“The Hague”

Washmachine drum

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The first washingmachine drum in the vegetables gardens I saw, made me think mmm quite untidy to leave this object lying around. Then I saw every garden had one. I pictured over thirty, most of them floating in the ditch. The drums are used to filter the water the gardeners pump up from the ditch to water their plants. A handy solution.
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Vacant land

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. What can we do with this vacant land? PAPA lets its correspondents in other parts of the world have a look under their fly overs for alternative ‘businessconcepts’…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Un-Dutch

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. Originally from the Dutch Antilles in the Caribbian these inhabitants of Rotterdam have their vegetable garden in The Hague. Hospitable in a way which is rather un-Dutch. I…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

The encaged supporter

The Hague -  To prevent the supporters of both teams meeting (and ‘greeting’) the stadium itself resembles a prison. Moreover, deep in the rural area around the stadium, gates close when the match…
Rob van Maanen – Flyoverpapa

Prins Clausplein

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein is a traffic intersection with seven overpasses. The highway does not lead directly to destination below. In the Netherlands we tend to build fly overs on the outskirts…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Interactive CD

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. These thirty posts are a summary of the complete work made into an interactive CD for the city developers of The Hague. It is a shame we cannot…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Domain of the fox

The Hague -  Prinsclaus Flyover where the bicyclepath, the waterway and the railtrack meet. The area under the flyover is the domain of a single fox, crows who have their nests in the…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Soweto?

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. This small house is situated at the back of an allotment garden, which people who live in nearby flats can rent for a reasonable price to grow their…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Parts for airplanes

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. Scattered around the area there are several small industrial areas. They house up to thirty businesses among them depots for city furniture and soil. This is a business…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Hooligans and speed control

The Hague -  The Prince Claus flyover. The cameras on the left on the motorway are to enforce the speed limit. The surveillance camera watches hooligans once they enter the area from the…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Day trip

The Hague -  This futuristic machine is part of a small fairground, a popular daytrip destination for elementary schools of the Hague. The next door Chinese restaurant called The Chinese Wall looks a…
Rob van Maanen – Flyoverpapa

Soundwall

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. Another great way to reconcile the devastating highway with the vulnerable acitivities in the landscape around it, is this soundwall. The two coloured hedge on the top hosts…
Rob van Maanen – Flyoverpapa

NO restaurant

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. Once Stroom, a foundation that promotes art in public space organized a barbecue on this spot for a selected group of artists, architects and citydevelopers. They were send…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Highway from old times

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The Vliet waterway used to be the main way of transport in old times. It was digged out by the Romans. Then the rich people builded there mansions…
Rob van Maanen – Flyoverpapa

Cricket supporters

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The area hosts numerous sportsfacilities like a cricketclub. One of the few in the Netherlands. There are football-, korfball-, tennisclubs-, indoorski facilities, horseback ridingschools and a golfcourse. There…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Scrap pieces of land

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The map shows the highway leads to distant places on the globe but not to the direct spaces around it. The little roads and pathes in the landscape…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Korsakov

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The Mansions on this side of the water are all being reused as hardly any private person can afford living in a big place like this anymore. This…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Freestates

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. The horse plays a central role in this area. The men who used to run car demolation businusinesses still do a bit of scrap metal recycling but most…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa

Bicycle flyover

The Hague -  Prins Clausplein. In the past years the citycouncil has made some great adjustements to make the area more accessible to cyclists and walkers. This bicycle flyover ( or overpass as…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa