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Museumplein 09/05/2020 17h26
Minding his own business...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
07/12/2016, on her very last voyage to Treffers demolition, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Keel laid during March 1974, launched on 07/06/1974 and completed on 10/07/1974.
Hull built in 1974 by Nieuw Noord Nederlandsche, Groningen, Netherlands (381).
Completed by Pattje, Waterhuizen, Netherlands (303) as a tug/offshore supply vessel.
476 g.t. and 797 dwt., as:
'Normand Carrier' to 1989,
'Scott Protector' to 2004,
'Dea Protector' to 2009 and
'Vos Dee' until arrived Haarlem, Netherlands for demolition on 07/12/2016.
Converted in 1991 to a standby safety vessel of 499 g.t.
Photos with full permission of Willem Koper.
Dubbed the ‘most beautiful spring garden in the world’ Keukenhof Gardens, situated in the Dutch town of Lisse, becomes a myriad of colour for just eight weeks a year.
An incredible seven million bulbs are planted annually throughout the 79-acre park, with bright pink tulips, golden daffodils and deep blue-hued hyacinths becoming just some of the floral star attractions in the seven themed gardens on show here.
Museumplein 10/03/2022 15h30
Not smart focussed...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Arachnaphobia 23/08/2020 15h44
I just took this photo at home. As a kind of therapy. Have had some form of arachnaphobia all my life. I know all about the use of spiders, but it scares me. I have allowed this friendly spider in my living room. Has a nice web where I view and admire him. The beauty is clear to me. But it remains ... a spider!
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where are you now, Dr. Makky?
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This complex of buildings houses The Netherlands federal government officials. Some buildings date to the late 1200s.
Keizersgracht 11/11/2016 13h41
Life is beautiful...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Damrak 05/12/2020 13h02
Keeping up appearances...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Rokin 15/04/2020 09h56
One of the positive sides of the corona virus and crisis is the possibility ot taking pictures of places and buildings without people and monster crowds. Normally this part of the Rokin is crowded 24/7 but on this morning almost nobody. Except the photographer and some more.
Rokin
The Rokin is a canal and major street in the centre of Amsterdam. The street runs from Muntplein square to Dam square. The Rokin canal used to run from Muntplein square to Dam Square, but in 1936, the part between Spui square and Dam Square was filled in. On the remaining part of the water, canal boats are now moored.
Originally it was part of the river Amstel, and was known then as Ruck-in (from 'inrukken', which means 'to withdraw', as some of the houses on the Amstel had to be shortened to construct the quays there in the 16th century.
During the ongoing construction of the North-South line, a new metro line, archeologists dug down to a depth of approximately 20 meters on the Rokin. The archeological finds in what used to be the Amstel river are expected to shed new light on the history of Amsterdam and on the landscape and environment of the area in the millennia that preceded the founding of the city.
The Mirakelkolom, which normally stands on the Rokin, was temporarily removed during the construction of the metro line. The Mirakelkolom is a stone column made up of remnants of the Heilige Stede (Nieuwezijds Kapel), a chapel built to commemorate the 1345 Mirakel van Amsterdam (Miracle of the Host). The chapel was demolished in 1908.
A fire (Hotel Polen) in the Rokin on May 9, 1977, claimed 33 deaths.
Rokin metro station on line 52 of the Amsterdam Metro opened in July 2018. The Rokin is also served by tramway lines 4, 14 and 24.
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Utrecht, Netherlands, 2014.
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
Herengracht | Oude Leliestraat 06/12/2023 17h42
Colorful installation on the corner of the Herengracht and Oude Leliestraat. And the Anton Jolingbrug (bridge).
NEXT CONNECTION
Yasser Ballemans (NL)
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in Amsterdam. Artists, architects and (light) designers from all over the world bring their light artworks and installations alive during the festival every winter.
Edition #12 is from 30 November 2023 till 21 January 2024. More than twenty light artworks will illuminate the iconic canals of Amsterdam. For Amsterdam Light Festival 2023-2024 we have asked artists to consider the effects of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) on our everyday lives. The ways in which we communicate, engage and create are all impacted by technology and AI. What is the impact on the human condition? How does society change because of this digital evolution? And where are the boundaries? The different perspectives will be highlighted during Edition 12, with the theme: LOADING… Revealing Art, AI and Tech.
The route consists of more than twenty light artworks by the hand of international artists. From renowned names to surprising newcomers and everything in between. We dive deeper into our relationship with personal tech, the mobile phone being at the forefront – we cannot live without it, but sometimes you wish you could throw it in the canal. Subjects such as swarm intelligence, self learning algorithms, facial recognition and motion capture are also explored. What will be next? That is still loading…
Not sure if this section of aerial walkway at the Wilhelminapier waterfront is constructed from re-purposed dock gantry's but it made for an intersting urban sculpture.
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From the cityguiderotterdam.com website : "Wilhelminapier is a small peninsula, located at the south bank of the river Maas at the foot of the Erasmus Bridge. One modern building after another has risen here since the beginning of the new millennium and this makes Wilhelminapier the icon of modern Rotterdam!
You will find many striking buildings at Wilhelminapier and it's certainly worth a visit. One of the eye-catchers is the beautiful New Luxor Theatre, where many famous Dutch and international artists perform. The well-known Hotel New York can be found at the end of Wilhelminapier as well. This hotel used to be the headquarters of the Holland America Line (HAL), but now you can relax here at their outdoor terrace and enjoy the great view at the river Maas.
Rotterdam Skyscraper City
Above all Wilhelminapier is known for its skyscrapers. The Montevideo tower (152 meter), the World Port Center (124 meter) and the New Orleans tower (160 meter) are all clustered closely together, like in Manhattan, New York. The icing on the cake is a brand new building De Rotterdam, the biggest building of the Netherlands. "
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Weesperstraat 23/06/2023 12h39
Between June 12 and July 23, 2023, the municipality of Amsterdam will investigate what will happen on the street and in the immediate vicinity if we close Weesperstraat to cars from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. In these 6 weeks, the effects of a temporary closure of Weesperstraat on traffic, safety and quality of life in the area will be examined.
We are doing this test because the eastern inner city is very busy during the day on working days with many cars. More than 1,500 cars per hour drive on the Weesperstraat.
The trial is also known as the 'Knip Weesperstraat'. ('knip'is in English 'cut'). Part of this 'knip' is this temporary park in the middle.
The proponents are the residents of the immediate area. The opponents mainly the rest of the city and the people who need to be there. Elsewhere it is suddenly much busier with car traffic.
Linnaeusstraat 24/12/2020 13h56
The last days of this type of tram taken right before Christmas. This photo is uploaded during the last week this type of tram is dominating on tramlines 19 and 24. The 12G series (817 - 841) built by BN in Belgium in the early 1990's will be put aside first. Later the 11G bidirectional 11G trams (901 - 920) will follow when enough new CAF Urbos 100 GVB 15G trams are available for service on line 5.
Here the 839 on the tramstop Oostpoort (formerly named Pretoriusstraat) going West.
The 839 on the photo was delivered to Amsterdam on 02/12/1991 and first seen on the streets with passengers on 04/01/1992 on line 2. Part of the series 12G (trapkar or hangbuik) with fleet numbers 817-841, built by BN in Brugge.
More information about line 19:
Opened: 22/07/2018
Route: Diemen - Middenweg - Sarphatistraat - Weteringschans - Leidseplein - de Clercqstraat - Admiraal de Ruijterweg - Sloterdijk
Length: 15,4 km
Depot: Remise Havenstraat
Equipment: Standard BN 12G trams (817 - 841)
[ 04 / 2020 ]
BYE BYE 12G TRAMS (all photos taken after the news this tram series will be phased out)
Leidseplein 08/10/2023 13h32
Vueling has been appearing occasionally with total advertising on Amsterdam trams for a few years now.
In 2023 Combino 2103 is coloring yellow to promote this Spanish low cost airline.
Here clearly visible due to new line and destination displays on duty on tramline 12 to Amsteldijk. Not to Amstelstation due to renovation of the Berlagebrug (bridge).
This 2103 was delivered to the GVB on 17/09/2003 and first seen on the streets of Amsterdam with passengers on 18/10/2003 on line 12.
More information:
Wikipedia - Tramlijn 12 (Dutch)
Amsterdamse Trams - Lijn 12 (Dutch - by Cor Fijma)
Amstel 30/03/2025 14h23
Street art Frankey gives the city small inconspicuous surprises. Sometimes quite large, sometimes very small. Every week a photo with one of his recent works appears in the supplement to the newspaper Het Parool. A great opportunity to take a closer look at his work. Sometimes you have to search to find it and sometimes it is already gone.
DE KLEINE KOMEDIE (The Small Comedy) is a theater in Amsterdam located on the Amstel, built in 1786. It's the oldest theater in Amsterdam and certainly one of my favorites. Since the 1980s, the theater has focused on cabaret and has grown into 'the cabaret temple of the Netherlands.' Because I create small artworks in the streets of Amsterdam, I have made a small replica of their iconic façade and personalized it a bit: DE KLEINSTE KOMEDIE (The Smallest Comedy). [Streetart Frankey]
DE KLEINSTE KOMEDIE
Amstel, Amsterdam Center (NL)
February 2025 (Het Parool, 15/02/2025)
Streetart Frankey
Streetart Frankey (pseudonym of Frank de Ruwe) is a Dutch artist who wants to positively influence the street scene with relatively small and often inconspicuous works of art.
He grew up in Nijmegen, father was an inventor at Philips Netherlands. He studied at Delft University of Technology (Industrial design). In daily life director of and working for design collective Natwerk. In Amsterdam, many of his works in the street art category can be found on buildings, streets and bridges, often in addition to existing building elements. He himself about his work;
"I want to push boundaries. Art has no boundaries, that's why I like it so much."
In 2019, a special page has been dedicated to his art in Het Parool for a number of years; first he took care of that section himself, later he had to leave that work to others because of busy work. A little later his work Eberhard van der Laan appeared above the entrance of Paradiso.
One of the works that inspired him is the Boomzagertje in the Leidsebosje, a work by an as yet unknown artist.
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Diamantstraat 30/07/2024 14h04
Once the most popular car in the Netherlands, now a classic that stands out.
This Opel Kadett is built in 1976 and appeared that year on the Dutch roads. It was the C edition of the Kadett, produced from 1973 till 1979.
Opel Kadett
The Opel Kadett is a small family car produced by the German automobile manufacturer Opel from 1962 until 1991 (the Cabrio continued until 1993), when it was succeeded by the Opel Astra.
The Kadett C appeared in August 1973 and was Opel's version of the General Motors' "T-Car". It was the last small Opel to feature rear-wheel drive, and remained in production at Opel's Bochum plant until July 1979, by which time Opel had produced 1,701,076. Of these, 52% had been exported outside West Germany,[ most of them to markets in other parts of western Europe.
The Kadett C was mirrored in Europe by its British derivative — the Vauxhall Chevette. For the first time the Opel Kadett and its Vauxhall equivalent were now very clearly the same car, and marked the gradual convergence of Opel and Vauxhall models, which would be completed with the later Kadett D.
FACTS & FIGURES:
Class: Compact
Production: 1973 - 1979
Number of units produced: about 1.6 million
Length: 4 124 mm
Width: 1 570 mm
Heigth: 1 375 mm
[ Wikipedia 2024 ]
Dam 12/02/2021 11h53
Dam (not: Dam Square!) 5 days after blizzard Darcy. Still covered in snow due to the frost. And not crowded due to the lockdown of the moment (non essential shops closed as well as bars and restaurants).
(album with all the photos of Darcy blizzard, the frost period, drifting snow, people in the snow, cars in the snow, transport and more)
Dam
Dam is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the most well-known and important locations in the city and the country.
Dam Square lies in the historical center of Amsterdam, approximately 750 metres south of the main transportation hub, Centraal Station, at the original location of the dam in the river Amstel. It is roughly rectangular in shape, stretching about 200 metres from west to east and about 100 metres from north to south. It links the streets Damrak and Rokin, which run along the original course of the Amstel River from Centraal Station to Muntplein (Mint Square) and the Munttoren (Mint Tower). The Dam also marks the endpoint of the other well-traveled streets Nieuwendijk, Kalverstraat and Damstraat. A short distance beyond the northeast corner lies the main Red-light district: De Wallen.
On the west end of the square is the neoclassical Royal Palace, which served as the city hall from 1655 until its conversion to a royal residence in 1808. Beside it are the 15th-century Gothic Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and the Madame Tussauds Amsterdam Wax Museum. The National Monument, a white stone pillar designed by J.J.P. Oud and erected in 1956 to memorialize the victims of World War II, dominates the opposite side of the square. Also overlooking the plaza are the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky and the upscale department store De Bijenkorf. These various attractions have turned the Dam into a tourist zone.
The Dam derives its name from its original function: a dam on the Amstel River, hence also the name of the city.[1] Built in approximately 1270, the dam formed the first connection between the settlements on the sides of the river.
[ Source & More: Wikipedia - Dam (Square) ]
Rietlandpark | Fred Petterbaan 06/11/2020 15h36
Never app and walk...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Wertheimpark 04/12/2016 18h02
My first object of the 5th edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival. This 'nest' is both for the Water Colors boat tour as for the Illuminade walk tour which starts a bit later (15/12/2016) than the boat tour which started on 01/12/2016.
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in Amsterdam. Artists, architects and (light) designers from all over the world bring their light artworks and installations alive during the festival every winter. The artworks are placed alongside two routes. Each route has their own theme, set of artworks and visitor experience. Water Colors, the boat rout, displays big monumental objects and offers visitors the chance to experience the art from a water perspective. Illuminade, the walking route, shows interactive and innovative installations from upcoming designers in the Plantage neighborhood.
Celebrate winter, with art, light and water!
www.amsterdamlightfestival.com
Nest
Artist: Vikas Patil & Santosh Gujar
Location: Wertheimpark | Nieuwe Herengracht
The bowerbirds of Australia And New Guinea build nests that are so big that early Australian explorers thought they were kangaroo nests at first. They use their nest to show off to female bowerbirds and only use recycled materials. Especially blue plastic waste.
In nature animals build their homes in the most creative ways. Think of beavers building dams or termites building hills as large as skyscrapers. Animals are very practical about their home and will build a new one from scratch if they need to.
Maybe it is useful for mankind to reevaluate if it is necessary to only build permanent constructions. Building techniques that are inspired by animals are used more often in architecture. This is called organic architecture. NEST from Vikas Patil and Santosh Gunjar is inspired by this architectural movement. It triggers us to look at buildings with an open mind.
Vikas Patil is a light designer and architect from India. After his master at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan, he worked on different projects in India and various European and Arabian countries. Patil is the owner of the established Studio ALBA Lightning Design that is based in Mumbai and was founded in 2011.
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands with a population of 872,680[12] within the city proper, 1,380,872 in the urban area and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area. Found within the province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", attributed by the large number of canals which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world in the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century and became the leading centre for finance and trade. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded, and many new neighbourhoods and suburbs were planned and built. The 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Sloten, annexed in 1921 by the municipality of Amsterdam, is the oldest part of the city, dating to the 9th century.
As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered an alpha-world city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) study group. The city is also the cultural capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, including Philips, AkzoNobel, TomTom and ING. Also, many of the world's largest companies are based in Amsterdam or have established their European headquarters in the city, such as leading technology companies Uber, Netflix and Tesla. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 12th globally on quality of living for environment and infrastructure by Mercer. The city was ranked 4th place globally as top tech hub in the Savills Tech Cities 2019 report (2nd in Europe), and 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Port of Amsterdam is the fifth largest in Europe. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the busiest airport in the Netherlands, and the third busiest in Europe. Famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in the world. Amsterdam's main attractions include its historic canals, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Hermitage Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw, the Anne Frank House, the Scheepvaartmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum, the Heineken Experience, the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Natura Artis Magistra and Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. They draw more than 5 million international visitors annually. The city is also well known for its nightlife and festival activity; several of its nightclubs (Melkweg, Paradiso) are among the world's most famous. It is also one of the world's most multicultural cities, with at least 177 nationalities represented
-Wikipedia
Museumplein 08/10/2021 16h40
Lonely urban biker...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)