Digging in the Shadow of NEMO

This part of Oosterdokseiland was a building site back in 2011, and I rather enjoyed picking my way around the fencing. NEMO's great green copper hull sits across the water like a ship that has run aground on purpose and this afternoon it had a proper foil in the foreground: a battered Caterpillar 385B from Oudtzwanenburg's demolition crew, parked on a churned slab of rubble and looking entirely unbothered by the architecture behind it. Fifteen years on, and the island is all glass and [โ€ฆ]

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/12/digging-in-the-shadow-of-nemo/

Digging in the Shadow of NEMO

This part of Oosterdokseiland was a building site back in 2011, and I rather enjoyed picking my way around the fencing. NEMOโ€™s great green copper hull sits across the water like a ship that has run aground on purpose and this afternoon it had a proper foil i...

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/12/digging-in-the-shadow-of-nemo/

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