Plan Zuid

Here Berlage designed the center of Plan West, the architecture of the Mercatorplein (main square).

In 1904, Berlage presented an ambitious plan of winding streets, which was closely joined to the existing city.

After research showed that this plan would be very costly and inefficient, Berlage was asked to go back to the drawing board.

Berlage presented a new plan in 1915, with straight narrow streets and long blocks, intersected by several broad axes.

The New South district was built in the style of the Amsterdam School between 1917 and 1925, consisting of the Stadionbuurt, Apollobuurt and Rivierenbuurt neighbourhoods.

Plan Zuid 1915, authorization by the City Council 1917, ( H.P.Berlage )
"De Dageraad", part of Plan Zuid, well-known social housing estate, B-Tellegenstraat / PL-Takstraat, 1923 ( Piet Kramer , middle) ( Michel de Klerk , right)
"De Dageraad", situation plan. Street-Y: B-Tellegenstraat (\/) / PL-Takstraat (I)
Plan Zuid, urban plan 1915 by H.P.Berlage , state of infills 1922, "De Dageraad" is on the right side
Amsterdam , Plan Zuid (in the middle of the map)
Street-Y: Vrijheidslaan (I), Rooseveltlaan (\), Churchill-laan (/)
Vrijheidslaan, middle-class housing, 1923 ( Michel de Klerk )