The word Amsterdam is proudly emblazoned in the glass-tiled roof of the new Bus Station at the rear of the Central Station.
The domed roof is made of 4,500 outrageous orange and glorious gold glass panels, all fitted onto a steel roof frame. Each panel measures between one and three metres square and the giant letters are 22 metres tall.
Hex color reference: #FF664E
A colourful note: this red-orange shade is known as outrageous orange in Crayola world since 1990. In this year, the crayon producers decided to introduce more fluroescent colours to theri range and renamed their original fluroescent crayons at the same time. Thus, Ultra Orange Fluorescent (born 1972) took on the more exciting name of Outrageous Orange.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 8 March 2016
Travel with Intent 
What a gorgeous effect!
And the colour…. I love its name!
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Some of these colour names are brilliant 🙂
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Ms. Debbie you have a very nice blog, these pictures are quite pretty, thank you for posting them.
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Awfully clever, and pretty too 🙂
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Thanks Jo
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Lovely roof, It must be beautiful reflections on the ground when the sun shines through
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Yes, I hadn’t thought of that. I had seen it from the other side of the water and had no idea it was glass and bright until I was right underneath
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Debbie – you find the collect things! Love that roof
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Lovely pictures of Amsterdam newest addition to the Central Station.
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It’s a very clever piece of work – beautiful and practical
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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