“The jury is impressed by the comprehensive manner in which the Grondstoffenstation provides both content and architectural expression to a regenerative way of dealing with the city. They see an optimistic manifestation of the larger urban system of Rotterdam, where ‘human and non-human lives’, the natural and created circumstances of a place, and all the flows that pass through it, come together. It marks a shift in architecture.”

Download the full jury report on the website of Rotterdam Architectuurpijs.