Carrasco Square, Amsterdam
West 8 Adriaan Geuze- Typologies Landscape architecture / Urban planning Square
- Material Iron
- City Amsterdam
- Country Netherlands
- Photographer Jeroen Musch
The square is a knot of circulating traffic and pedestrians with train lines overhead, designed as a mosaic of grass and asphalt; the treatment of the columns which support the train lines creates an urban forest.
Lighting is one of the key elements of the project: the iron ‘trunks’ are lamps with light which varies in tone from orange to magenta; some of the support columns also work as street lamps...[+]