Leeuwarden

Population : (2007) 92,203

Leeuwarden (Stadsfries: Liwwadden, Frisian: Ljouwert) is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Friesland. It is situated in the north of the country.

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The towers looks awsome at nigth, with that green ligth in the top. :) But there is only two towers. :( 6.5/10

5.5/10 :)

Eric did you visit Holland?? Seeying posting pics of cities I was wondering? :)

Leeuwarden needs more towers! 6,5

A few more pictures because these two don't do it much good. There's more than two buildings as you can see. Unfortunately the only picture I have that shows them all is a 5 MB panorama.

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden103.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden129.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden139.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden81.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden109.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden35.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden69.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden93.jpg

http://62.163.37.21/pics/leeuwarden5.jpg

Besides, show me a city with 90.000 inhabitants that has more than this (*).

*) tourist traps that hold nearly a million people in summer but almost noone in the winter excluded ;)

Originally posted by rdj

Besides, show me a city with 90.000 inhabitants that has more than this (*).

*) tourist traps that hold nearly a million people in summer but almost noone in the winter excluded ;)

Here it is Balneário Camboriu (http://www.fabiobeltrao.hpg.ig.com.br/html/camboriu_flash.html) south of Brazil pop = 73.000 and no metro.


6/10 for the nice towers

Originally posted by Fabio

Here it is Balneário Camboriu (http://www.fabiobeltrao.hpg.ig.com.br/html/camboriu_flash.html) south of Brazil pop = 73.000 and no metro.


6/10 for the nice towers

Are you telling me that's not a tourist location?

One point for each tower. ;)

innovating buildings for a small city, but it needs more high
buildings. Being an European city and by the design of towers 5,5/10

those are 2 weird boxes.... 5/10

5/10

I'm sure the skyline will get better in the near future.
4.5/10

I like the skyline sofar. A city does not hav to have lots of scrapers to be beautyfull, Ljouwert proves that!

7.5/10

Can't help but giving this city (...my city ;-)) 7/10. Simply because you have to take into acount it's a small town. And like RDJ already stated..... there are more than 2 towers!

I hope too see more towers in L,warden in the nearby future ,but i must admit achmea is impressive 7/10 :eek2:

Ljouwert is a nice town, it doesn't need big buildings.

No pictures, but I'll give it a 6/10.

http://207.44.228.232/images/B01/1480.jpg



http://www.bordine.nl/leeuwarden_bestanden/image050.jpg

http://207.44.228.232/images/B01/1499.jpg

http://www.bonnema.com/Fotos%20internet/98888%20Achmea%20Leeuwarden/Achmeatoren%20gevel-02-i.jpg

Two boxy skyscrapers and not much more ;) But it's quite impressive for a small town... 6,5/10

Can't help but giving this city (...my city ;-)) 7/10. Simply because you have to take into acount it's a small town. And like RDJ already stated..... there are more than 2 towers!

yep , there are 3 !

there will maybe a (really) third tower, will look like the achmea (115m), but only higher (150m)

4/10

Here's another one, it looks denser in this picture ;)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Nemo01/Leeuwarden01a.jpg

5/10.

http://www.mi-side.nl/clubenstad/%5BMI-Side.nl%5D_beeldscherm-1.jpg

nice skyline for a small city.

are there more plans to expand this skyline?

there will maybe a really third one, but it's probably to high (150+) for the nearby airforce base.

http://207.44.228.232/images/B01/1844.jpg

8/10- not much of a skyline, great city though.

5/10

8.5/10

I like its proportions and a bit gloomy colours.

http://207.44.228.232/images/B01/1844.jpg

^^ Is this plan approved or is it just a vision? This tower on the right would look damn good!

just a vision...

5/10

Not much of a skyline, but its still fairly descent for what it has (6.5/10)

2 towers... 4/10

- Edit

Nice towers, but only 2 of them for the skyline?

6/10

4/10 Quality looking buildings but there's only 2...

awsome pictures i like this beautifull city

7.0/10

5/10

5,5/10

Voor een stad met 90.000 inwoners is dit heel erg mooi. Jammer dat er geen echte skyline is. 7.5

6/10

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6/10

Een zwaluw maakt nog geen zomer...
nice modern boxy tower, but that's it -> 4/10

Leeuwarden is beautiful in the way it is. Okay, there are just two towers. That makes a wonderfull contrast with the low surroundings. In the near future no new towers will arrise because of the new NATO highrise rules from the nearby militairy airport. Leeuwarden has a lot of other qualities which are not shown in here. The historical downtown, the canals and the typical workers houses for example. Those aspects allong with the highrises makes the city complete! No more towers necessary.

Keep the new high boxes in the other cities which cannot be destroyed anymore :cheers:


For the highrise fans:

Night (source: gallery.zoom)
http://gallery.zoom.nl/public_images/6505/468/Jn12jc.jpg

More towers are rising (source: me)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Nemo01/ap020607.jpg

6/10

7.5/10

6.5/10

4/10

1 mooie toren van Bonnema maar wat een afgrijselijke zooi lelijke blokjes eromheen. Was vanmiddag in de Tesselschadestraat - saai, vormloos, ambitieloos, dorps. Snel weer terug naar huis gegaan

3/10 - Two good sized towers (2 points), a high church spire (1 point), and a couple of reasonably tall tower blocks (1 point). The city loses 1 point because the towers stick out like sore thumbs, and there are no mid rises to level that out.

Nice skyline for only 90,000 inhabitants. More towers would be nice.

Leeuwarden is a beautiful, historic city and has a great inner city. Tesselschadestraat isn't the best example of what the city has to offer. There are mid-rises scattered about, but no central skyline. Still, a wonderful place with a special atmopshere.

5/10

7/10

Very nice city with a few towers, no real skyline, but according to its size 6/10 BTW I love Friesland, the people there belongh to the best looking worldwide IMO

7/10

The last years didn't we get highrise towers but some midrise residentaltowers.

Had to give my own hometown a 6, no more. Although there is some nice midrise next to the two towers (hmmm, Tolkien?), it is too much spread out to really make an impressive skyline, as seen from the west:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/488574730_f69f69d517_b.jpg

Business centre by night (from left to right - 3 buildings from ING/Postbank with the tax office
behind it, Achmea-Avéro Insurance Company, Bonnema Office Tower):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2181/2049871861_67edb59f34_o.jpg

More ING/Postbank:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/263158706_87a48c282b.jpg?v=0

Residential tower next to the southern main city entrance bridge:
http://fotos.marktplaats.nl/kopen/9/f6/vbii9josg3A9nKNJ8MKx2Q==.jpg

Same tower, from the hospital helipad, with 3 12-story apartment buildings on the other side of the bridge
http://207.44.228.232/images/B01/1401.jpg

And Vitens drinking water company:
http://207.44.228.232/images/B01/1477.jpg

Some apartment buildings in the north of town:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4847/0003fennen4hjr2.jpg http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5663/0255dekeieg4.jpg

And finally the Oldehove, an early 16th century church tower, leaning over to one side
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Leeuwardenoldehove.JPG

all photo's found on the internet :)

7/10

Just a few more photo's from the net:

Best view of our modest skyline, from the Stephenson Bridge (south-west)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/483591988_4dc0410e26_b.jpg

Research lab and office buidling from Friesland Foods (dairy products, east side of town):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Leeuwarden%2C_Friesland_Foods.jpg/800px-Leeuwarden%2C_Friesland_Foods.jpg

Same as first, with in the back (far right) the Friesland Foods building)
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/vitens11.jpg

Terp, Eeburg and Annie Westland-flat (to be demolished), along the river Ee
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/vitens10.jpg

Eeburg with the Terp in front
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/oldehove07.jpg

In the back, former water tower (now residential) and 5 12-floor apartment buildings at the east entrance road
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/bonifatiustoren06.jpg

again the former water tower and 3 apartment buildings behind
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/oldehove04.jpg

Bilgaard (8 12-floor apartment buildings), Dammelaan (north ring road)
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/eeburg-04.jpg

Europaplein (Europe Square), a roundabout with 5 9-floor apartment buildings and the Europe Hotel encircling it, to the right
in the back is the airforce base, Leeuwardens highrise enemy no 1
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/oldehove09.jpg

The old town center with in the back (left) the 52 meter Zuiderplantage residential tower and to the right the dome of the Friesland Bank
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/oldehove11.jpg

more photo's at Greetings from Leeuwarden (http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/)

6.5/10

Photo update (all photo's by SSC member Ramses):

Europaplein (Europe Square - west entrance of the town) seen from the West:
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/403/europapleinpano90akx5.jpg

Great panoramic view from the Stephenson bridge:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/3851/panoviaduct2agk7.jpg
(from l > r: Vitens Fryslân (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=745084) - Nieuwlandstate - some small buildings - NHL (college, behind first church tower) - Oldehove (16th century church tower) - UWV (social security office) - ING/Postbank (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=735254) - Avéro Tower (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=384098) - Achmea Tower (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=56219) - Rijkswaterstaat (white office building in front of towers) - Friesland Foods (waaaaay in back, middle of the railroad tracks)

More up to date photo of the left part of the previous one, construction of the 50m WTC behind Vitens:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Nemo01/lwd-17-11-08.jpg

Some nice towers, but not much of a pretty skyline.... 6,5/10

8/10. This is the city I live in. Som more highrise-pics from my own archive:

01. Achmea/Avero as seen from the Westerkade:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5209/img1592qg8.jpg

02. Twins, look-a-likes?:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9456/img1591ao6.jpg

03. Autum 2008-shadow`s falling at the Schoolstreet:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8537/img1606cs0.jpg

04. Often forgotten in the Leeuwarden skyline: The battery with huge silos at Royal Koopmans Meelfabrieken:

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4359/img0216cs4.jpg

05. Finally, a model of the Achmea tower, 114,5 m. :

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4493/img1610bj8.jpg
Thanx for sharing! :)

4/10 :ohno:

In my opinion one of the best skylines in the Netherlands! It is not just the number of the buildings that count, but the way the buildings create a recognizable skyline. Even a few buildings can do that. No other city in the Netherlands has such an iconic skyline as Leeuwarden, the few buildings define the skyline in an unique way.

Beat this!
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Nemo01/skylineleeuwarden.gif

8/10 :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/3242387450_abceef3963_b.jpg

Source (www.flickr.com/photos/liwwadden)

6/10

Cropped + uploaded with imageshack, therefore sorry about the lack of quality. Scroll >>>

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4315/lwdskyline.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lwdskyline.jpg)

6/10

6.5/10

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3345/3612173274_4f4d0dd8bf_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/3607990697_d4a953d39f_b.jpg

7. Regards.

7/10

My picture of the Achmea tower:

http://i37.tinypic.com/eg770y.jpg

7/10

not bad 7/10

4/10

Skyline citycenter from the 16th floor of a residential tower:
http://www.groetenuitleeuwarden.nl/foto/foto-uitdehoogte/zuiderplantage07.jpg

Leeuwarden is still impressive because of it's small size (93.000 inhabitants).

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http://i44.tinypic.com/153wr9v.jpg

Love the centerpiece tower. 5/10

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6/10