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Zaandam (NL)
Updated 23 Aug 2023
Hembrug area is a former industrial complex where arms were made: guns, cannons, tanks. The area is now a refuge for artists. Amsterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij, better known as ADM, was an Amsterdam company that repaired ships using dry docks in the Netherlands. After World War II it also built ships. It is now no longer used as such and artists have found their homes and workplaces there. The restaurant is clad with steel plates that have become rusty. Magnificent.
Nijmegen (NL)
Published 8 Sep 2023
In the lobby to Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Tanja Smeets is exhibiting her 'Glass garden', a metal grid standing 5 metres tall consisting of 3 towers of 800 glass blocks, with 250 sculptures inside. I used the transparant ones to shoot through them and make abstract impressions of the hall which is 5 stories high.
Valencia/Bilbao (E)
Published 7 May 2014, updated 3 Aug 2017
Santiago Calatrava Valls (* 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his spectacular bridges supported by single leaning pylons, his railway stations, stadiums, museums and opera houses.
Lanzarote (E)
Published 6 Jan 2018, updated 28 Jan 2023
Manrique had a great influence on in what way Lanzarote developed and accommodated tourism. He proposed and succeeded in having the island governement build three centres for 'mainstream' tourism, Playa Blanca, Puerto del Carmen and Costa Teguise, individual tourism being spread all over the island.