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Has your organisation set up or completed an inspiring sustainable initiative since March 2022? If so, register the project by 1 August 2023 and compete for the Zuidas Sustainability Award. An expert panel of judges will choose the winners in November.
Even in Zuidas, water management is a challenge. For example, the passenger tunnel at Amsterdam Zuid station has been flooded at times. But there are also some more pleasant surprises. They even include a mini-polder, at the heart of Zuidas. Want to know more? Take a stroll and do the Water Walk (‘Ommetje Water’), an audio tour (in Dutch).
Between 1 and 11 May 2023, trees are being planted in Buitenveldertselaan. The street was recently resurfaced and 34 plane trees are being planted where two tram stops used to be. Only car traffic will be affected by (limited) disruption.
The week of 13 March 2023 saw the removal and addition of oak, birch and Prunus trees in Amaliaplein. The high groundwater level has caused the death of eight trees which we are now in the process of replacing. All of the new trees will be planted on Friday, 17 March.
A thermal energy storage system is currently being installed for the ADORE Research & Diagnostic Centre. ADORE is by no means the first building to extract thermal energy from under the ground. In fact, many Zuidas buildings are already doing this. But how does this technology work?
The temporary dam placed in the pond in front of Kapel & Convict is to be removed. This is because it may take some time until these municipal monuments are given a new purpose.
The Kapel & Convict buildings in the Beatrixpark have protected monument status and we would like to gauge market interest in redeveloping them for a cultural and/or societal function. This is being done by means of a market consultation, taking place between 19 September and 14 October 2022.
The monumental courthouse in Parnassusweg will soon be home to a museum of modern art. What do the local residents think of it? At a meeting held on 25 October 2021, most people took a positive view, although there were some critical questions.
The old courthouse building at Parnassusweg 220 will soon be home to the Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum is an initiative of the Hartwig Art Foundation. Interested in finding out more about the plans? If so, come to the meeting on 25 October 2021.
ARTZUID, the internationally renowned art festival in Amsterdam Zuid, will begin on 1 July 2021. Together with founder Cintha van Heeswijck-Veeger, we check out the artworks in and around Zuidas. ‘We’ve been placing sculptures among the construction sites for years.’
We are renovating the pedestrian path that leads along Boerenwetering, between Wielingenstraat and Strand Zuid and Beatrixpark. We have already made a number of improvements, and by autumn 2021, the path will be the perfect place for a stroll.
Among the surprisingly lush greenery in Kop Zuidas, amateur beekeeper Eddie Heijblom is busy caring for his new bee colony. Our original meeting had to be postponed because unfortunately, one of Eddie’s bee colonies did not make it through the winter.