Tag Archives: amsterdam

Floating Eden

Will the first Dutch hills be on water? Dutch architect Anne Holtrop collaborated with green technology firm Studio Noach and botanist and vertical garden…

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A Floating Modular Park For Amsterdam

Last Friday I had an interesting talk with landscape designer Ronald Rietveld about temporary urbanism and flexible strategies for the city of Amsterdam. He revealed a great design…

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Mobile Bus Bars

Today I stumbled upon a nice article by Rebel Art about a wicked, unusual mobile bar in Berlin that consists of four old vans. According to…

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Green Connections In A Nursing Home, Amsterdam

On Bill O’Reilly’s conservative TV show, The Netherlands are often ridiculized when talking about the way soft drugs policy is organized here. First of all, O’Reilly doesn’t know…

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Wednesday: Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam Volume 12

Come along on Wednesday night at Mediamatic for the 12th edition of our Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. Show and tell, get inspired and have a great night out loaded…

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Be Nice To A Girl, Buy Her A Ring


After fashion design had to save Amsterdam’s Red Light District back in 2008, now it’s the jewellery designers turn. Talented jewellery makers were given cheap spaces…

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The Amsterdam Subway Dream


Amsterdam is building its 10 kilometers long North-South subway line. It’s an ultimate effort to change a village into a true metropolis. This leads to plenty of inevitable…

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Turning Times Square Into Art Square

Last week I came across designer Justus Bruns who told me about his ambitious idea to temporarily transform New York’s Times Square into Art Square. ”Times Square…

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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2

“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main…

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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis

Hamburg has its HafenCity, London transformed the Canary Wharf area into a new business district, and Copenhagen built a new cultural center at former navy base. Over the…

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Jewellery Pops Up In A Hardware Coat

If you were to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, for a long time it was obvious what you would get to see. Since a few years however,…

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Terrarium, A Sonic Experience Dreamscape

Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.

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The Dutch Strike First

As many of you may know, yesterday was a big day for football enthusiasts. Next year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa came somewhat closer as the official draw for…

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Saturday November 28: Pecha Kucha on the Road

On Saturday (November 28) we will be organizing a very special Pecha Kucha on the Road at the annual art festival of Haarlemmermeer. Theme of the festival is…

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A Bulb Of Crystal Light In Amsterdam

Dutch artist Giny Vos recently finished her latest light project in Amsterdam. The work called ‘Crystal Palace’ is a magic bulb of light consisting of 256…

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