Day 86
Day 86
Monday, November 6, 2006
Amsterdam, Netherlands
We slept in too late to catch dinner at the hostel and so we wondered around Amsterdam until we found a place that served bacon and eggs. I decided to get an egg hamburger for breakfast/lunch. We walked along the canals Out towards NEMO the giant copper covered performing arts center in Amsterdam. We found that little architecture museum made up of twisted metal decking, but it was closed because it was Monday. Near NEMO was a little gatehouse for the bridge over the canal. It was tiny but still a really cool building. We sketched there for a while but didn’t get to see the bridge move. It was a center pivoting bridge that would have been really cool to see. We walked under the train tracks and checked out the inside of a new concert hall, which hand an exhibit about a Dutch guy who had ridden his bike around he world for six years. We spent awhile wandering around Borneo/Sporenburg which was a new huge housing development on the site of some old docklands. It seemed to be too residential to me, with not enough commercial space for its isolated location, however it was still a good model of how to make a huge new development with a varied and dense housing style.
We walked back into the center of town and saw an Erick van Egeraat housing project that had staggered floors wrapping around the corner. Another block down was a copper covered project by Steven Holl. We went to a coffee shop to warm up and then went back to the hostel for a siesta. I got some ideas for my Venice bridge project and sketched for a little while. We had dinner at a Chinese place and we were again the only ones in the restaurant. We went back to the hostel and caught the happy hour and played some pool for a while. We met a guy from New York and another guy from Chili, who went back out to the coffee shop with us.
Monday, November 6, 2006
Amsterdam, Netherlands
We slept in too late to catch dinner at the hostel and so we wondered around Amsterdam until we found a place that served bacon and eggs. I decided to get an egg hamburger for breakfast/lunch. We walked along the canals Out towards NEMO the giant copper covered performing arts center in Amsterdam. We found that little architecture museum made up of twisted metal decking, but it was closed because it was Monday. Near NEMO was a little gatehouse for the bridge over the canal. It was tiny but still a really cool building. We sketched there for a while but didn’t get to see the bridge move. It was a center pivoting bridge that would have been really cool to see. We walked under the train tracks and checked out the inside of a new concert hall, which hand an exhibit about a Dutch guy who had ridden his bike around he world for six years. We spent awhile wandering around Borneo/Sporenburg which was a new huge housing development on the site of some old docklands. It seemed to be too residential to me, with not enough commercial space for its isolated location, however it was still a good model of how to make a huge new development with a varied and dense housing style.
We walked back into the center of town and saw an Erick van Egeraat housing project that had staggered floors wrapping around the corner. Another block down was a copper covered project by Steven Holl. We went to a coffee shop to warm up and then went back to the hostel for a siesta. I got some ideas for my Venice bridge project and sketched for a little while. We had dinner at a Chinese place and we were again the only ones in the restaurant. We went back to the hostel and caught the happy hour and played some pool for a while. We met a guy from New York and another guy from Chili, who went back out to the coffee shop with us.
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