Gerard Maccreanor revisits the Piraeus building in Amsterdam

Piraeus was the first building on the island to replace the redundant shipping warehouses that it references.

Source: Edward Tyler

Maccreanor Lavington had relocated to the Netherlands when Hans Kollhoff and Christian Rapp’s Piraeus Building was being built in the 1990s. Gerard Maccreanor observes its influence on the practice

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