IJbaan Cable Car Amsterdam, Dutch River Architecture Images
IJbaan Cable Car by UNStudio
New IJ Transport Route in Holland: Dutch Property – design by UNStudio, Architects
16 Jun 2018
IJbaan Cable Car Amsterdam
Design: UNStudio, Architects
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
UNStudio designs the IJbaan Cable Car in Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s fast, green and future-proof public transport connection
UNStudio has completed designs for the IJbaan: Amsterdam?s future cable car, commissioned by the IJbaan Foundation (Stichting IJbaan).

The IJbaan is a grassroots ?Amsterdammer? citizens’ initiative, snowballing from a crowdfunding campaign led by Bas Dekker and Willem Wessels started in 2015 and now supported by the Municipality of Amsterdam. Its goal is to create a new connection across the IJ by the 750th anniversary of Amsterdam in 2025. The one and a half kilometer cable car line is a clean and quick public transport connection between two growing residential areas: Amsterdam-West and Amsterdam-Noord / NDSM. The design consists of three slender pylons and two stations: NDSM Marina on the North Bank and Minervahaven to the South. The cable car is designed flexibly, so that in the future the route can be expanded to include a third station, creating a connection to the Hemknoop, Sloterdijk Station or even Westergasfabriek and the Westerpark, depending on growth and need.

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The cable car track spans one and a half kilometers, and will take 4....