Maarten Struijs, Frans de Wit Windshield Calandkanaal (1985)

Architect Maarten Struijs (Vlaardingen, 1946) obtained his master's degree in Architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam in the 1981s. In XNUMX he joined the municipality of Rotterdam. He was a municipal architect for more than twenty-five years and has worked on numerous designs for government buildings, technical facilities and infrastructure during this period. He designed, among other things, the Hartel barrier, the windscreen on the Calandkanaal, the Flue gas cleaner, the head office of the Police Station and various metro stations, such as Beurs, Tussenwater and Blijdorp. He designed the Randstadrail metro station and the underground bicycle shed at Central Station.

Sculptor and landscape architect Frans de Wit (Leiden, 1942 - there, 2004) studied from 1960 to 1965 at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and was part of the so-called Hague School. Using rudimentary imagery, he formulates a universal story of all times and cultures, of man and nature. His monumental sculptures - in Spaarnwoude and in Prins Alexander - are functional, visual and narrative.