IJburg is Ams­ter­dam’s largest hous­ing exten­sion and will even­tu­al­ly count 18.000 homes. It con­sists of 7 arti­fi­cial islands in lake IJmeer, which are being devel­oped in phases.

The cre­ation and real­iza­tion of the first 4 islands start­ed in 1999 and was fin­ished in 2011; the sec­ond phase start­ed in 2013. A large vari­ety of hous­ing typolo­gies, includ­ing urban hous­ing blocks, row hous­es, indi­vid­ual fam­i­ly homes and even float­ing homes, char­ac­ter­izes the islands.

In some areas IJburg is exempt from the super­vi­sion of the munic­i­pal beau­ty com­mis­sion, grant­i­ng home­own­ers total free­dom in design­ing their dwelling.