De Ceuvel is an award-winning circular urban development on a former contaminated shipyard in Amsterdam Noord, built around a collection of recycled houseboats placed on land and connected by a wooden walkway through a planted landscape. Artist and creative studios occupy the boats. Cafe de Ceuvel, at the centre of the site, serves food and drinks made from on-site and local sustainable sources and hosts events, talks, and community gatherings. The site was deliberately built as an experiment in urban ecology: phytoremediation plants clean the contaminated soil over the building's temporary lease, and the structures themselves are designed for minimal footprint. The programming reflects this — events engage with sustainability, circular economy, and the future of urban space as genuine questions rather than marketing premises. De Ceuvel is a fifteen-minute walk or cycle from the main NDSM cluster, making it a logical extension of a Noord day. The café terrace is one of the more peaceful outdoor spaces in the city — the surrounding plants and wooden walkways create an atmosphere unlike anywhere else in Amsterdam. It is not a nightlife venue, but it is a place to spend an afternoon that means something.