The Reichstag’s Glass Dome and the Canal Rings of the Amstel: A Journey Across the Northern Plains
Light behaves differently across the northern plains. It stretches outward rather than downward, settling low along water and field before thinning into horizon. In Berlin, it rests against glass and stone in muted gradients. In Amsterdam, it fractures across canals in smaller, shifting surfaces. Neither city feels vertical at first glance. Even where height exists, it rarely dominates. The land remains largely level, the sky disproportionately wide. Movement across this…