Brick and steel apartment blocks line the harbour piers, crossed by footbridges over open water. Amsterdamned used a KNSM-eiland view here for a background shot.
What Eastern Docklands looks like
Brick and steel apartment blocks line the piers of the Eastern Docklands, with quaysides and footbridges crossing the open water between them. Three storeys is typical for most of the piers. The , a single red steel arch with no piers in the water, spans the Ertshaven between Sporenburg and Borneo-eiland.
On KNSM Island, the block runs along Levantkade in dark brown brick, its balconies repeating the length of the quay. The tower rises behind it to twenty storeys, corrugated metal panels catching the light above the lower brick blocks around it.
is almost entirely ground accessed houses, three storeys each. Most have a private patio or a roof terrace rather than a shared entrance, built between 1996 and 2000. Tenderstraat and the streets around it are paved in reddish brick, narrow enough that the housefronts nearly meet across the street.
On Oostelijke Handelskade, the occupies a long brick building built from 1918 to 1921, arched windows along its ground floor and plainer brick above. The quay in front of it runs the same width as the piers further east, open to the water on one side and the building fronts on the other.
Shot in Eastern Docklands
The only screen credit found for the Eastern Docklands is a single background shot in Amsterdamned, filmed from the KNSM-eiland side of the water. It is a vista rather than a location with its own address, so the credit marks a view rather than a building.
Amsterdamned, 1988
Amsterdamned's only shot in the Eastern Docklands is a background view over the water, two characters framed against open harbour rather than a scene built around one address. The dam connecting KNSM-eiland to the mainland still opens onto that same stretch of water, though the Piraeus block and the Skydome tower seen from it today were not built until after the film was made.
Kop van Zuid redeveloped former Holland America Line piers into brick and steel apartment blocks connected by footbridges. Most of it was built between the 1990s and the 2000s, the same scale of redevelopment as the Eastern Docklands. The Erasmusbrug and the smaller pedestrian bridges give it the same open water crossings. Kop van Zuid's towers run taller than anything here, so a wide shot needs to stay low and close to the water to hide the skyline behind it. Try searching brick and steel apartments now.
HafenCity redeveloped Hamburg's old harbour basins into red brick and steel apartment blocks on the same kind of piers, most of it built from the 2000s onward. Warehouses along the Speicherstadt edge give the district a similar brick and steel mix at a much larger scale. HafenCity's newer blocks run to eight and ten storeys where Eastern Docklands mostly holds three, so a tighter frame reads closer to Amsterdam's scale. Try searching red brick apartment blocks now.
Royal Victoria Dock in London, England
Royal Victoria Dock has some of the same ground accessed terraces and footbridges over open dock water, built from the 1990s alongside the older dock basin. The scale here is smaller than Eastern Docklands' piers, with lower blocks set closer to the water's edge. Royal Victoria Dock keeps more of its original crane and dockside ironwork in view, so wider shots need careful framing to avoid it. Try searching footbridges over dock water now.
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