Street art · Amsterdam
Photo: Richardkw, CC BY-SA 3.0
Het venster van het water
By Rik van Dolderen
Why frame a lake with two brick towers and a cutout house? "Het venster van het water" (The Window of Water) turns the shoreline into a minimalist gateway, echoing land art's love of site-specific, sky-framing monoliths.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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