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Hook of Holland

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Hook of Hol·land  (hk; hlnd) also Hoek van Hol·land (hk vän hôlänt)
A cape and harbor of southwest Netherlands on the North Sea west of Rotterdam, for which it serves as a port.
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Noun1.Hook of Holland - a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam
Hoek van Holland
Holland, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Nederland, Netherlands, The Netherlands - a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level
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In the famous Modern Architecture exhibition at MoMA in 1932, he and Henry-Russell Hitchcock placed Oud's radical housing precincts at the Hook of Holland and Kiefhoek, and his terrace of five minimal dwellings at the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung, side-by-side with works by Mies, Gropius and Le Corbusier.
OUD REASSESSED by RYAN, RAYMUND / The Architectural Review
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