Tag: Netherlands - Page 7
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Pop-Up Camper Looks Like Sydney Opera House on Wheels
Trailers are such interesting exercises in design of small spaces. Pop-up campers and tent trailers have been around for a long time (see this great Pac-man version from 1936). Their great virtue is lower air resistance when towing,
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No Screw No Glue Barbeque by Joost van Bleiswijk
The designer
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Transformer Furniture: Suited Case by Erik De Nijs
We love transformer furniture, stuff that takes up less space by serving multiple functions. And what do you do with empty suitcases? Dutch designer Erik De Nijs of Nieuwe Heren solves the problem with Suited Case, a collection of suitcases
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Vertical Farm + Amusement Park = Oogst 100 Wonderland
Designboom shows us just about the coolest vertical farm yet, by Studio Tjep. Actually, it is much more than a farm; it is a restaurant and amusement park as well. It is designed to educate as well as produce; "The entire process is visible to the
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The Slow Movement Comes To Cars
It all started with slow food, a preoccupation with where food comes from and how it tastes. It turned into a movement and spawned slow design, slow cities, slow fashion, slow travel and more. We proposed slow cars, "a radical lowering of the speed
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Clever Rain Barrel Holds Its Own Watering Can
Some rain barrels are utilitarian and others are silly, but if you are going to attach something to the side of your house it might as well be elegant and practical too. Apartment Therapy shows Dutch Designer Bas van der Veer's "A
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Pioneers of Change: Repairing Manifestos, Slow Food & Duch Design Shows at Governors Island in New York
A Repairing Manifesto, six-feet-long needles knitting sheep wool into a huge rug, the possibilities of urban farming in New York and an original Slow Food café (image
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Trash Temple Built of 100 Tons of PET Bottles
After World War II, "cargo cults" developed among Pacific Islanders who had never seen such wonderful stuff as was dropped on them by both sides. According to Wikipedia,
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Repurposing Old Tables into New Offices
Two neat things I discovered today: Isabel Quiroga's design of a bookcase made of old tables, called "Storyteller" and an entire website devoted to "good products that are made from re-cycling, re-using, up-cycling,etc." Recyclart writes of the Dutch
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Dutch Students Have Designed the Cleanest Auto-Rickshaw
Last year, Enviu, the innovators in sustainability based in Rotterdam (NL), launched the Hybrid Tuktuk Battle. The challenge was to design a system to make one million auto-rickshaws in India and other developing countries hybrid, in order to improve
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Do You Approve of Petting Farms?
Harry at Mocoloco writes "we have a soft spot for petting farms" while showing this one in Almere, the Netherlands, (more pix below fold). I was shocked; I have always found them to be disgusting places where children either torture poor defenseless
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Forest Tower Has a Green Roof
I am getting vertigo just posting this. I have trouble getting to the top of the Dorset Tower, and couldn't possibly climb this Forest Tower in the Netherlands. It has every kind of lookout, but at the
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Wood Bridge In Netherlands As Strong as Steel and a Lot Prettier
Have I mentioned that I love wood as a building material? If sustainably harvested it provides a strong, beautiful material that can last for centuries and sequester CO2 the whole time. People have built bridges from it forever,
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Do Horizontal Farms on Buildings Make More Sense than Vertical Farms? Paul de Ruiter Thinks So
We do go gaga over vertical farms, but they might be just intellectual exercises rather than serious solutions. As Adam Stein noted, talking about New York: "Local food has its merits, but
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Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic on Bicycle Helmets, or Lack Thereof
So many people think helmets are ineffective, and they certainly didn't do much good in Star Wars. They also suggest that wearing helmets reduces the rate of ridership, but we covered that here, that is a discussion about bicycle helmet legislation,
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The Taga: Part Stroller, Part Tricycle, Completely Awesome
Combining baby-moving and exercise isn't a fresh idea, but the Dutch has the infant-wearing power walkers and jogging-stroller pushers of the world beat with the Taga, a feat of engineering genius that converts from child-toting
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Recycloop: Everything Including the Kitchen Sink
Brigitte at Inhabitat beat me to the "everything but the kitchen sink" joke about this temporary structure built in Amsterdam two years ago, entirely out of kitchen sinks.
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Bike Sharing Coming to Australia. Soon And Later
Why should the rest of the world have all the fun and practicality of a Bike-Share program (see links below) and Australia miss out? It won’t if several new initiatives attract the support they expect.
