Uncontrollable forest fires in the Mediterranean, devastating flooding caused by freak summer rainfall in Germany and China and deadly Category 4 hurricanes in Central and North America. The series of natural disasters witnessed across the world in recent months shows that global climate change is not a theory or something of the future, but is happening now and requires action, including from architecture. But what should we do? A possible answer floats in the former industrial harbour, Rijnhaven, on the south of the Maas river in Rotterdam. It's a wooden building, three storeys high with balconies all around that, protrude ever so slightly upwards like a pagoda. As if it were the first animal stepping on Noah's Ark, a bright red rhinoceros-an artwork by Joep van Lieshout-sits at the end of the terrace that wraps around the building.
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