Contrast

More contrast in the landscape: Human versus Nature.

You can feel the tensions.

And that is what it makes interesting.

Other lives

Amazing, a fairytale
A beautiful sound
That is Other Lives
Nijmegen Doornroosje 17 november 2011

Back in time.

http://otherlives.com/

GLOW

Yesterday was the last day of GLOW in Eindhoven, The Light-city of the Netherlands.
A route through the city and the university campus with a lot of different light and sound shows projected on buildings.

The picture below I made by the train station.

Autumn love

Autumn

Seed

The End is the Start

The Start of a new Beginning

Birds on a wire

Fireman walk with us

In Maastricht vindt op dit moment de Biënnale Leegstand en Herbestemming plaats.
In dit kader is de tentoonstelling Fireman walk with us in het Eifelgebouw.
Het Eifel gebouw staat in 'lichter laaien'.

Voor een mooie impressie check de video op http://www.biennalemaastricht.nl/nl/exposities/in-het-kort.aspx

In Maastricht is on this moment the first Biënnale vacancy and redevelopment. Goal is to reset our mind-set to improve and use our vacant buildings and locations instead of building something new somewhere else. The Exposition Fireman walk with is, is part of the Biënnale. The Eifel-building (old Sphinx -factory) is 'put on fire' in controle.
Check on this website a nice video http://www.biennalemaastricht.nl/nl/exposities/in-het-kort.aspx

Autumn Walk

On a Sunny Sunday
What better te do than a nice Autumn Walk

These pictures I made Strolling around in 'de weerd' (a Flood plain) nearby Horn and Haelen.
The Flood plain is for the river Maas.

This picture below is a picture to show the contrast in the landscape. A nice land-house on a small natural hill and behind  a energy plant. From there the energy is spread with electricity pylons (not on the picture), they are all over the landscape.

 

Winter in color

The new colortrends for this Winter are presented at kleurinspiratie.nl.
Take a look.
Here are my favorites!

Pumpkin festival

Finaly, the nice part of the autumn is the Indian summer feeling. Although in the Netherlands we don't have that real Indian summer of Amerika. But we also have a harvest month.

This weekend is Pumpkin festival at my favorite nursery in Aalbeek: Kwekerij Bastin. http://bastin.nl/

Even if your garden is full grown and you don't have a place for a new plant, you may not mis the nice atmosphere. It is like you go back in time. You can stroll around here and enjoy the small market and have an bite.

All the picture from the website Bastin.nl

Autumn sunshine

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. [Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864]

Dreaming

I love these pictures from http://www.kleurinspiratie.nl/blog/geraffineerd-grijs.html.
The wallpaper from Graham & Brown in combination with this cosy hanging chair make you dream that you are in a forest. Below is an example from a modern classic interior. The lamp and the green fruits give the whole a boost.

Region in transition, Ruhr 2010 .........

After Ruhr 2010 we were not finished with this area in transition.
So this year we went again for 3 day's.
Things you have to see are the landscape park Duisburg Nord and the Zechen Zollferein in Essen.
The basis of these project were the same, a complete area with plants that are not used anymore. Demolishing was a option but also a very expensive one. So the made the right choice to leave the building as they are.
The difference between these two projects is that the Zechen Zollferein has a clear use, for example the Ruhrmuseum and the Red Dot Design museum that are in the buildings. In the landscape park of course de buildings have a function but the the idea is that nature can take over. The functions came also more organically. For example the climbers have a big space were they climb, even for small children there is a wall to climb. The Divers -association has her own base in the old gasometer, now the 'Tauch-gasometer'.

Below some impressions of both projects.

Landscape park Duisburg Nord

Zechen Zollferein, Essen

A Prins

Yes, finally we have a frog in our pond in the garden.
Our own frog-prins.
Isn't he cute?

I like flowers

Even though I am a earwig.

Color your mood

It is so easy to create a nice atmosphere with color.
Color has a very strong influence on our well-being.
These are my to favorites of the color-trend 2011 by www.kleurinspiratie.nl
Take a look to check your own favorite.

Ceylon city

Oriental industries

Baroque Bouquet

Mixed roses and some green from the garden.

Although it is summer, it feels like autumn.

Some color brightens up my mood.

Living the past

What I love about old buildings is the past that they have.

A past before us,

And the fact that we can use the building again

   in a different way, or

   in the same way.

A past of people walking around in the building

   just like we walk in it.

Or hard working people,

   we can only imagine when we close our eyes.

But the mystical thing about old buildings are the doors and windows.

It are the same window and same door.

We walk through them,

they walked through them

We look through them and see the surrounding,

they looked through them and saw the surrounding,

The difference is the surrounding.

We can only imagine what they saw

and what they were feeling.

This is what I like about old buildings to feel the past

of life that was in the building,

being there were someone else was.

These photos are made by me in 2007 in the Sphinx fabric in Maastricht.