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Middelgrunden Wind Farm |
Middelgrunden is an offshore wind farm in the Øresund 3.5 km outside Copenhagen, Denmark. When it was built in 2000, it was the world's largest offshore farm, with 20 turbines and a capacity of 40 MW. The farm delivers about 4% of the power for Copenhagen.
In 1996, the project was initiated by the ... |
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Oude Kerk |
The Oude Kerk (old church) is Amsterdam’s oldest building and oldest parish church, consecrated in 1306 by the bishop of Utrecht with Saint Nicolas as its patron saint.
After the Reformation in 1578 it became a Calvinist church, which it remains today. It stands in De Wallen, now Amsterdam's main r... |
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Blauwbrug |
The Blauwbrug (literally, blue bridge) is an historic bridge in Amsterdam. It connects the Rembrandtplein area with the Waterlooplein area.
The bridge owes its name to a wooden "blue bridge" that was there from around 1600 but no longer exists and which was painted the characteristic blue of the Du... |
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Rembrandt House Museum |
The Rembrandt House Museum (Dutch: Museum het Rembrandthuis) is the house in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam where Rembrandt lived and painted for nearly twenty years. It is now a museum.
Rembrandt purchased the house in 1639 and lived there until he went bankrupt in 1656, when all his belongings were... |
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Hotel Nhow in Berlin |
The nhow Berlin is a 4+ music lifestyle hotel. It offers 304 rooms and a convention center with 7 meeting rooms. It is part of the lifestyle brand nhow hotels developed by the Spanish hotel chain NH Hoteles. The NDC Nippon Development Corporation acted as the project developer. The hotel is situated... |
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Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder |
Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (English: Our Lord in the Attic) is a 17th century canal house, house church, and museum in the city center of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Catholic Church was built on the top three floors of the canal house during the 1660s. It is an important example of a schuilkerk, or ... |
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Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam |
Hortus Botanicus is a botanical garden in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
One of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, it is one of Amsterdam's major tourist attractions.
Hortus Botanicus was founded in 1638 by the city to serve as an herb garden for doctors and apothecaries. It contains more th... |
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Amsterdam Arena |
Amsterdam Arena (often stylized as Amsterdam ArenA) is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
It is the largest stadium in the country and it was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of € 140 million, and was officially opened on 14 August 1996.
It has been used for association football, American footb... |
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Concertgebouw |
The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" literally translates into English as "concert building".
Because of its highly regarded acoustics, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with places such as B... |
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New Synagogue in Berlin |
The Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) was built 1859–1866 as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community, on Oranienburger Straße. Because of its splendid eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century in Berl... |
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