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The World’s Largest Bike Garage is a Subterranean Wonder in Utrecht

Considering that more than a third of Dutch people use a bike as their main mode of transportation every day, it’s no surprise that the world’s largest bicycle garage is located in Utrecht. ...

Graffiti Glam: Surreal Scenes Transform a Baroque Dutch Building

Classical meets modern in a surreal mashup splashed all over the walls of the Thomas cafe in the Netherlands, the work of a duo of artists known as Studio Giftig. Highly in demand for their ...

Cast-in-Place Innovation: The World’s First 3D-Printed Concrete Houses

A series of elaborately curved houses designed for Eindhoven will rest like large boulders in the Dutch landscape, illustrating the complex forms made possible by new and evolving 3D-printing ...

Tetris House: Modular Structures are Made to be Stacked

Modular living units in a range of sizes can be stacked, spun and cantilevered over each other to create unique custom dwellings with views in every direction. The Tetris House makes it possible ...

Rounded Market Hall: Huge Digital Mural Wraps 118,000 Sq Ft

A massive mixed use project in Rotterdam by MVRDV, this newly-opened building wraps vertically around an open central space but also features one of the largest works of art in the Netherlands: ...

Glow-in-the-Dark Highways: Free Lighting Hits the Streets

Proposed just two years ago, this alternative solar-powered passive streetlight system is now already a reality, deployed along motorways across the Netherlands. As one reporter put it after ...

Transforming Furniture: Fitting 5 Rooms into 640 Square Feet

With a mostly-open floor plan tucked into 60 square meters of space, the design challenge was to effectively fit the functionality of five rooms into the footprint of two. The De Rotterdam ...

Coming Next Year: World’s First Floating Apartment Complex

Living in close proximity to ever-rising water can be a difficult prospect, and while the Dutch have come up with all sorts of ways to work with instead of against it, this is a new achievement: ...

Augmented Reality: Awesome 3D Hand-Held Architecture

In a weak world economy where everyone is trying to be conservative with cash, new architectural projects go unbuilt more often than not. That doesn't stop architects from designing incredible ...

Making it Rain: Eco-Friendly Ads Disappear Like Magic

Just when it seems like there's nothing new to do in the world of advertising, someone figures out a completely unique way of communicating a commercial message. Amsterdam-based advertising and ...

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