Friday, February 22, 2008

Underground City in Amsterdam

Unlike the underground cities Saddam supposedly had, Amsterdam is really gonna do it.



AMSTERDAM is to go underground as overcrowding and soaring land prices force planners to look beneath the city's famous canals for future urban development.
The canals will be drained to allow architects to build the underground city, which will reduce the pressures of overcrowding and slash the cost of a parking space

Dutch engineers have unveiled plans for a £7.4 billion underground city providing one million square feet of underground retail, leisure and parking facilities.

"There has always been a lack of space in the city, so what we are doing is building a city under the city by using a new construction technique, which will not interfere with street traffic," said Moshe Zwarts, a partner at the architects Zwarts & Jansma.


I still haven't made it to Europe yet, but when I do, Amsterdam will definitely have to be a stop. They aren't gonna start building this project till 2018 so it's gonna be a while before people can get high low. Get it!?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You write very well.