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Last saturday, the "Day of Architecture" was held in every larger city in the Netherlands. A lot of buildings were open to the public. There were tours organized in many cities aswell (both on land and on the water), where an architect would guide you through the city, taking you along...

Nice photos. I agree with you that this city, especially the inner city, is more like a historical theme park than a real city. This phenomenon occurs all over europe, as suburbanisation sucks companies and people out of the inner cities, these places become places where you only go for...

Impressive pictures. Reminds me of my visit to Ypres almost one year ago. I hear you when you say that visiting these sites is a very moving, humbling experience. What went on there just short of a century ago is just beyond my imagination, it is hard to realize the magnitude of the drama that...

Good idea to make a compilation of Koolhaas' work. Thusfar I haven't seen you mention his Educatorium in Utrecht, hence why I'd like to add information about this building to this thread, if you don't mind. Educatorium, Utrecht University, Utrecht (The Netherlands) Design - Realisation...

Thanks a lot for your replies :) Zephyr, I can imagine someone from a country where land is abundant finds such narrow streets claustrophobic, though the streets of Nijmegen are actually pretty wide compared to some alleys in medieval Italian cities... now that gives me claustrophobia ;)...

Went to Nijmegen last week, here are the pictures. Nijmegen is the oldest city of the Netherlands, the city's 2000-year existance was celebrated in 2005. With 160,000 inhabitants, it''s the 10th city of the Netherlands. Music Nijmegen is situated halfway between Amsterdam and Cologne...

Nice shots!:) Good to see the're working on the lightrail.

The Hong Kong of Europe. 33,000 permanent inhabitants (thousands more are wealthy Northern Europeans or Arabs who only spent a part of the year there) squeezed into a tiny strip of land by the sea that merely encompasses 2 square kilometers. Love the city, I visited it 4 times- one of my fav...

Sounds perfect!

^I know what you mean about Belgium, it is hard not to like it. I used to pass through it for years, on my way to France... until I visited it properly last June. I liked it so much that I went back there in less than two months since my last visit. Here are more photos that I couldn't upload...

Awesome pics. I can appreciate the graffiti on the last pics (though it's certainly not the most imaginitive, creative stuff). Graffiti can enhance streetsscapes, but there is a line to draw between artwork and plain tagging.

There didn't seem to be a lot of construction activity at the station. Apart from the platforms that are situated just a bit above streetlevel, there was a new set of platforms situated underground: It somewhat reminded me of the new railway station in Berlin, though this one was far less...

In random order, these the pics of my 3-day trip to Antwerp earlier this month. Antwerp has 466.000 inhabitants (in the city proper). It is Belgium's second city. It is also the second largest harbourcity in Europe, after Rotterdam. Music

Thanks for the pictures. Loved to see Sarnia, I've never seen anything of it before. A longtime friend of our family has lived there for some 15 years. He moved back to Holland (to The Hague) in the 80s due to personal circumstances. He still misses Sarnia (and Canada overall) a lot, he really...

Toronto looks much denser today than in the seventies on those pictures. I'd say the city has made a lot of progress. The streets also appear to be much busier on the pics taken in 2007.

I had no internet at home the past few days. And now that I log on to the board again, I find 3 awesome threads about abandoned roads and lost neighbourhoods! Great work.

Those are some nice shots of the Lake! You capture gardens pretty good.

Certainly a nice town, thanks for the pictures. Too bad some of those older buildings haven't been maintained very well.

Nice pictures, thanks for sharing!

Very interesting, thanks for compiling this! It's interesting to see how you shed a fresh light on these parks. Many of these offices are empty, because municipal governments all around the country are eager to built them, because of the financial advantage that's involved (nothing is as...