As I entered this garden, I found myself in a labyrinth of passages flanked by two-meter-high brick walls. The dramatic angular stainless steel mirrors seemed to be hovering above the columns. Upon closer look, names, date of birth and age of death were inscribed on individually stacked bricks. This is…
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Amsterdam
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Underwater Underground Bike Parking
For years and years, the construction in front of the Amsterdam Central Station went on and on like a never-ending situation. The water in the Open Havenfront was pumped out, the site was rebuilt, reconstructed and transformed. Something about the excavated pit with anchored sheet piling walls and micropiles (anchor…
Amsterdam
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De Schaduwkade Monument
So, I stumbled on to another bridge with a story … This time, I stood here across the Amstel overlooking the Schaduwkade (Shadow Wall) Monument on my left. A monument to two hundred Jewish residents of the Nieuwe Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, who were deported and murdered during the Second World…
Amsterdam
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Joes Kloppenburgbrug
A bridge with a story to tell … In Dutch as written on the plate … “17 augustus 1996 vrijdagnacht halfvijf in de Voetboogstraat te Amsterdam. Vier dronken, opgefokte jongens zoeken ruzie met cafĂ©gangers en een zwerver. Ook twee studenten moeten het ontgelden. Zij worden volledig in elkaar geslagen. Joes…
Rotterdam
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Sweepers Clock by Maarten Baas
I was in the neighbourhood of Museumpark, in Rotterdam. Thought I pop by to the Erasmus MC to check out an art installation that I have been curious to witness in person. It is about a clock! Video: a five-second time-lapse recording which represents about a minute and a half…
Eindhoven
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Silly Walks Tunnel
In the Dommel tunnel, between the TU and the Effenaar in Eindhoven, you can find the underpass decorated with street art depicting the ‘Silly Walk’. This refers to the crazy walks and bizarre movements that John Cleese made in his famous Monty Python sketch. The images of the Minister of…
Rotterdam
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Rigardus Rijnhout
An interesting sculpture of a very tall man placed in the neighbourhood park of the Oude Westen, in Rotterdam. It got me curious. This is Rigardus Rijnhout (Rotterdam, 21 April 1922 – Leiden, 13 April 1959). He was known as the Giant of Rotterdam due to his height of 2…
Amsterdam
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Rijksmuseum Schiphol
UPDATED 02/05/2025 – THIS EXHIBITION IS CLOSED! With hours to spend, I wandered around Schiphol Airport aimlessly … Then I remembered about a certain free museum at this airport. Rijksmuseum Schiphol đź“ŤHolland Boulevard, between Pier E and Pier F (after passport control). In 2002, Rijksmuseum became the first art museum…