Architecture Burning!
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Its unbelievable, but it is happening. My school, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, my own little (big actually) temple for architecture is burning down.
This morning around 9:00 a water pipe sprung on the 6th or 7th floor, causing a short circuit in the coffee machine a floor below, which set the fire. Al people are out the building, everybody is save. But the firefighters have left the building cause the construction is in danger, and there is a serious hazard the building might collapse.
If the building totally burns down, including an amazing architecture library, the model collection, a historic collection of architect designed chairs and of course all the computers with their data (cause not everybody will have an off-site back up). And all the student work, especially the grad-students with massive amount of time invested in model-making. And lets not forget the beautiful building itself designed by Van den Broek en Bakema (you learn to love it throughout you study, its part of the education itself).
It’s crazy, luckily nobody got hurt, but that the place will be gone where so much history happened, and where I spent 8 fundamental years of my life is at the moment un-graspable.
