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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 bicycles, but I love construction sites. They’re a temporary view of the underside of modernity.

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