Pablo Picassostraat · Utrecht
Living next door while 63 apartments go up — photos and observations from the street.
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Pour day at Circulus Utrecht: a queue of Pouw mixer trucks in the street, a Schwing concrete pump reaching over the rebar deck, a crew screeding the wet concrete, and by afternoon three power trowels finishing the complete foundation slab. Photos from 15 September 2026.
Read more →The rebar mesh deck at Circulus Utrecht now covers the whole footprint, the new tower crane stands on its ballasted base in the middle, and trenches and utility ducts are ready along the edge. Photos from 8–11 September 2026.
Read more →A Kraan Techniek Nederland mobile crane erects a tower crane at Circulus Utrecht in a single day – mast and machinery unit in the morning, the complete crane standing over the rebar deck by evening. Photos from 2 September 2026.
Read more →After the summer a deck of steel reinforcement mesh covers most of the Circulus Utrecht plot, a blue van der Tol mobile crane lifts in more sheets and a deep service trench has opened along the edge. Photos from 27 August 2026.
Read more →The pile-cap grid at Circulus Utrecht has grown to dozens of blocks, a trench has opened for services by the site cabins, and the first ground-floor slab is being poured between the pile caps. Photos from 28–30 July 2026.
Read more →Ground-beam reinforcement now links pile caps across the full Circulus Utrecht grid, and a mobile Heijkoop crane swings back into position – rows of foundation blocks tied together by rebar mats, a mini excavator finishing the rear boundary. Photos from 21–24 July 2026.
Read more →Formwork assembled around the rebar cages at Circulus Utrecht on 13 July, then stripped three days later to reveal solid grey concrete pile caps standing in their grid on 16 July. The building's column pattern is now readable from the street. Photos from 13–16 July 2026.
Read more →Prefabricated rebar cages placed across the full Circulus Utrecht foundation pit with a mobile Kraanverhuur crane – workers guiding the steel cages into position as the column grid of the future building becomes readable. Photos from 7 July 2026.
Read more →Pile caps cured after the first concrete pour at Circulus foundation pit on Pablo Picassostraat Utrecht – square formwork bases, yellow-capped rebar stubs and drainage membrane visible. Photos from 29–30 June 2026.
Read more →First structural concrete poured at the Circulus foundation pit on Pablo Picassostraat Utrecht – crane arrives, pile caps formed in 36°C heat. Photos and observations from 22–25 June 2026.
Read more →Pile heads cropped and rebar exposed at the Circulus foundation pit, Pablo Picassostraat Utrecht. Red tracked excavator works the sandy pit as the building footprint becomes readable. Photos 16–20 June 2026.
Read more →Full grid of concrete foundation piles exposed at Circulus Utrecht, Pablo Picassostraat. Wellpoint dewatering pump active, two excavators cropping pile heads. Photos 8–11 June 2026.
Read more →Piling complete at Circulus Utrecht, Pablo Picassostraat. JCB excavator starts soil removal between foundation piles, cables and drainage pipes exposed in the open pit. Photos 2–3 June 2026.
Read more →CFA drilling rig from Kuipers Funderingstechnieken bores concrete piles at Circulus Utrecht, Pablo Picassostraat. W. Kool concrete mixer on site, rebar cages staged and ready. Photos 8 May 2026.
Read more →Pablo Picassostraat road closure takes effect at Circulus Utrecht – Kwakkenbos two-storey site office installed at the corner, access road locked down. This is the street until end of 2027. Photo 22 April 2026.
Read more →First real activity at Circulus Utrecht, Pablo Picassostraat – drilling rig, bigbags and heavy truck on site, Kwakkenbos signage fully installed by end of week. The morning noise from the rig is something else. Photos 13–19 April 2026.
Read more →Road-closure sign on Pablo Picassostraat Utrecht: 'deze weg is afgesloten van 20 apr. t/m 31 dec. 2027' – roughly 20 months of closure ahead for Circulus construction. Installed two weeks before it takes effect. Photo 8 April 2026.
Read more →Construction fencing goes up around the lot on Pablo Picassostraat Utrecht, revealing the Circulus project by Samen Thuis, Kwakkenbos and Beumer Nieuwbouw. Photos at dusk, 18 March 2026.
Read more →An excavator moves in on 4 November 2025 to clear the Pablo Picassostraat neighbourhood playground – the first real sign that the Circulus construction in Utrecht is actually happening.
Read more →The plot on Pablo Picassostraat Utrecht before construction: a neighbourhood playground with basketball hoop, climbing frame and gazebo, photographed June 2025 – months before the Circulus project started.
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