20.7.11

Demolition for progress

Today I cycled past the former bank building on the corner of the Ceintuurbaan and the Ferdinand Bol. But there was no bank, merely a lot of metal, used to strengthen the concrete floor. It's not clearly visible in this Nokia-snapshot, but just trust me there was a lot of metal there.



When I looked at it, I realized it must have been the functional ground floor or basement, in which vaults or safe deposits of the Incassobank were located. Because that's the bank that was built here:


before it eventually became ABN AMRO building below...


which is now taken down to allow for the South-entrance of the newest Amsterdam subway extension (Noord-Zuid lijn).