BUILDING THE FUTURE
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THURSDAY 23 - SUNDAY 26 JANUARY Jumping Amsterdam @ RAI Amsterdam • Equestrian sports enthusiasts gathered in RAI Amsterdam at the end of January. • Spectators could enjoy top-class dressage. • With fantastic winners like Isabell Werth on Weihegold OLD and Marc Houtzager on Sterrehof’s Dante, Jumping Amster-
GROUNDWORK FOR APARTMENTS AT BEATRIXPARK Groundwork has kicked off for
are set to be completed in 2024. An
which is a tremendously aggressive exotic
construction of two apartment
important component of the building
weed. Also on the docket is draining the
buildings along Beatrixpark, which
plans is the careful drafting of a new
stretch of water between Kapel and the
will occupy the area between the St.
landscaping plan for the public space
building site. By gradually draining the
Nicolaaslyceum and the Kapel and
around the apartment buildings.
water from east to west, we’ll give aquatic
Convict buildings.
life an opportunity to migrate to the main
CONSTRUCTION PREPARATIONS
waterway. This work will also factor in
Altogether we’re building 450 residences
Throughout this year we’ll be preparing
the bird breeding season and fish and
at Beatrixpark, on two plots known as 2
this area for construction. All of the trees
amphibian spawning seasons, meaning
and 6/7. Construction on plot 6/7 (300
that stood here had to be felled. Apart
the water will be drained between mid-
units) will start in 2021, and on plot 2
from removing trees, we had to get rid
July and November 2020. The area will be
(150 units) thereafter. Both buildings
of the Japanese knotweed found here,
replanted after construction.
Text Jos Moerkamp • Photography Kees Winkelman
dam surpassed itself yet again.
Photography Abbink fotografie
