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The Netherlands is famous for growing and exporting tulips and other flowers. The Keukenhof is a park visited by 1,5 million people every year.
Another shot of the Rotterdam Cube Houses. Here I've lined up the edges of the roofs just to make the image a bit more confusing than it already was.........
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From Wikipedia "Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level, since its main purpose is to optimise the space inside. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. The central idea of the cube houses around the world is mainly optimizing the space, as a house, to a better distribution of the rooms inside."
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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
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Another variation on a theme......
Thanks to one of my flickr contacts I know know this building is called Blaak 8 and the Architects were Group A and Dreissen Architecten. It's the headquarters for the Dutch Energy Company Stedin.
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From the archello.com/project/offices-blaak-8 website : "The structure of a tree with its natural constructional logic, has been the inspiration for the facade design. At the top, where the forces are relatively small, the tree exists of thin twigs. At the bottom, where the forces from the entire crown come together and must be carried, the trunk of the tree looks broad and strong. It is this natural structure that has served as inspiration for the load-bearing facade of Blaak 8. On the lower floors heavy piers reflect the 'tree-trunks' which extend upwardly branching out into smaller piers that reflect the 'tree-tops'. The tower owes its stability to this diagonal fluttering 'branches'. The unconventional facade structure ensures the building to be experienced as abstract from various viewpoints, and from other positions the tree structure to be clearly visible."
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Vrébourg 21/06/2021 20h26
Andy presents BellA to the world. BellA was born on 30/04/2021. Here 43 days old (6 weeks).
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Maastricht, Netherlands. 22-2-2009.
Taken today during the Maastricht Carnival that will continue through Tuesday. This is the uncropped image but center-square only looks good, too.
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Leidseplein 14/11/2016 15h25
Major road and railworks on the Leidseplein. It's hard to pass by car, bike of foot at the moment and the trams have a hard time as well.
Combino 2042 on line 2 just left the Leidsestraat on its way to Sloten.
This 2042 has been delivered to the GVB on 13/09/2002 and was put into service for the first time on 12/10/2002 on line 9.
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Amsterdamse Trams (Cor Fijma)
Location: Berlin - 520km from home.
I remember those days when Urus were rare and cool to spot.
I would get so excited about them.
Admittedly, a yellow Urus is still a relatively cool car to see.
But with more than 70 Urus spotted in the last year, I am rather underwhelmed with them nowadays.
23/12/2018
Van Nelle Fabriek
Rotterdam
Netherlands
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built 1926 to 1930
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Hartveldseweg 07/02/2021 08h14
Snow removal around 8 in the morning while it was predicted that it would snow until 6 pm is fun but useless. The blizzard Darcy did its job today and paralyzed the whole country.
Corner Hartveldseweg and Arend Krijtsstraat.
Diemen
Diemen is a town and municipality with a population of 27 K in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is located approximately 6 kilometres southeast of Amsterdam's city centre, within the Amsterdam metropolitan area.
The name Diemen comes from the river Diem, which originates from die eme, meaning the water.
The municipality has a population of 25,915 and a population density of 2,161/km2.
I attended a celebration and concert at the Netherlands Carillon on May 5, 2016. The event was scheduled to coincide with the Netherlands’ Liberation Day (WWII) and the National Park Service’s centennial. It was hosted by the Trust for the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in conjunction with the National Park Service. The carillon is located between Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington, Virginia. Attendees were offered the rare opportunity to go up inside the 120-foot high carillon; that provided a unique view of Washington DC. The weather and drab skies were not the best for photography, but I'll likely never get another chance. BTW, the U.S. Capitol is about 3.25 miles from the carillon.
Muiderstraatweg 16/09/2021 17h55
The invasion of the CAF Urbos 100 GVB 15G trams on tramline 19. As we speak (*half September 2021) more than half of the trams on duty on line 19 are of this new type. Tram line 19 is the third tram line after line 25 and 5 using this type of tram.
The tram has no destination in its display.
This 15G CAF tram with fleet number 3048 has been delivered to the GVB at 12/05/2021 and first in service on 10/07/2021 on line 5.
More information about line 19:
Opened: 22/07/2018
Route: Diemen - Middenweg - Sarphatistraat - Weteringschans - Leidseplein - de Clercqstraat - Admiraal de Ruijterweg - Sloterdijk
Length: 12.8 km
Depot: Remise Havenstraat
Equipment: Siemens Combino 13G (2001 - 2151) and CAF 15G (3026 - 3072)
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