Podcast: Toren van Babel, with Nanne de Ru on designing, developing and building high-rise

In the Architectenweb podcast Toren van Babel, host Daan Roggeveen (MORE Architecture) talks to Nanne de Ru, architect, developer and builder, and co-founder of Powerhouse Company, RED Company and Construction Company.

The conversation covers high-rise as an architectural typology, the Amstel Tower in Amsterdam, the founding of RED Company with Niels Jansen, and projects such as the Bunker Tower in Eindhoven and The BaanTower in Rotterdam. Nanne explains why RED became both developer and builder, to keep control over quality, and shares the ambition to set up in New York.

The episode is in Dutch. Idea and presentation: Daan Roggeveen. Production: Lieven Heeremans. Music: Job Roggeveen.