Tag Archives: floating

Floating Eden

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday March 2, 2010

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

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday February 24, 2010

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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Rotterdam’s Floating Rooftop

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday September 13, 2009

In a tour with my students through the city of Rotterdam, we passed this amazing rooftop floating in the Rotte (the river that Rotterdam gave its name). This…

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The World’s Fastest Floating Hotel

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday August 20, 2009

Wow! Just after I reported about slow floating houses easily finding their way to the IJburg harbour, today I came across this rather amazing…

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A Floating Plugin Park

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Wednesday July 22, 2009

Joop recently wrote about the floating camping in Sausalito Almere by the Amsterdam-based ‘floating everything’ gurus that are working on these kinds of concepts since…

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Floating Camping

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday July 16, 2009

After our recent report about the meanwhile disappeared Dutch Sausolito near Amsterdam, we should spend some of our time on this small floating island at…

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VLNR’s Capsule Hotel

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Friday April 24, 2009

Some time ago we invited Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes of mobile architecture firm VLNR to give a presentation at our Pecha Kucha Night…

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