What Remains

What Remains

The sky is seen reflected in the façades of three former Amsterdam news agencies. Today the offices have been relegated to the city´s outskirts, leaving the ephemeral former architecture a relic of a bygone media era: “That was a time, when a newspaper was still a lord,” we hear an editor intone from offcamera. What Remains is a discerning portrait of architecture and industry under the sign of shifting market logic.

(Diagonale Catalogue 2013)


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