yellow heavy equipment beside building

Photo of demolition activities in Amsterdam city, in the Sarphatistraat. The former Emma children-hospital is destroyed here for building a new hotel. They kept the old brick building facade (you see in the background of the image) because the city likes to keep its old expression. The picture gives a rare interior impression of the old Dutch architecture for public buildings, circa 1870-90, That period the construction of this now-demolished brick hospital building was built; it was used as a hospitall till c. 1988. Construction photography by Fons Heijnsbroek, The Netherlands.