Suburbs in the Netherlands

[GSAA]

Originally Posted by Anderson Geimz

Where did he live? Maybe that will offer some explanaition.

Ledche Rijn (sp?) in Utrecht, almost only ethnic Dutch people there according to him.

[Anderson Geimz]

Originally Posted by GSAA

Ledche Rijn (sp?) in Utrecht, almost only ethnic Dutch people there according to him.

Yeah could be, that's a very new suburb (and one of the largest in the NL).
Don't be surprised if it's 25%-30% minority in 10 years though (like Almere now).

[Anderson Geimz]

Good point.

[julesstoop]

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(stupid forum doesn't take me to the most recent post when I click a thread, so I reply wrongly..)

[woutero]

Google updated Streetview for The Netherlands. Now large parts of The Netherlands are covered, so you can check out the suburbs and the cities for yourself.

Go to maps.google.nl and drag the orange guy to wherever you want.

For instance: Weird houses in Barendrecht, suburb of Rotterdam:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=5...51.06,,0,-4.63

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[kony]

so great....................

[bartjee]

[Muyangguniang]

This is so fucking nice!!!!

Originally Posted by bartjee

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[friedemann]

Does someone know if this are newer developments or older but well preserved and restored buildings?

[Ramses]

Originally Posted by friedemann

Does someone know if this are newer developments or older but well preserved and restored buildings?

These are brand new, in fact this whole buiilt up area is new.


@Muyangguniang: I agree, but please don't quote all these pictures for a single line comment.

[UAE_isthebest]

^ Beautiful design we need more old Dutch architecture in new suburbs in Holland.

[bartjee]

Panootje ---->>>>

[domtoren]

Some images of what Leidsche Rijn looks like from ground level on a rainy day.
It is still far from finished and in many places it looks like a huge construction site.
Soem parts are neo-traditional styled houses and other modern flats along broad avenues and esplanades.

[Ian]

Those brand new old style developments are a disgrace to any city

[Ramses]

Originally Posted by Ian

Those brand new old style developments are a disgrace to any city

Why? Lots of people want to live in such areas, so why not give them something they like? Not everyone likes those modernist appartmentblocks, residential towers or sterile new suburbs. It seems like a lot of contemporary architects are still into modernism, while society evolved into post-modernism.

[Concrete Stereo]

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[Concrete Stereo]

Originally Posted by Ian

Those brand new old style developments are a disgrace to any city

actually, there is a lot of controversy about this

I agree with you, it's shamelessly superficial (though it does fit the Zeitgeist rather well). But I have to say, visiting these retro-suburbs it isn't so much the architecture that is impressing, but the refined public space. Sjoerd Soeters is a very sensitive urbanist, which is obviously also proved by the Java developments in Amsterdam (which are modern in style)