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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).
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.
The branch of McDonald’s planned for the ground floor of The Gustav residential complex is in doubt. A court has ruled that residents have not been kept adequately informed by the fast food chain, and they are therefore entitled to stop McDonald’s from opening in their building.
The brand new INNSiDE hotel by Meliá has made around 20 rooms available as artists’ studios for students of the nearby Gerrit Rietveld Academie. They are working there on art that will soon take pride of place in the hotel.
Right now, the EDGE Stadium building – former office of Loyens & Loeff on Fred. Roeskestraat 100 – looks like a bit like a demolition site. And that includes the roof.
Architect Winy Maas is not pulling any punches: the design for Valley also includes a critique of the classic Zuidas. ‘The reflective glass panels are a reference to the inaccessible Zuidas of old. The green valley that breaks through, that represents the Zuidas of the future.’