Unbuilt Amsterdam
From a Parisian-style boulevard to a bridge across the IJ, take a trip around the unbuilt #Amsterdam
Amsterdam could have had a Parisian-style boulevard.
Around the turn of the last century, the city council accepted proposals for a new commodity exchange. It initially favored a design sponsored by hotelier W.P. Werker, who would have demolished a whole street of buildings between the Dutch capital’s central railway station and the Royal Palace on the Dam Square to create something of a…