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Another photo of the Rainbow Passage by dutch artist Peter Struycken.
This installation at the Netherlands Architecture Institute is a 2008 light installation controlled by a computer program that changes the displayed colours every ten minutes using red, green and blue lamps.
Unsurprisingly it seemed a popular hang out for teenagers so quite a bit of patience was required to get some shots without too many people in them.
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From Wikipedia : "The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, comprising a museum, an archive plus library, and a platform for lectures and debates. The NAI was established in 1988 and has been based in Rotterdam since 1993.
The NAI is a private organisation with a government brief, which is to manage the collection of archives that document the history of Dutch architecture. Moreover, as a sector institute for architecture it is also tasked with supporting the professional field. The building also houses a bookshop and a cafe.......
In 1988, a competition was held among six architects to find an architect for a new building. These were: Jo Coenen, Rem Koolhaas, Benthem Crouwel Architekten, Wim Quist, Luigi Snozzi and Ralph Erskine. Koolhaas’s design was the favourite among the specialist press and was also favoured by Riek Bakker, the director of Rotterdam’s Department of Urban Development. However, the NAI awarded Jo Coenen the commission, the decisive factors being the blending of the design into the surroundings and the references to the history of architecture.
After an intensive period of renovation, the NAI opened its doors on 1 July 2011. The most salient part of the renovation was moving the entrance to the pond level. The restaurant was extended. An exhibition room and additional space for educational activities were also added. At the site of the original entrance is now the DoeDek, a hands-on area where visitors can experiment with Lego, large blocks and cut-outs. As the original building’s architect, Jo Coenen was also responsible for its renovation."
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A very crisp looking Erasmusbrug thanks to some lovely early morning light.
Considering my visit was mid-October I was very lucky with the weather. I only stayed two days and thankfully I hardly saw a cloud in the sky.......
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From Wikipedia : "Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan".
The southernmost span of the bridge has an 89-metre-long (292 ft) bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world."
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Leiden is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden had a population of 123,856 in August 2017, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration with its suburbs Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten and Zoeterwoude with 206,647 inhabitants. The Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) further includes Katwijk in the agglomeration which makes the total population of the Leiden urban agglomeration 270,879, and in the larger Leiden urban area also Teylingen, Noordwijk, and Noordwijkerhout are included with in total 348,868 inhabitants. Leiden is located on the Oude Rijn, at a distance of some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from The Hague to its south and some 40 km (25 mi) from Amsterdam to its north. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes (Kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of Leiden.
A university city since 1575, Leiden has been one of Europe's most prominent scientific centres for more than four centuries. Leiden is a typical university city, university buildings are scattered throughout the city and the many students from all over the world give the city a bustling, vivid and international atmosphere. Many important scientific discoveries have been made here, giving rise to Leiden's motto: ‘City of Discoveries’. The city houses Leiden University, the oldest university of the Netherlands, and Leiden University Medical Center. Leiden University is one of Europe's top universities, with thirteen Nobel Prize winners. It is a member of the League of European Research Universities and positioned highly in all international academic rankings. It is twinned with Oxford, the location of the United Kingdom's oldest university. Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied Sciences (Leidse Hogeschool) together have around 35,000 students. Modern scientific medical research and teaching started in the early 18th century in Leiden with Boerhaave.
Leiden is a city with a rich cultural heritage, not only in science, but also in the arts. One of the world's most famous painters, Rembrandt, was born and educated in Leiden. Other famous Leiden painters include Lucas van Leyden, Jan van Goyen and Jan Steen.
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You have probably heard Harry Chapin’s 1974 hit song “Cat’s in the Cradle” but never understood the meaning of the title.
According to legend, the Saint Elizabeth’s Flood of 1421 ravished the land around Kinderdijk and drowned up to 10,000 people.
The following day, an infant girl was found drifting in a crib.
The baby had remained afloat by the tireless efforts of a cat jumping back and forth to keep the cradle balanced.
The story became a popular Dutch fairytale.
The village was named Kinderdijk meaning children’s dike.
The Harry Chapin is a very important name in my town.
His children went to school with my children and he was an involved parent.
He was at the kids soccer games and at least once a year gave a concert for charity.
He set up food pantries on Long Island for the hungry and was involved in finding ways to feed the hungry worldwide.
He was killed in a tragic car crash on the Long Island Expressway when the kids were in middle school.
My tears were mixed with the rain as I remembered this kind and talented man.
De Biesbosch is arguably one of the most interesting natural sites of the Netherlands. Formed by the estuaries of the Rhine-Meuse delta, it is composed by many creeks, branches and drainage channels together with islands and their associated riparian vegetation. The history of the site is very interesting, including its formation after the XV Century floodings (yes, it is another human-induced landscape). The exuberant vegetation and its reasonable size make room for some large animals such as beavers, white-tailed eagles or ospreys in an otherwise overcrowded country like the Netherlands. One can but imagine that at the time of the first Neolithic settlers the majority of the Netherlands were like this small natural remnant.
Weteringschans 11/12/2017 16h37
On Monday 11 December Amsterdam is covered in a coat of fresh snow. The snow fell in sudden flurries and gusts and turned the world white and wonderful.
Try to spot the man behind the window who seems to think "OMG, how to get home".
Weteringschans
De Weteringschans is a street in the center of Amsterdam that connects the Leidseplein with the Frederiksplein. The street was named in 1872 after the Weteringpoort and the Boerenwetering (such as the Weteringbuurt and Weteringplantsoen).
The Weteringschans, which was called Schans until 1850, was laid out on the city walls that were plastered between 1820 and 1840. The part of the Schans between Haarlemmerplein and Leidseplein was called Marnixstraat in 1872 and the part between Frederiksplein and Nieuwe Vaart became the Sarphatistraat.
The street has a length of 1.1 kilometer.
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As this image captured today, 11 February, by Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows, the Netherlands remains pretty much snow-covered thanks to days of sub-zero temperatures following the country’s first major snowstorm in a decade.
Storm Darcy hit the Netherlands in the evening of Saturday 6 February as it pushed its way through much of northern Europe. Strong winds and bitter cold, which initiated a ‘code red’ weather warning, brought the country to an almost standstill as most public transport was cancelled the following day – by which time most of the country was under around 10 cm of snow. The snowfall also caused disruption to parts of the UK and Germany.
Although the snow stopped falling a day or so later, temperatures have remained below freezing, reawakening the Dutch passion for ice-skating. The Netherlands is home to the century-old ‘Elfstedentocht’, a 200-kilometre race on natural ice through 11 towns and cities in the northern province of Friesland. It was last held in 1997, but the current Covid pandemic restrictions mean that this historic race, which can attract thousands of participants and hundreds of thousands of spectators, is not permitted this year.
Climate change is thought to be having an impact on the chances of conditions being right for an Elfstedentocht – the canal ice has to be at least 15 cm thick. According to the Dutch Meteorological Institute, KNMI, a century ago, there was a 20% chance every year of it being cold enough to organise the race, this has now decreased to an 8% chance.
Copernicus Sentinel-3 is a two-satellite mission to supply the coverage and data delivery needed for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. Each satellite carries the same suite of four sensors. This image, showing snow cover in the Netherlands, Denmark, part of the UK and part of Germany, was captured by the mission’s ocean and land cover instrument.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
For the time of year rather active thunderstorms just off shore over the North Sea.
This traveling lightning bolt is some 30-40 miles away from my location, so I had to use a short telephoto lens to capture the bolts.
The Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam looking like an enormous harp.
Sometimes I'm so wrapped up with trying to get different, unique shots I forget to take the more obvious 'postcard' type shots......
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From Wikipedia : "Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan".
The southernmost span of the bridge has an 89-metre-long (292 ft) bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world."
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Yes, it is a car ferris wheel...
which seemed to have been booked out by the Citroen Car Club.
Randomly saw this during my first year living in The Netherlands, and thought it might be a common sight, so didn't bother to meter properly for the slide film I had in my camera at the time. But I never saw this thing again during the next three years.
A chaque fois que je zoome sur les Pays-Bas, je repense au proverbe appris grâce à mon collègue Andre Kuipers: « Dieu a créé le Monde, les Néerlandais ont créé les Pays-Bas ». Et de fait – une bonne partie des terres sur cette photo ont été gagnés sur la mer depuis des siècles : les fameux polders de vos cours de géographie. C’est justement sur une de ses étendues artificielles que travaillent des milliers d’ingénieurs de toute l’Europe, au Centre européen de recherche et de technologie spatiales (ESTEC), où sont testés nos satellites et où le bras robotique européen a été construit… avant de rejoindre la Station dans quelques semaines #spoileralert
The Netherlands is not the largest country in the world, but I still didn't manage to fit it all into the camera frame! I did get most of it, including ESA's technical centre ESTEC, the largest European Space Agency centre (above the white squares that are greenhouses). The European Robotic Arm was made near there that will be launched soon, after many years. Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers trained to install the European Robotic Arm before I even finished my studies !
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Another variation on a theme........
Just a few more shots of the Erasmus Bridge to come.
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From Wikipedia : "Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan".
The southernmost span of the bridge has an 89-metre-long (292 ft) bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world."
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