About Cathedrals and houses in Almere

Lately I learned that Almere - hometown of Arjan - has its own Cathedral. A real copy of the Cathedral of Reims (France) made of living trees, called "the Green Cathedral" (in Dutch: de Groene Kathedraal). In 1978 178 poplars were planted in Almere as an idea of Marinus Boezem.


Now in 2008 the trees are fully grown and together with stone paths forming the perfect shape of the real Cathedral in Reims.

In the future the trees will die and collapse and a ruin of a cathedral will become reality.

A so called contra cathedral already has been planted and when fully grown in about 25 years a ruin and a "real"cathedral can be visited next to each other.......

Before visiting the green cathedral we went for a walk through a very new neighbourhood of Almere. Both of us surprised to see that very modern looking villas were built next to classical ones. And also wondering that if you are living in such a nice and expensive house how it could be that the surroundings are protected by such awful and cheap looking fences. Do people have no taste when it comes to protection of their property?

Hereunder are a few examples of the architecture of "Almere Overgooi"

For more info. about this 5 orange appartments, have a look at http://www.nextarchitects.com/overgooi/

The whole serie of pictures can be found on:

http://community.webshots.com/album/565012418gdsCbe