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Converted Crane: 150-Foot-Tall Dutch Hotel Spins in the Wind

Featuring three suites toward its peak (and a spa pool to top it off), this boutique hotel is situated in one of the tallest and oldest maritime cranes in the world - and despite the steel ...

Heart of the Home Laid Open: Intimate Kitchen Portraits

Would you ever allow a stranger to come into your home, open every cabinet and cupboard in your kitchen, and photograph whatever he finds? Artist Erik Klein Wolterink does just that, ...

Pirate Island Radio Station Invaded, Dismantled & Rebuilt

Few works of architecture can boast half so strange a history as this structure now serving as a restaurant in the waters of Amsterdam. Built in the Republic of Ireland, the platform known ...

No Wi-Fi Zones: Taking a Break from Constant Connection

Free wifi is becoming so ubiquitous in many cities, it's hard to find a street corner where you can't instantly connect - and most of us like it that way. Unrestricted access to virtually all of ...

Grass-Covered Bridge in Amsterdam Doubles as Public Park

In the 'Venice of the North', bridges over the many 17th century canals are plentiful, but nearly all of them are for vehicles and bicyclists. The Iconic Pedestrian Bridge competition by AC-CA ...

Alphabet Building Spells Out New Approach to Creative Offices

No, that's not a school building, though local schoolchildren will undoubtedly gaze at the facade and think about their ABCs (and perhaps get confused, realizing that a few letters are missing.) ...

Punk to Posh: 14 Quirky, Artsy & Elegant Netherlands Hotels

Ever had a hankering to sleep in a wine cask, or swim in an underground pool with a medieval vaulted ceiling? Hotel experiences in the Netherlands run from the royally posh to the painfully hip, ...

Bright and Blocky Modular Portable School in Amsterdam

For many of us - at least in America - the phrase 'portable school building' calls to mind squat, bland, beige trailers clad in vinyl siding and smelling of formaldehyde. Such buildings can seem ...

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