Tag: Netherlands

Making Amsterdam the coolest city in the world

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Is Amsterdam The Global Seat Of Cool? A New Tourism Spot Says Yes
By: Jennifer Miller, fastcocreate.com

And tells us how to say “Van Gogh.”

Are you look­ing for a vin­tage, hip, indie, arti­sanal, open-minded vaca­tion? Wel­come to Hol­land. A new ad, Hol­land, The Orig­i­nal Cool, cre­at­ed by the Dutch gov­ern­ment to lure Amer­i­can…

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PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom

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PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom-Up
fastcocreate.com

Amsterdam festival addresses the cultural and business impact of a networked world.

We are offi­cial­ly in the age of democ­ra­tized every­thing. Entrenched sys­tems have been buck­ling under the dis­rup­tive pres­sure of par­tic­i­pa­tion and…

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Tempohousing: container housing products

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English: ISO 20 feet shipping container conver...
English: ISO 20 feet shipping container converted in student housing room. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cool company. Based in Netherlands this place designs houses from shipping containers (something which is increasingly being done in a DIY manner). This means the house is ISO standards compliant, modular and practically bomb proof. Plus for the growing numbers of the world’s poor and resource limited populations, these are recyclable and low cost housing.

container housing products.

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