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Double Spiral
You never know what you will encounter on a boat-ride adventure in the rain in Amsterdam. In this case, it was an exquisitely beautiful piece of concrete architecture. The Europarking building is located on the Nassaukade in Amsterdam. Designed and built between 1966-71 by Piet Zanstra, Ab Gmeg Meyling, and Peter de Clerq Zubli, the structure is made with in-situ concrete, in a double-spiral design. The bottom floor accommodates buses, and the seven upper stories are for cars. Unsurprisingly, the building is popular with skaters and bikers taking a recreational spin in the twisted architecture. In a striking turn, at night the headlights of cars cast a spiraling glow that moves up and down the building as vehicles ascend and descend. In 2007, Spencer Tunick selected it as the site for one of his installations, with massed naked volunteers making an equally as arresting spectacle.
(jb)Photo: Naked volunteers pose for Spencer Tunick in the Europarkring building, June 3rd, 2007. (Photo: Reuters/Koen van Weel)
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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