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    The Lijnbaan is the main shopping street of Rotterdam. It was opened in 1953, as the main pedestrian street in the new shopping district, after the old...
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    Western-Europe 1939–1940, Washington archives Taverne, E.R.M. (1990), The Lijnbaan (Rotterdam): a Prototype of a Postwar Urban Shopping Centre, in Rebuilding Europe's...
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    re-construction, the centre of Rotterdam has become the site of the ambitious new architecture. Rotterdam is also famous for its Lijnbaan 1952 by architects Broek...
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  • entrepreneur Piet Derksen started a sporting goods shop in 1953 at Lijnbaan, Rotterdam. Its name was 'Sporthuis Centrum', 'Sport House Centre'. It succeeded...
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  • Guardian: "I wrote the lyrics [sic] to Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) sitting in a bar on the north end of Lijnbaan, Rotterdam's main shopping street. The bar was...
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    Beurs-World Trade Center Lijnbaan Coolsingel with the city hall and Hofplein Erasmusbrug Willemsbrug Various stations of the Rotterdam Metro Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk...
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    Rotterdam Centraal station (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌrɔtərˈdɑm sɛnˈtraːl]; English: Rotterdam Central station) is the main railway station of the city Rotterdam...
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  • Shortly after, shops and property were smashed in wide-scale looting in Lijnbaan, with windows of 93 stores smashed. Riot police used water cannons to disperse...
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    a department store. De Doelen, a concert venue and convention centre. Lijnbaan, a pedestrianised shopping street opened in 1953. Witte de With Center...
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  • major commission for Louis Kahn, opened November. Lijnbaan pedestrianised shopping street in Rotterdam, designed by Jo van den Broek and Jacob B. Bakema...
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    street, for pedestrians only, the Lijnbaan, which became Europe's first purpose-built pedestrian street. The Lijnbaan served as a model for many other...
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    the studio. The exhibitions Staged Photo Events (1982) in the Lijnbaan Center in Rotterdam and Fotografia Buffa (1986) in the Groninger Museum were influential...
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  • state-run bonded warehouse in 1855. The admiralty also had a ropewalk (lijnbaan) with associated buildings at the Lagendijk just outside the Oostpoort...
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  • Arti, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. 1955. Sculptures in the Lijnbaan, Lijnbaan Rotterdam. 1959. De porseleyne fles ín Paríjs, Dutch Institute in Paris...
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    in 1965 became a professor at Staatliche Hochschule in Hamburg. Lijnbaan, Rotterdam (1949-54) Amstleven, Amsterdam (1961) Buikslotermeer, Amsterdam (1962)...
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    Erasmus MC (category Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    of the Van Oldebarneveltstraat and the Coolsingel (near current Lijnbaan) in Rotterdam and had an imposing facade with a width of eighty-two meters. The...
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    Foundation and the later director of the Museum of Ethnology in Rotterdam. The Lijnbaan Center presented experimental exhibitions on a broad spectrum of...
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    province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after Rotterdam, The Hague, Leiden, and Zoetermeer, with a population of 119,115. The...
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    of the Dutch East Indies Company. This 500 meter long building called Lijnbaan dates from 1660. The lower level had items from the Dutch East Indies company...
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    conversion in 1962. Rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux is longer, while Lijnbaan in Rotterdam was pedestrianised in 1953. And Laisvės Alėja in Kaunas, Lithuania...
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    former marketplace, the Visbank (Fish Auction) at the harbour and the Oude Lijnbaan (Old Ropewalk, where ropes were made). The Grote Kerk was probably established...
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    the collections of the Appel Foundation (De Appel), the former Lijnbaan Center in Rotterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN). What...
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  • Plan for New City of Jubail in Saudi Arabia The Lijnbaan covered Shopping Precinct, City of Rotterdam Central Business District for New City of Jubail...
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    Netherlands 1987/88 (Ahoy Stadium, Rotterdam) 1988/89 (Veronica TV Building, Hilversum) 1989/90 (Lijnbaan Snooker Centre, Rotterdam) 1992/93 (Het Turfschip, Breda)...
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  • Haarlemmerstraat Maastricht — Grote Staat, Stokstraat Rotterdam — Beurstraverse, Coolsingel, Hoogstraat, Lijnbaan Bitola — Širok Sokak Skopje — Macedonia Street...
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  • the road from Lijnbaan to the visitors’ car park and the parking garage of the HMC Westeinde hospital, are not part of the LEZ. Rotterdam has an LEZ applying...
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    walks. The first purpose-built pedestrian street in Europe is the Lijnbaan in Rotterdam, opened in 1953. The first pedestrianised shopping centre in the...
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    Amsterdam at Koningsplein square on 3 October and the first store in Rotterdam at Lijnbaan street on 10 October 2024. As of October 2024, there were 4 stores...
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    traffic-free shopping zone in Britain, taking its inspiration from the Lijnbaan in Rotterdam, and was officially opened in 1959 by the Queen. A landmark in the...
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    Maliebaan, the Pall Mall alley in Utrecht. Leyn Baan Street in Galle is from 'lijnbaan', meaning 'rope walk' or 'ropery'. The Dutch also christened the islands...
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