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I feel like this picture is misleading. The first one was taken a lot further away from those towers and you can see most of the trees were already there. The first picture is also taken in rainy weather which makes everything seem way more dull than it really is. It's hard to tell what has actually changed between these two pictures, if anything at all.
River. It's the river. Kinda hard to see if you don't know what to look for.
It’s hard to tell what has actually changed between these two pictures, if anything at all.
The bleeding great moat going through the middle, for a start?
i assumed the moat is simply not visible on the first pic? did they make the water appear out of nowhere?
The road used to be a canal, and was drained, and paved to 12 lanes in the 70's. They ripped it back out and re-naturalized it to great success.
They canal is the road, the nature is sidewalks. Literally everything is different.
ok that's pretty epic if true
so I found this location on Street View and there have indeed been some changes since 2014 and now:
Second is most likely a mockup photo for the project as it was proposed.
No it's real; see my other comment.
Yeah I meant they did go through with it, but it's not (yet) exactly like the plans show; they're still building most of the stuff around it.
This is a real picture
I'll happily believe that once I see where it came from. At the moment I still think it looks uncanny in a way but I may well be wrong.
Here's a page detailing the results of the restoration with plenty of other photos, including a higher resolution version of the photo in the post
https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/recuperacion-del-canal-catharijnesingel-en-utrecht
Thank you! I looked around but hadn't found this.
It's a bit less idyllic at the moment since it's still winter but in the spring and summer it really does look like that.
Oh my god then shut up and go look it up. Good lord. "I won't believe this, despite multiple people confirming it, until whatever will make me believe it is spoon fed to me directly".
I did look for it, and if you had read a few comments further, you'd have seen I have been corrected.
these aren't plans tho, I'm pretty sure it's a real picture