posts tagged ‘amsterdam’
NAi China Program | day II
September 30th, 2010 • consultancy, movingmemos, travel
Tags: amsterdam, architecture, projects
Amsterdam | August 31, 2010
On the second day of the NAi China Program [day 1] we visited a couple of classic housing projects [MVRDV's Parkrand, the 1990s KNSM-island developments,...] and large residential areas in transformation [Amsterdam West, areas along the riverbanks of the IJ,...], all located in Amsterdam. Background and snapshots. read more »
Amsterdam | the West
March 12th, 2010 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: amsterdam, infrastructure, urbanism
Amsterdam West | February 19, 2010
Snapshots of the last day in Amsterdam shows the area around the St. Lucas Andreas Hospital in the West of the city. Here, locked in-between the highway and the railway, hospitals are mixed with high-rise, construction sites with transportation networks. Territorial transformation, for the trendy and sporty, is at hand. read more »
Amsterdam | the IJ
March 5th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: amsterdam, architecture, construction, urbanism
IJ Plein Urban Planning by OMA | February 17, 2010
After living and working in Amsterdam from 2001 to 2006, MovingCities has returned occasionally back to the city during the past years. In 2008 we interviewed professor Moshe Zwarts on the plans to build a city under the city, in 2009 to scan the destruction of the PostCS-building and to visit the notorious Bijlmermeer-area. This time around we look at the development of the IJ riverbank, the MuziekGebouw and OMA’s 1988 ‘IJ Plein Urban Planning‘-project. read more »
Helsinki >> Amsterdam
March 4th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: amsterdam, helsinki, on-the-move
Tuomas Toivonen drives through Finland | February 15, 2010
On Monday February 15, MovingCities was in Helsinki in the morning and Amsterdam in the evening. Driving on Finnish roads, flying over Europe and landing on a balcony in Amsterdam’s Western districts. Some snapshots of a European day of traveling.
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Amsterdam snapshots | part III
May 7th, 2009 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: amsterdam, demolition, urbanism
Bijlmermeer | Amsterdam | April 10, 2009
A visit to the destruction of the PostCS-building and to the notorious Bijlmermeer-area, a seventies high-density housing development in the South-East of Amsterdam, was the apotheosis of MovingCities’ recent Amsterdam trip. A couple of snapshots and related Rem Koolhaas stories.
