The Hague, Netherlands

[cityskyscrapers]

The Hague (Den Haag or 's Gravenhage), population 525,000. All photos taken between November 2014 and September 2017.

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4. 'De Passage' shopping arcade.


5. Until 1995 a cigarette factory, now an office complex.


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23. Mural on the post office building 'Kerkplein'.


24. Panorama Mesdag.


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27. Facade of the new sporting campus 'Zuiderpark'.



Scheveningen beach and port

28. Burial at sea / scattering ashes at sea.


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Gemeentemuseum (The Hague Municipal Museum)

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35. Piet Mondriaan, Victory Boogie Woogie.


36. From close-up it looks like quite a mess.



Royal waiting room at train station 'Hollands Spoor' from 1893

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German hospital shelter 'Van Ouwenlaan' from 1944 (part of the Atlantic Wall)

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Haagse Bos (recreational woodland)

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The 'Binnenhof', the oldest House of Parliament in the world still in use

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Old-Catholic clandestine church of H.H. Jacobus and Augustinus

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UrbanFarmers, rooftop farm on a former office building

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Papestraat

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58. 'The smallest shop' fastfood


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[Murphy de la Sucre]

Cities in Netherlands have urban developing problems that make cityscapes neither European nor American, right in between, disharmonious way.

[tdawg]

Remarkable city. Perfect-looking actually.

[gatt]

good job

[AJW]

Great compositions and views.

[mrnyc]

hoops in da hague --

and density and grit and trees and shopping and art and sand and historic, etc.

good to see -- very nice thread!

[mr1138]

The Netherlands understands how to build cities perhaps better than any other country on earth. The fact that they are all so accessible to one another makes it even better. Beautiful pictures of a great city!

Edit made: nm. Too easy to feed the trolls.

[SHiRO]

Originally Posted by Murphy de la Sucre

Cities in Netherlands have urban developing problems that make cityscapes neither European nor American, right in between, disharmonious way.

Weird comment...

Especially since it's made by someone living in Belgium, the country with the most disharmonious build environment I'm aware of.

Anyway, great pics as always!

[McBane]

Nice thread! Interesting city...gotta love a city whose name starts with the word "The".

[Nightsky]

The Hague has skyscrapers, Netherlands second best skyline, the country's best beach, trams, futuristic architecutre and lots of beautiful classic buildings. Overall a nice city, visited some years ago!

[mousquet]

Originally Posted by Murphy de la Sucre

Cities in Netherlands have urban developing problems that make cityscapes neither European nor American, right in between, disharmonious way.

You are blinded by the ultra conformist established standards. This is so obviously a stylish town, though.

I won't approve anything the Netherlands does, like their tax policies may be questionable...
They've been a bit like the Irish, trying to steal big greedy company headquarters from anyone trying to behave and have some fair social policy, which is messing up the EU and ruining faith in it.

Their contemporary architecture is nonetheless beautiful and most influential worldwide.
That's quite something to this small country.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by McBane

Nice thread! Interesting city...gotta love a city whose name starts with the word "The".

i remember when ohio state university added "the" in the late 1980s -- boy they got a lot of ridicule.