van Vliet
The New Church at Delft with the tomb of William of Orange

HENDRICK CORNELISZ. VAN VLIET
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, from beneath the Organ Loft at the Western Entrance, 1662

Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft

Emanuel de Witte
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 1615-1691/92

Gerard Houckgees
The Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent

Gerard Houckgeest
De graftombe van Willem de Zwijger in de Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, 1651

Emmanuel de Witter
Intérieur de la Nieuwe Kerk de Delft, 1656

Gerard Houckgeest
Ambulatory of the New Church in Delft, c1651

Hendrik Cornelisz. van Vliet
The Tomb of William the Silent, New Church, Delft, mid 1600s

on second thought, this probably IS the New Church

Dutch paintings in the Oude Kerk, Delft.

Hendrick van Vliet, 1654.
Two dogs in foreground. On the right a grave is being dug.

attr to Hendrick van Vliet
Showing the tomb of Admiral Heijn. On the left three figures, to the right a grave is being dug.

attributed to Cornelisz de Man. Formerly attributed to Hendrick van Vliet.
View from the choir to the portal.

Gerrit Houckgeest, 1654
A green curtain is pulled back in the foreground, revealing a view of two groups of figures and one dog.

Emanuel de Witte, 1650/2
Portion of a grave in the foreground. Two children graffiti a pillar, and a dog relives himself on another.

Cornelis de Man, 1660/70
A nursing mother.

Hendrick van Vliet, 1660.
An open grave at center, a single figure behind.

Emanuel de Witte, c. 1680
A group of figures listen to a sermon.

Official site of the largest development underway in Amerstdam. 28.000 housing units on a number of artificial islands.

Wind energy in the netherlands

Decrying the closed planning process in the NL, with a somewhat confused idea of the role of design and art. "I never heard of a competition where the least talented designer was given the commission"

some stuff about almere

"The bus lanes in particular, in which no other traffic is allowed, form incomprehensible, empty and as often as not dead fenced-off barriers between and even in the middle of neighbourhoods. There are no landmarks, no stand-out buildings. Noise barriers and roadside greenery for that matter block the view of what lies behind."

Hoe hoog is de Oostvaardersdijk-Noord?
Hoogte nu: gemiddeld 2,8m +NAP

"Stevin's goal was to bring about a second age of wisdom, in which mankind would have recovered all of its earlier knowledge. He had deduced that the language spoken in this age would have had to be Dutch, because, as he had showed empirically, in that language, more concepts could be indicated with monosyllabic words than in any of the (European) languages he had compared it with."

series of conferences around Dutch planning/design/water management techniques and New Orleans.

on the growth of Almere

nice little exposition of dutch relationship to water, NAP, etc

dutch wikipedia article on normaal amsterdams peil

Installation at the NAP point in Amsterdam. Tubes show the current sea levels and the high mark of the 1953 floods.

The Dutch reference water levels based on a (now) arbitrary standard in Amsterdam. It's all complicated by the fact that most of the Netherlands is sinking at the rate of 2mm a year.

Review of the 4 delta metropool proposals from the 2002 brief.

regional gov't in Amersterdam - what they say they do

regional government in NL

crackpot on the randstad. interesting.

"Waterstudio.NL is specialized in architecture and cityplanning related to living, working and recreation on water."

No idea, but lots of pretty maps of economic data in NL

The Dutch planning agency has a very limited set of geodata publicly available.

Dutch Geodata

"i'm too sad too tell you" is a wonderful work.

"concerns itself with research and development in the field of art and media technology." A little vague, but chock full of framesets & Dutch. MONDO2000 would be proud.

"built a tunnel through the space that made the non-public space of the gallery into a public space" 24 hrs a day.

'According to a contemporary account: "[Göring] looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world."' via kio

Good strategy: expel your token assimilated Muslim. [twist: Hirsi Ali is coming to the US for a job at the AEI]

forgot about this one: "During two months (in 2002) all of Amsterdam's residents are invited to be equipped with a tracer-unit. These tracers' data generate lines forming a (partial) map of Amsterdam in realtime."

from mapping worlds

"[NGOs] spend a lot of effort assembling statistics and assessing changes. Mapping Worlds wants ... to better detect and analyze differences between countries or regions."

deserves a long look