteriors are awesome