Mecca is a two way street

Cadance festival in The Hague: a performance created by Eric Kraiel for this impressive building
"A performance about the crossroads that contemporary Durch society has come to" (The festival programma booklet")

Street fight-dance at the location of an to be demolished industrial site (see also nov. 16th. 2007 and nov. 3rd. 2008)

www.cadance.nl

stairs (3)

The staircase of the building of Ernst & Young in the Hague

built by Oud ("de Stijl") in 1938-1946 as headquarters of BIM/Shell

http://www.architectuur.org/oud.php

And one of the staircases of the KPN building in Binckhorst The Hague (see also post 17.11.2007 and 9.11.2008)

My expert friend Hans knows who built it:

Het oudste gebouw werd begonnen door rijksbouwmeester D.E.C. Knuttel
en afgemaakt door zijn bureau-architecten: Th. Teeuwisse en S.F.
Franc.

Het iets naar achterliggende gebouw is van de hand van J. Crouwel.

Reminders of the great days of railroading.... (2)

The "Ferrocarril Palma Soller", Isla der Mallorca, Spain

The journey begins in the port of Soller. A tramline using the original railcars and open coaches travels along the beach

In the town of Soller, the tram meets the train to Palma de Mallorca

In a shed, a tram railcar waits for further use

Night travel in the first class of the train railcar

Arrival in Palma de Mallorca

Waiting for the next day: teak railcars from 1929

Metropolis (2)

City Hall, The Hague (Richard Meier)

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/denhaagcityhall/

Annals of the dead.... (3)

The Hague Jewish cemetery...

when Mr. Heijman Edersheim died on 19.4.1943. At that time most of the jews in The Hague had to hide somewhere. The inscription on the tombstone says, that Mr. Edersheim's body is burried in another place. In the wall visible at the far end was a little port. Dead jews were brought in secretly at night and burried close to the wall. Officially they didi not exist...

Annals of justice? .... (3)

The open air jail at Kelso station, California

Waiting for a train.... behind bars
The thing was found on somebodies private property and gloriously restored to its original location, albeit not function

www.nps.gov/moja

Annals of justice.... (2)

Alcatraz Island, San Francisco
Home of some very famous inhabitants (Al Capone being the most famous), it actually might have been a place of justice

Only three people might have been able to actually escape from the place... officially it was announced they had drowned while swimming to the mainland with the help of floats made from raincoats. But their bodies were never found.....

Even so it is full of tourists, it is still an impressing place worthwhile visiting

A non-renovated cell block and a typical cell...

A bed, a shelf, a sink, a toilet, a little table, a radio built into the wall.... but there was also a library, inmates knitted, painted.... and made plans

the kitchen and canteen, the most dangerous place...

what a lot of irony in one little word.... altogether there were 14 escape attempts in 30 years, but only one man made it to the other side and was found clinging to rocks totally exhausted

ironically, after it had closed, alcatraz was occupied by native americans as a kind of protest against their discrimination

www.nps.gov/alcatraz/