Suite des aventures du bar-restaurant-club 11 qui en 2005-2008 occupait à Amsterdam l'immeuble de la Poste locale avant sa rénovation
Quand les groupes de presse hollandais déménagent, il faut bien occuper les batiments abandonnés. Voilà donc le Trouw Amsterdam qui a ouvert depuis mars 2009.
Extrait d'un article du blog Globespotters (New York Times)
Wibautstraat is emerging as a center of hip in this city, splashed in disappearing newsprint.
The street, located on on the city’s east side, on the number 3 tram line, was once known as a newspaper row. In the last few years, though, most of its publishing tenants, who print some of the country’s most important newspapers, have moved their operations elsewhere, leaving behind a cluster of empty buildings.
Now one stretch of Wibautstraat is being transformed into a new kind of creative hub.
Last month Trouw Amsterdam opened in the low-slung industrial building that used to serve as headquarters for the daily paper Trouw. Part nightclub, part late-hours restaurant, with room to spare for an art gallery, the venue is the brainchild of veterans of the city’s now defunct venue 11. Trouw’s owners are looking to build on a key element of 11’s reputation.
En face, on trouve le Canvas (toujours un extrait d'un article du blog Globespotters )
Trouw Amsterdam sits across from the Volkskrantgebouw, a hulking, seven-story concrete-and-glass structure that housed the country’s most important paper for 40 years before the Volkskrant moved its headquarters eastward in early 2007. Shortly after the paper moved out, the artists moved in. Urban Space, a firm that tries to create affordable workspace for artists, turned each floor into studios.
The top floor is occupied by Canvas, another club-slash-restaurant that displays contemporary art on its walls. Canvas boasts one of the most spectacular and unimpeded views in Amsterdam. Sitting outside with a coffee and a good book is an inspiring way to spend an afternoon.
Both buildings exude industrial rawness.
“We like to sort of hint at the history of the building,” Mr. Boswijk said. “We just put in a kitchen, a sound system and a bar. We haven’t even cleaned up any of the ink stains.”
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