Architektur erfahren

Bicycles in the bike rental beside Café Berlage/ Damrak/ going down/ on HERZBLUT.

Stop 1: New underground bicycle parking/ Amsterdam Central

Stop 2: IJ DOCK: City history/ Water/ Amsterdam North/ Harbor-style architecture/ Westerdok stacked containers/ Restaurant Wolf Atelier on the rotating part of the railway bridge/ development + Ijdok idea (the internet) - FLATIRON Building NY and the architecture in Amsterdam.

Stop 3: at the end of Ijdock/ looking back at the buildings and their impact.

Recesses in the buildings as a visual extension of the canals/ slate roofs as rippling water surfaces/ reflections/ form of the Aitana Hotel like sails on a ship

Stop 4: Stenenhof/ railway terrain/ loading station/ most desired parcel for project developers, but protected and non-buildable due to a special plant: dog walking area/ cultural activities/ café and swimming zone

other side: Harbor/ Industry/ High-rise with two towers: as if torn apart: Balconies as remnants, fallen stones form apartments/ black at the bottom becomes light at the top.

Stop 5: Silodam/ End

View of NDSM shipyard (explain: culture/ street art/ flea market etc.)

Shipyard

HOUTHAVENS

Mast route

Houseboats

Warehouses

Glistening pavement/ street

Underground parking/ robot

Terrace on the IJ (go through the building via stairs/ stadium look up/ behind.)

Stop 6:

Kapiteinshuis series

Explain here: CANAL HOUSES/ construction method/ canal belt/ why the houses are crooked/ oak pillars/ first stone houses/ so actually the info usually explained at the Multatuli bridge.

Stop 7: Realengracht/ Vierwindendwarsstraat

in front of the SMALLEST bridge in Amsterdam

Prinseneiland

Shipyards for sloops

Expensive

super location

centrally located

no tourists

Nowadays inhabited by yuppies

View Pontsteiger (from the little bridge)

Stop 8: Zeilmakerstraat on the water

Houseboats

Playground on ship hulls (diagonally left opposite)

Westerdok from the front/terraces

Houseboats

Playground on ship hulls (diagonally left opposite)

Westerdok from the front/terraces