Tag: Netherlands - Page 5
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World In A Shell Is A Mobile Shipping Container Art Project
Shipping containers don't make very good houses, but they are very good at carrying things all over the world. Artist Hans Kalliwoda solves this problem by filling his container with everything one needs to survive,
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Floating Bike Path Is One Response To Rising Waters
What happens when rising waters cover your cycling infrastructure? The Water Architect, Bart van Bueren proposes floating bike lanes.The architect submitted it to a competition called "nipped in the bud - New Bike
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Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)
Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas,
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Put Deposits On Everything, Even Street Furniture
Deposits are a wonderful tool; I have previously suggested that It's Time for Deposits. On Everything. Dutch designers Vincent Wittenberg and Guy Königstein have carried the principle a step further,
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Which Came First, The Bike Or The Bike Lane? (Video)
When Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious asked "What came first, the bikes, or the bike lanes? Do bike facilities encourage people to bike? Or are they a response to increased demand after there are more bikes on the road?"
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10 Urban Spaces Around the World Reborn as Vibrant Green Parks (Slideshow)
In some cities, parks are replacing asphalt, and city dwellers are suddenly discovering new green space just steps away.
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10 Urban Spaces Around the World Reborn as Vibrant Green Parks
In some cities, parks are replacing asphalt, and city dwellers are suddenly discovering new green space just steps away. To make cities more livable for an often growing population, government officials, activists and citizens are reclaiming unused or a
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Pack It In, Pack It Out: Mobile Crate Spaces By Studio Makkink & Bey
Like the shipping pallet, there's disguised potential in the shipping crate. Undaunted by humble appearances, Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey explore the possibilities of "less is more" in their playful Crate Series,
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Netherlands Will Only Use Certified Sustainable Palm Oil by 2015 - First National-Level Commitment
In a big boost for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification standard, the Netherlands has committed to only using sustainable palm oil by the end of 2015--and becomes the first nation to
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Rogier Martens Builds Store Display System Out Of Old Bottles
Rogier Martens is one of those rare designers who blend humour, style and a bit of environmentalism (the late lamented Tobias Wong was probably the master of this).
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Temporary Office Interior Built from Shipping Pallets
Wood pallets are more ubiquitous than even shipping containers, with two billion of them floating around the globe. In Amsterdam, Most Architecture has built a temporary office interior
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Amsterdam Townhouse Has All The Green Gizmos But Is Gorgeous Too
photos by I See For You / Föllmi Photography via DailyTonic Suzanne Labarre at CoDesign is "smitten" with FARO Architecten's Woonhuis Weijnen 2.0, a townhouse near Amsterdam. No wonder; it is one of those rare combinations of true green and great
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Rising From the Ashes: Books Repurposed Into Library Counter
Two years ago a fire started in a coffee machine on the sixth floor of the school of architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Now the school has risen from the ashes, and built its front
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Olympic Gymnast to Teach Zoo Orangutans How to Swing
Few animals are as adept at swinging through the treetops as our primate cousins - but sometimes even they could use a refresher course. After years of being limited to mostly terrestrial locomotion, a group of orangutans at a
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Replacing Steel with Bamboo, Dutch Designer Gives the Windmill a Makeover
We've seen people do a lot with windmills- from making them at home to wearing them. Now Dutch designer Gijsbert Koren has taken a step to make this age-old green technology even greener: replacing the windmill's
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Ãœber-Short Bike Path Gets Cyclists from Here to Here
Well-designed urban bike paths are a cyclist's dream, making it easy for folks to ditch their cars for a more
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Five Benefits of Cycle Commuting
Cycle commuting is apparently safer than not cycling to work. A Danish study assessing the health status of 30,000 people over a 14 year period found that, with all other factors being equal, simply cycling to work
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Cargo Bikes For Business: Do They Make Sense Today?
The cable guys in the Netherlands used to arrive on these huge tandem cargo bikes. They are shown on Transportfiets, an entire website devoted to cargo bikes, found by Kris at No Tech Magazine.
