Amsterdam Canal Bridge with Dutch Golden Age Architecture

19 September 2017 · Amsterdam

A brick canal bridge in Amsterdam's grachtengordel, bicycles locked to its railing, anchors a view that has barely changed in three centuries. Stepped gables and 17th-century façades stack along the canal's edge, warm brick against an October sky moving between cloud and blue. The canal reflection pulls the geometry downward, doubling what the street level already gives you — the architecture is the argument, the city just happens to still be using it.