Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts

Thursday, May 2, 2013

The flowers for the King and Queen

After the coronation of the new dutch king and queen, the church where the whole event took place opened the doors to the public to view the decorations and all the other stuff that was used on the day of the coronation.
I  also wanted to see it myself, so i went to the church. After  50 minutes  waiting in the long row, which was not that bad because  when one talks to others time flies by. I stepped inside the church. Which was really beautiful as you can see in the pictures.

Beurs van Berlage  

Balcony of the royal palace at the dam square


the church







Rutte the dutch prime minister


Magna plaza



The flower outside the church

entering



















the golden chairs of the king and queen
















me




The flowers outside, one hour later

Friday, November 2, 2012

Sandpit Amsterdam central station

For  years now they are working on the renovation of the central station in Amsterdam.  The station square is now ready since half a year i think, the main hall has as far as my memory goes back a rubber-tiling floor because of all the renovation work. I no idea how the real floor looks. So that must be there for years now.

Now they are for quite a while busy creating a new passenger tunnel. That means this tunnel runs under the train platforms. Because of that, they also have removed some of the railroadtracks, and what you see when standing on the platform now is this:

building a new passenger tunnel

the railroad tracks are removed




what i really do like, is that you can see the layers of brick where the stations fundamentals are build from