Memo Board Zuidas Updates

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Dynamic Zuidas

One of the first events back in Zuidas: Zuidas Businessride

After two quiet years, the Zuidas Businessride once more got the green light to team up in Zuidas and raise money for a good cause. More than 70 cyclists in eight company teams biked 40, 60 or 80 kilometres for WereldOuders. With Ambassador Frits Sissing starting the race, everyone put their pedals to the metal, fuelled by positive spirit. It was another successful edition, raising €14,245 in emergency aid to help Haiti after the disastrous earthquake. Titled New Neighbours, this painting offers an outspoken view on two different neighbourhoods: Minervalaan and Zuidas. The canvas is currently on view in the Symphony Tower, on the 26th floor. Made by the artist Jos Brölmann, he says the following about his work: “In this painting, I bend perspective. The painting shows an avenue where beautifully designed villas are confronted with the high-rises of Zuidas. But I gave the houses other dimensions to bring the two very different neighbourhoods together slightly; to create some harmony in a new reality.”

NEW AFC CLUBHOUSE AND MUNICIPAL SPORT PARK UP AND RUNNING!

The Amsterdam Football Club’s new clubhouse and the municipality’s new ‘Goed Genoeg’ sport park are officially in use. The AFC clubhouse itself, designed by Paul de Ruiter Architects, was sustainably built and is future-ready, with features including solar panels on the roof and district heating fed by residual heat. The new, partially covered stands seat 600 spectators for home matches of Amsterdam’s oldest football club. Once completed, the sport park will offer five artificial turf pitches that will also be available for nearby schools and clubs to use. The pitches have been relocated northward and now sit side by side. This has freed up space for another 1,350 new homes in Zuidas!

ZUIDAS SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS

Renowned photographer Jeroen Swolfs combines his Streets of the World exhibition in Zuidas with smartphone city walks through the area, teaching participants about photography and turning them into smartphone photography pros. The Hello Zuidas team recently got the opportunity to try out this fun and educational experience. With the day’s best picture-taker promised a prize, everyone was focused on winning the competition! Zuidas is a beautiful spot to take pictures. Not only of architecture, but of people in the built environment – at work, going about their lives and visiting the district. This smartphone photo class is a lovely way to enjoy the scenery out and about in Zuidas.

FISCALIST IN ZUIDAS

Tax advisory firm Kraaijeveld Coppus Legal (KC Legal) has applied its persuasive power to get author Lydian Coppus to pen an honest-to-goodness spicy tax-themed romance. Lydian Coppus was given the mission nearly impossible of featuring a tax advisor as an objet d’amour. But she pulled it off. And what a page-turner! Friggo Kraaijeveld and Ceriel Coppus of KC Legal: “It was past time for this tax romance. For too long, we tax advisors have dwelt in the social and romantic shadows. Generations of us have been cold-shouldered at festivities and parties. Older generations have accepted this fate, but the new guard of tax professionals are not yet lost. This novel shows the passionate heart beating behind the piles of tax legislation and spreadsheets.”

Buy your copy using the QR code or go to www.kclegal.nl/bestellen and rescue that tax advisor from their lonely corner at the Blauwe Engel!