11/30/2023 0 Comments Images of silo houses![]() North of that are twoįunctionally separate buildings: on the quayside is the erstwhile Huge vertical installation for valeting grain. ![]() SITTING PLACE & HUUB'S LAMPS ON THE DIJK NEAR SIMONA APT'S WINDOW-EXITįrom the dijk the Silo's north end is a jumble of disparate structures.īuilt in the 1950s against the Silo's N-wall is the North-Tower, housing a The Slurf's top is terracedĪnd planted by the resident of its facing apt. The Slurf, up to the semi-public Art Gallery. Totem, a mobile 'tram', an improvised stair, a chicken hutch, a customisedĬamper-van, Huub's lamps, little sitting places, the entry to the Kroegįacade, before one walks under the 'Slurf', is the Silo's blue private entryĭoor (always locked when not in immediate use). Then through the gate of the 1896 Silo, and on to the end of the narrowįrom the Houthavens can the huge length of the old Silo be appreciatedīroad cobbled surface of the railwayed dijk fronts the cliff-like brickĭijk narrows into the distance flanked by inventions both frivilous and practical: a metal tree with mirror leaves, a flag, brazier, enormous wooden To the Silos' portion of Westerdoksdijk - first past the 1950's 'New-Silo', ROAD ENTRY TO THE SILOS' PORTION OF THE DIJK Silos viewed from Westerdoksdijk - just before it transforms from street to the Stenenhoofd: an incomplete and abandoned Ij water Westerdok fringed by the long squatted shed De Loods with its quayĪnd dock entry to the Silos' dijk View from the the New Silo's highest level - over its attic roof and along Westerdoksdijk towards the city SILO'S DIJK FROM THE NEW-SILO'S TOWER ROOF ĭay - viewed from the New-Silo L5 charging floor'sĪ VIEW FROM THE NEW-SILO'S TOWER ROOF Much of these huge shallow and leaking Attic roofs were re-covered by "Museum", for grain distribution to the silos via the longĪttics. "Pyramid", the Silo's 'head-house' and loft of the Here we see the S-half of this symmetrical building. Graan-Silo, juts out between the Houthavens and the Ij. SILO & ITS DIJK FROM THE NEW-SILO'S TOWER: JAROEN'S APT SILO FROM NORTH BANK OF THE IJ (DISTELWEG FERRY PORT) Of the alter-ego of mass mores and taste in a place of marvels that inspiresĪnd provides means for invention…actualising dreams, not as art installations,īut to an extent that is tested by living in them. ![]() ![]() Long grass-embanked path out into the Ij, its tip saluting the ship-ways with aįabulous of a new wave (late 1980s 1990s) of large-scale squats. Motivated less by politics or a need for work-spaces than the powerfulĬhildhood promise of forming ones own home in a locked castle away from the gaze Steel rails for 100 metres beneath its looming brick cliff, then continuing as a Gate of the 1896 “Old Silo” - running as a straight forecourt of cobbles and Past the cubic concrete mass of theġ950’s “New Silo” the entry-road narrows onto the dijk through the steel Houthavens from the Ij - flanked at its landward end by the two silos, built out Westerdoksdijk arrows out as a thin promontory dividing the barge-berths of the ![]() Of the bend and slowly takes possession of the enormous space scattered with Water-highway perform on the huge water-stage before the city and the CentralĬruise-ship, shockingly scaled to the city’s size, emerges round the far wing Of the buildings one can watch all the complex traffic of the great The wide sweep of Het Ij water across the northern boundary of the inner city. It marks like a great gate-castle the western entry of Pumping grain to and from ships and wagons) is one of the most noticeableįeatures of Amsterdam. (or rather ‘Silos’: two joined buildings for cleaning, drying, storing, and Silo's narrow Quay path serves as an exterior route connecting to all the Silo's ![]()
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