Tornado

The painting shows a spiral construction (the Tornado) that is still under construction in the Fenixloods II in Rotterdam. A group of emigrants is depicted at the bottom left. At the end of this year/beginning of next year, the opening of the Emigrants' Museum is planned in that renovated warehouse.

This will be a museum to commemorate the millions of emigrants who left Europe and Rotterdam behind them in the nineteenth century. The transformation of the Fenix warehouse started in February 2020. The design is by Bureau Polderman and the Chinese MAD Architects.

The Tornado is the spectacular work of art that will soon rise from the roof of the FENIX. The twisted viewpoint was designed by Chinese architect Ma Yansong.

Herbert regularly sees this Tornado under construction on his weekly bike ride to the SS Rotterdam, the famous former cruise ship where he works as a volunteer ship host one morning a week.