23.01.12

ZigZagCity: discover secret spots in Rotterdam

The new architecture festival ZigZagCity offers an alternative route through the city centre of Rotterdam in the first few weeks of the 5th IABR: Making City.

ZigZagCity shows the city of Rotterdam from a different perspective from Friday 20 April to Sunday 6 May 2012. Discover secret spots in the Lijnbaankwartier that even daily passers-by tend to miss. Architects and visual artists will transform the hidden courtyards and walkways into fun and relaxing places allowing you to escape from the hustle-and-bustle of the city.

The opening of ZigZagCity is on Friday night 20 April (late night shopping) and coincides with the first few weeks of the 5th IABR: Making City. ZigZagCity will connect the central locations of IABR and contribute to the architectural programme of the Motel Mozaïque Festival showing the present, the past and the future of the city in a natural and unique way.

> More information on the website of Rotterdam Festivals (press release).

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