A Dutch Factory Town, Now a Design Center

[Stijloor]

Friends,

From The New York Times...

SOMETIMES the most sublime and unusual enterprises can grow out of the grimmest of circumstances. In the late 1970s and ’80s, Philips, the multinational company best known for electronics, which had been based in the small city of Eindhoven in southern Holland since its founding in the 1890s, started to farm out its production to Asia. Not only were hundreds of skilled professionals out of work, but the city was also left with several abandoned and polluted factory complexes just a few minutes from the city center.

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[Dr. L. Ramakrishnan]

Thank you for this link. I had been to Eindhoven many times on official visits. I still have a few friends at Eindhoven - Warm and large hearted people. It is a pity that it is slowly changing its character. Hope the current "take over" by designers help to preserve this once industrial town.

 

[Stijloor]

Thank you for this link. I had been to Eindhoven many times on official visits. I still have a few friends at Eindhoven - Warm and large hearted people. It is a pity that it is slowly changing its character. Hope the current "take over" by designers help to preserve this once industrial town.

Thank you! I was born not too far from Eindhoven. Same Province Noord-Brabant.

Stijloor.

 

[Mr.Happy]

Thank you! I was born not too far from Eindhoven. Same Province Noord-Brabant.

Stijloor.

Stijloor,

Eindhoven is about 45 minutes from where I live and I visit it regularly.
I even visit the DAF (Pacar) factories several times for one of my former jobs and have very good memories about it.

Bedankt voor je Nederlandse bijdrage, ook die over het fietsen.

Cheers,

Mr.Happy

 

[Stijloor]

<snip>Bedankt voor je Nederlandse bijdrage, ook die over het fietsen.

Geboren en getogen in Etten-Leur; vandaar mijn bijnaam "Stijloor."

Ik blijf Nederlander ook al ben ik hier al 30 jaar.