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Bikers First: Mobile Pop-Up Bicycle Parking Shed Wanders Amsterdam

Spending what feels like forever cruising around a crowded downtown area looking for parking can be highly frustrating, but there’s an obvious solution: take alternative transportation. Decades ...

Large-Scale Light Art Comes to Life in Amsterdam for Annual Festival

Every winter, visitors and residents alike get to see Amsterdam in a whole new light - literally - as large-scale light art installations add an extra layer of vibrance to the city. For the ...

Fishing for Plastic: Amsterdam Puts Tourists to Work Cleaning its Canals

It’s not often that tourists line up to collect trash in the cities they're visiting, and pay for the privilege, too. But in Amsterdam, ‘plastic fishing’ is a surprisingly popular way for ...

Found Art: Huge Exterior Wall Mural Uncovered in Dutch Museum Renovation

Originally painted in 1968 on the side of an Amsterdam museum building, this Keith Haring mural was covered in a subsequent renovation before recently being revealed once again to the ...

World’s Largest Bicycle Parking Garage Stores Over 6,000 Rides in the Netherlands

The Netherlands, where bikes outnumber citizens, is well known for its cycle-centric transportation infrastructure. In Utrecht, over 100,000 cyclists ride through the city every day, connecting ...

The Art of Tech Living: Amsterdam’s Urban Campsite Lets You Sleep in Sculptures

Every year, Amsterdam’s Centrumeiland of Ijburg hosts ‘Urban Campsite,’ a public exhibition of sculptural habitats allowing local residents and tourists can spend the night in mobile ...

Amsterdam Airbnb in a Metro Station Mocks Misleading & Harmful Hotels

Anyplace can be an Airbnb - including vans, sheds, housing that should rightfully be for rent to the city’s residents, and cozy rooms ‘by the metro’ that turn out to actually be in the ...

80,000 Tiles Tell Story of Amsterdam’s Growth in New Bike Tunnel

A 361-foot tunnel connecting the historic city center of Amsterdam to its revitalized industrial waterfront district symbolically links past and present with a stunning mural made up of 80,000 ...

Pimp My Cardboard: Strangers’ Cars Customized Overnight

Automobile owners in Amsterdam are waking up to find that their cars have been ‘customized’ overnight with cardboard and masking tape. Suddenly, their boring old sedans boast body fenders, ...

Cast-in-Place Steel: Robots to 3D-Print Metal Bridge in Holland

Designed to span a historic canal of Amsterdam, this cutting-edge structure will bridge traditional and automatic construction techniques using continuous extrusion technology to generate ...

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