The willy-nilly parking of bicycles on Dam Square, Beursplein and surrounding areas will soon be a thing of the past, as far as Amsterdam’s city planners are concerned.
The latest version of the city’s ‘Red Carpet’ project includes plans for an underground garage for 1100 bicycles, to be contructed at Beursplein.
Amsterdam’s most exclusive warehouse is saying goodbye to clothes by Mexx, the troubled Amsterdam-based design firm which just a few years ago was listed among the world’s top fashion brands.
Saying the designer’s apparel has become too run of the mill, the Bijenkorf says it will stop carrying Mexx’s women’s lines by this summer. It has already stopped carrying the firm’s men’s and children’s clothes.
Drilling for the North-South extension of the Amsterdam metro system is scheduled to start on March 11, but now warehouse De Bijenkorf has demanded the city first performs more research into the risks involved.
Persistent problems during the construction of underground stations for the metro line have already caused damage to several historical buildings.
Dutch music groups Novastar and Bløf along with singer Sabine Star will give concerts on Thurday in a shop window at De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam’s largest and most prestigious department store.
They will be the guests of radio station Q-Music, which will be broadcasting all day from an improvised studio in the shop’s corner display window.