Print Email Facebook Twitter The Rijksmuseum and the city: A hundred years of planning for Museumplein Title The Rijksmuseum and the city: A hundred years of planning for Museumplein Author Wagenaar, C. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architectural Engineering +Technology Date 2013-11-23 Abstract Built on the edge of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century canal ring, the Rijksmuseum has always formed the transition between the historical centre and the urban extensions that began in the late nineteenth century. For obvious reasons, the museum was designed to face the existing city, but the municipal authorities ordered the construction of a stately passageway through the building to the planned urban extensions. When the Concertgebouw (Concert Hall) was erected some distance away from the museum, this defined an open space between the two buildings, which later became known as Museumplein (Museum Square). Subject RijksmuseumMuseum SquareAmsterdamsurroundings To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:97cf6c48-adc0-4c43-acfa-2217e2d6228b Publisher nai010 uitgevers ISBN 978-94-6208-094-2 Source Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Restoration and transformation of a national monument Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2013 Wagenaar, C.nai010 uitgevers Files PDF 302875.pdf 1.7 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:97cf6c48-adc0-4c43-acfa-2217e2d6228b/datastream/OBJ/view