Ed Cuypers, 1894; Turret on Prinsengracht, our local canal. Interesting to me for separation between window frames and framing columns which show sky flowing around and through. Ed was nephew of PJH Cuypers Amsterdam’s defining architect (Central Station, Riksmuseum). He sponsored de Klerk and the Amsterdam School crew in their infancy.
G. van Arkel 1905; Dutch art nouveau, an uncommon style in the Netherlands; built for an Insurance Office, later the 1990s Greenpeace HQ
Michael de Klerk 1917-20 Eigenhaard workers housing. The brickwork and sculpting of this complex made it my destination in Amsterdam; the most expressive of Expressionism.
AC Bleys 1881; a delicate shop tower, drawn on our last morning (boohoo) before the aiport - just around the corner from our charming AirBnB.
Hendrick de Keyser 1619(1); the Mint Tower, base dating to the 1400’s, this stands at a cross-roads (cross-canals) for the Amstel river and convergence between the inner and outer canal city sectors.
C H Peters 1895-99; an intense neo-gothic presence, (but now a shopping center -whew!)
Michael de Klerk 1921-23 Henriette Ronnerplein workers housing. Another brick fantasy intent on dignifying the working-person’s domestic identity within a mass housing development.
Michael de Klerk 1917-20 Eigenhaard workers housing. This other end of Eigenaard looks like a locomotive in brick; pertinent beside the central station rail tracks.
A lovely house near the Vondelspark with no ascriptions but some diignity & poise, yes?