Hi, I am planning to go Amsterdam in May.

Researching about Fleboland I found Almere veeery interesting! I think I should take a train and visit that city one or two days...

What do you think it's a MUST in that place? I feel atracted by modern achitecture, music and bars.

There are no redeeming features to Almere. It is a sprawling new town, with little architectural value. The area around the station is downright dangerous at night.
If you want modern architecture go to Rotterdam, or explore the more modern parts of Amsterdam. Give Almere, and most of Flevoland a miss.
I admire you for wanting to go somewhere different, but I don't think Almere is the place to go.
If you do decide to go, a daytrip is more than enough.

Oh I see, I probably left my self being cautivated by a few buildings hahaha. I liked "The Wave" very much, also the urban entertainment center, the Housing Bouw-RAI 2, the Restaurant and Dwellings and a very particular Schafstall.

Following you I think I will be able to see all that in a single day if I find a sunny one.

Yeh I went to Lelystad a similar town on reclaimed land from the sea for the same reason you are going to Almere - like peas in pods with Lelystad I think.

Spent an hour or so looking around - nothing special. For modern architecture in Amsterdam itself hop the Ijs Tram - a fairly new tram line from Central train station out into some land reclaimed on which new towns are arising - the whole route of the Ijs Tram passes some avant-garde architecture.

Or take a tram to Amstelveen, a fairly new town that is a southern suburb of Amsterdam - check out the COBRA modern art and architecture museum/center there.

And yeh Rotterdam is stuffed with IMO great contemporary architecture.

Don't go there is all I can say.

PalenQ, it's IJ, not IJs (icecream) sorry.

dichotomy

http://www.easterndocklands.com/east2.html

A nice area of redevelopment just east of the main train station is the Eastern Docklands where a new town has been created with an imitation Ventian (to me at least) architecture with canals, etc. The IJ tram (dank u very wel for the correction menachem!) goes right there and beyond to even more vast all-new towns.

Strange that Amsterdam in its ancient center is a bastion of centuries-old facades - and often only facades with the ancient buildings behind them being gutted and now thoroughly modern - but the old center is ringed by some of the finest IMO modern architecture in Europe - thus a dichotomy exists where Amsterdam is the rare city in Europe with both the neatest untouched city center (at least from a facade point of view!) with an unfettered modern ring around it.

You can take a train all around Amsterdam and be constantly amazed by the new architecture.

Nope there is a lot more of what the OP is looking for in Amsterdam itself than in Almere or Lelystad IME.

I'm not really a big fan of IJburg, to be honest. What is special to me is the way we approach landscape design and planning in this country. That's a tradition that goes back centuries and the evidence is everywhere.
So, while Almere may be not much to look at, architecturally, it is the Flevopolder surrounding it, including a manmade wilderness, that takes my breath away every time I travel through it.

I agree completely Menachem. It is incredible to think that it was all, not so long ago, water and swamp.
Almere Haven is the oldest part of the city, and dates to 1976!
I would have suggested a visit to the Oostvaardersplassen, but that is being drained next year, so won't be at it's best.

Yes I enjoyed the actual train ride to Leylstadt - knowing that this vast area was recently reclaimed - it brought to life the Dutch penchant for reclaiming land from the sea.