22 februari 2022

Reminder

They tower above everything and everyone. As is fitting for a proper chimney. Once built to carry substances away from the power plant. Those were not pleasant substances, so they were blown as high as possible into the Eindhoven air. So that the workers in the many buildings on Strijp-T would suffer as little as possible. Now they don't blow anything out anymore, because the power plant houses design studio Van Berlo). But the chimneys are still there. Fortunately, because they are eye-catchers. But also storytellers, about how things used to be. And sometimes carriers, of projections, during Glow. Versatile in every way, those chimneys.