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埋め立て地
レジデンス4ヶ月と28日目
画材屋へ買い出しに。
普段は画材はライクスのペイントワークショップから適当に持ってきて使いますが(マテリアル・バジェットから天引き)、週末はワークショップが閉まっているので画材屋まで買い出しにいきます。
買い出しといっても、ここでも現金はいりません。領収書がライクスに廻ってきてバジェットから天引きです。手ぶらでお買い物!いいねえ〜。
このライクス御用達の画材屋は「Levant」といいます。Levantはライクスから自転車で10分くらい、中央駅から少しはなれた埋め立て地域にあります。
この埋め立て地域は、慢性の土地不足に悩むオランダ政府によって企画、区画された地域で、オランダの近代建築のメッカとしてよく知られています。
私的にはがらんとした埋め立て地域に突飛な形の建築物がたくさんあったり、急にパブリックアートがある、企画とはほど遠いシュールな地域というかんじですが、この異世界感もなかなか楽しいものがあるので、アムスにお越しの際はぜひどうぞ。
The Made Ground
I went to the art supply store.
I usually get what I need from the paint workshop at Rijks (the cost is deducted from our material budget); but over the weekend, as the workshops are closed, I sometimes go to the art supply store called Levant. The shop is located in the made ground not very far from Amsterdam Central Station, about ten minutes by bicycle from Rijks.
The shop is not part of Rijks, but we don’t have to pay at this place either. They will pass the receipt to Rijks and the cost is deducted from our material budget. We don’t have to bring anything! How nice.
This made ground area is planned and organized by the Dutch government in order to solve their never-ending problem of land shortage. It is also known as a key site for Dutch contemporary architecture.
This area looks anything but surreal to me; it is a kind of empty land, spotted with strange-shaped buildings and public art sculptures. But I kind of enjoy this strange atmosphere. If you have chance to visit Amsterdam, this is also a place of interest.