- Zoning plan approved for Vivaldi On 27 May 2021, the City Council approved the zoning plan for two plots in the Vivaldi neighbourhood. This clears the way for the construction of two office buildings, temporary parking for bikes and scooters and various facilities.
- Testing the stone tiles for the new pedestrian passage: coffee, cola and ketchup Three new test areas consisting of stone tiles will be installed at Amsterdam Zuid station this summer. Various types of grey stone tiles will be monitored over the coming year to see how they respond to wear and usage. Tests have already been done to see how they cope with spills and stains such as coffee, cola and ketchup.
- Beekeeper Eddie: ‘We can learn a lot from bees’ 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.
- Mobility survey: more car journeys and less train journeys – even after the pandemic People who travel to and from Zuidas for work used a car more often than the train in 2020. That change that is likely to persist even after the pandemic is over. This was one finding of the Zuidas Mobility Survey, which was dominated by the pandemic.
- The monumental Princesseflat and its tormented architect ‘No solution to gross profiteering’ rang the headline in the 'Het Vrije Volk' newspaper in 1963. Below, it read: ‘Apartment worth 50,000 guilders on the market for 150,000’. The report will certainly not have been the best of news for the man who had an office just above the garages next to the apartment complex.
- Uncertainty over McDonald's restaurant in The Gustav 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.
- New Amsterdam Zuid station will be much easier to access The new Amsterdam Zuid station will have many more stairs, escalators and lifts leading to the platforms than the existing station. That means no more crowds of people on the stairs and escalators leading to the platforms. The new access routes have been designed by Frank Bouwman and his colleagues – a much more complex challenge than you might think.
- Zuidas to have a weekly market From 2 September 2021, Thursday will be market day in Zuidas. Up to thirty market stalls, with a focus on food, will then be offering their fresh produce in Gershwinplein. The market will run for an initial 18-month trial period.
- Monument is revenge served sweet In 1943, a ‘quite difficult boy’ was expelled from the Ignatiuscollege Catholic school for insulting a teacher. That very same boy would ultimately go on to build an alternative for that school: the Sint-Nicolaaslyceum. Two monumental buildings in Zuidas bear testament to these past events.
- Homes and offices to be built on site of temporary court building The City of Amsterdam and the Central Government Real Estate Agency are working on plans to realize homes and offices on the site where the temporary court building currently stands. The new court building was opened at the beginning of May, which means that this area will be available for a new development.