... “Walking Figure”, situated in Westhampton, NY, is a dynamic cartoon-like strolling woman, caught as if in a freeze-frame, energising her surroundings.
Donald Baechler has shown ...
If you were to draw a horizontal line through the centre of the Netherlands, (leaving Amsterdam aside) you would be left with Groningen as the largest city in the top half.
This automatically ...
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Facts & Figures
Did you know that...
* "the Netherlands" and "Holland" are used to describe the same country?
* one quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level? ...
... sand and silt were deposited and resulted in a river course that "swept itself clean". A key figure in this story is city architect Nicolaas Plomp, who, besides his work for the current IJssel ...
... flowers, figures of angels or Dutch flags.
17th and 18th-century windmills
Most of Amsterdam’s 17th-century windmills are unfortunately not open to the public, but hunting for windmills ...
... boats now using electric motors or motors running on natural gas or vegetable oil.
Electric transport facts & figures
Below you will find an overview of facts and figures related to electric ...
... figures come from a survey done by the Fietsberaad. Until recently these kinds of figures were not readlily available because the data from the official Statistics Bureau of the Netherlands, for instance, ...
... symbol for the people from Twente, and in fact for many people who claim to be of Saxon origin. The two legendary figures Hengist and Horsa (both named after horses), who were said to have conquered Great-Britain ...
... more information about these procedures, visit Rechtspraak.nl (in Dutch).
MVVs and temporary residence permits: the figures
In 2009 a total of 50,700 MVV applications were submitted. This ...
... Visitor Profile 2012 and Amsterdam as Convention Destination 2012 Key Figures are available to download for free as an e-book on the ATCB website. The survey findings will enable the effective development ...
Kirigami has 10 stunning preset style variations to choose from, as well as configure from the Gantry administrator, in addition to custom module variations. ...
... capital’s cultural field and leading figures of the international art world. With 46 important artists from all over the world presenting their work, the RijksakademieOPEN offers an overview of the ...
... of Amsterdam. In 2007, the approximate figures were 27,000 and 18,000 respectively. Plans are also already underway to build new hotels and convert vacant office premises into hotels in the coming years. ...
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Tackling vacancy
Approximately 18% of office buildings in Amsterdam are currently vacant and in some areas of the city, the figure approaches nearly 50%. Often solely home to commercial spaces ...
... architecture of the Rijksmuseum; and Large Reclining Figure 1984, a work Moore enlarged to over 9 meters from a 1938 Surrealist maquette only 33cm long. Of particular interest is Locking Piece 1963-64, ...
... be a painting from the Reina Sofia of a figure of a woman in front of a window, which Dalí painted when he was twenty-one. The museum will also be showing an extraordinary portrait Man Ray made ...
... technique and modest figure paintings, it is this thoughtful and experimental Rembrandt who became an example to many printmakers, painters and draughtsmen of later generations.
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... which convincingly display the rainy atmosphere and falling dusk. He suggested the low backlight by portraying the figures, the tree and the traffic on the bridge in the distance as silhouettes, a typical ...