Dutch architecture

My daughter Rosie was recently talking to me about how much more innovative new housing is in Holland compared with the pseudo tudor/victorian/georgian housing estates in the UK. Today in the Paleiskwartie near the central station in den Bosch I saw what she meant. The Dutch have great respect for their historic buildings, but they don't try and reproduce them.

's Hertegenbosch. Lindsey tells me the 's' is an abbreviationof 'des', the old-fashioned possessive form, meaning 'of the'. The word'Hertog' means 'duke', the plural being 'Hertogen' , and 'bosch' is the old spelling for 'bos', meaning 'a wood' . Originally it was a settlement close to a wood belonging to the Dukes of Brabant.
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