JTP Visit Amsterdam
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JTP Visit Amsterdam

Published on 27 October 2015

JTP's annual study tour has this year taken place to Amsterdam. Over a sunny October weekend 74 employees took part in the trip for a mix of team building, learning from place, good food and a little relaxation.

In Amsterdam the team visited exemplary residential neighbourhoods including the Eastern Harbour District neighbourhoods of Java and Borneo-Sporenburg, Funenpark and Het Ij as well as other transformation projects across the city.

In Almere the group toured the town centre visiting buildings by OMA and David Chipperfield, before walking the new self-build neighbourhood of Homeruskwartier.

Post-war interventions which have transformed the city were the focus of the Rotterdam group where they visited projects including The Market Hall and the Erasmus Bridge.

All the teams visited a range of exciting projects which both inspired and provoked conversations around approaches to the built environment, and in line with JTP’s ethos towards sustainability, the groups walked and cycled for many miles across the three areas.

The day concluded with a practice dinner and dancing of sorts late into the night.

All groups will be reporting back on lessons learnt from the weekend and how they can be applied on our projects at our Monday lunchtime Soundbites over the coming weeks.