Flying Pins — Attraction in Eindhoven

Unexpected. Walking out of Centraal Station and I spotted these bright yellow bowling pins in the act of being knocked down by a bowling ball.

The artwork is 8.5 meters call and is the first work of art in a Dutch public space by the American/Dutch duo Claes Oldenburg (1929) and his wife Coosje van Bruggen (1942). From the artist's statement, "The yellow color of the cones was chosen by Van Bruggen and refers to the thousands of yellow daffodils that brighten up the Kennedylaan every spring. The head of the Kennedylaan was the perfect place for the artists to realize the previously designed image, because the long road reminded them of a...

FUN FACT: Eindhoven used to produce bowling ball pins before it was known for being the “City of Light” hence this fun eye catching piece is a memento to that 🎳

It’s a great landmark to find the busstop that leaves you near the TU/e campus and the Fontys engineering department.

It’s also an easy thing to hit into Google maps to find the fastest way there to catch the Flixbus since they show up at that terminal.

It’s also a...

Strange monument near one of the most important crossroads of Eindhoven, nothing important to say about it but it's useful to use it as "milepost" to find the flixbus stops more easily (there are several of them, next to the monument). Near the stops there's a small park in which you can rest and this funny "I'm going to" sign that you can customize, of which i...