In December, I wrote about how Amsterdam is dramatically downsizing their red-light district in the coming years. It seems that’s just the least of it.
Rumors are coming in that within a couple decades, Amsterdam will start building a massive underground city. Engineered already by the architecture firm Zwarts & Jansma, it calls for “a range of underground facilities … at various levels below the city.”
The project will cost some 7.4 billion euros and take 20 years. The good news is that the city’s historic canals will be left in place–thought they’ll have to be temporarily drained. Could we see this elsewhere?
I don’t see why not. Many cities are already building as high up as they can possibly go, just look at Shanghai. The next logical step is down. When I was in Beijing, I stayed in a terrible hostel that was minus four stories down. It felt like I was two levels removed from hell.
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