Sunday, May 16, 2010

IJburg island. A design accommodation island but...

That's right. IJburg is an island very close to the mainland of North-East Amsterdam and is all nicely built from scratch. Numerous design houses, villas and blocks of apartments and a few basic shops fill the entire island. It sounds like an excellent location for family life and most of all great architectural design with huge windows.
Although its reputation is not very good. The waether there is horrible, very cold and windy. Mostly inhabitted by working class foreigners because of the surprisingly affordable prices. Also, the atmosphere is very weird, you feel like there are ghosts around. I was surprised because I had seen all those great apartments and houses on the internet and I thought that it would be great to buy one of them one day.

But it's still a mystery to me, it looks so great and tempting...
Take a look.







 Front side...
 ...and back side!


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