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This Is Not An Architecture Theme Park

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday August 7, 2010

Did you ever sleep in a hotel with an architecture bookstore on your floor? In Marseille that’s possible. We stayed at Hotel Le Corbusier, to be found in

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The Erotic City: Taking Love to Another Level

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday September 3, 2009

As kick-off of the upcoming art event Liefde in de Stad, organised by concert hall Paradiso this month in Amsterdam, we’d like to introduce…

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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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Sewer Pipe Hotel

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday August 3, 2009

Celebrate holiday in a sewer pipe! Why not? From September, campsite Buitengewoon Groenhoff in the Dutch town of Vriescheloo will be offering extraordinary hotel rooms of…

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Gecekondu, Chapter 2: Amsterdam

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday June 30, 2009

New chapter of the Gecekondu and Sausalito Almere story! Last week we reported about the Gecekondu summerhouse hotel built by DUS Architects at the beach…

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Built Overnight: Gecekondu in Sausalito Almere

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday June 22, 2009

At the ‘beach’ of Amsterdam’s new suburb Almere, our friends of DUS Architects have built an illegal temporary summer house slash hotel which opened its doors three days…

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Kuala Lumpur’s Pop-Up Container Hotel

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday May 6, 2009

There seems to be no day without news about shipping containers being used for flexible building. First of all: perhaps container architecure is not really innovative any more. Further, we…

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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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Pixel Hotel Linz

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday March 5, 2009

Trend alert! Flexible hotels seem to be hot. In Austrian town of Linz, one of Europe’s ‘capitals of culture‘ for 2009, a flexible design hotel called…

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Invisible Hotel in Swedish Woods

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday March 2, 2009

A great invisible hotel designed by Architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter will be hanging hidden in the trees in the woods of Harads, Sweden. The project will…

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Space Inn’: Sleeping In A Temporary Design Project

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Friday December 12, 2008

Space Inn’ is a temporary design project by Golfstromen which has recently opened its doors in downtown Amsterdam. Space Inn’ offers two amazing rooms situated…

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