Topic: Rotterdam

Dancing Is The New Energy Generator

Scientists and club owners have joined forces in a new venture using alternative resources, and it's dance power. Club WATT, the world's Sustainable Dance Club™ will open September 4 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, following in the ...READ»

A Posh Resort With a Wicked Wicker Playroom

A children's center at a resort in Thailand that was inspired by a mantra ray, and built using woven rattan.READ»

A Bridge Too Wild for an Architecture Competition

Architecture competitions usually put a premium on craziness. But the judges of a Rotterdam design competition took a look at this bridge proposal and threw their hands up in exasperation. The competition tasked entrants with ...READ»

Rotterdam's Fantastic Plan to Make Storm Water Beautiful

The city is planning 25 parks that will recycle rainwater while serving as urban playgrounds.READ»

Q-Bert Will Love Rem Koolhaas' New City Hall in Rotterdam

The starchitect trumps the competition and wins a high-profile in his hometown.READ»

Meet The KaosPilots.NL

The KaosPilots Netherlands, international school for new business design and social innovation, has announced an open day that will be hold on Saturday, April 26th. The event will take place at the headquarters in Rotterdam.  The ...READ»

Rotterdam: The Smart Delta City of the Future

Much ado has been made about smart grid energy management, but what about smart water management? IBM and the Netherlands city of Rotterdam are collaborating on a forecasting system for water and energy management. The ...READ»

Dutch Break Ground on Fruit Cake–Looking Building, Just in Time for Holidays

The walls of arching market hall will double as apartment buildings.READ»

Designed for Life

Industrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.READ»

Should We Build Floating Cities to Adapt to Climate Change?

Leave it to the Dutch, denizens of a low-lying, flood-prone region, to concoct a scheme for floating cities that adapt to the rising sea levels caused by climate change. The floating city idea, proposed by Delft-based DeltaSync, ...READ»

All Coat-Checks Should be This Cool

Wieki Somers has just won the 2009 Dutch Design Golden Lion, for turning a museum coat check into a full-fledged art installation.READ»

Proud to Be Green (With Envy)

We here at FastCompany pride ourselves on the fact that our offices are in 7 World Trade Center, a building with gold-level LEED certification. So when EcoGeek published a list of the world's Top Ten Green Skyscrapers, it came as a ...READ»

The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization

Joshua Prince-Ramus isn't just creating buildings. In a field obsessed with celebrity, he's putting the work -- and his workers -- first.READ»

New Layar Makes The World Your Augmented Reality Show

It's hard not to be excited about Augmented Reality since it's a dream sci-fi tech that's actually real and growing before our eyes--led in part by the AR Browser Layar, which has just been updated. Its new powers show the future of ...READ»

IBM Makes Water Monitoring High-Tech with Splash Portal

Wondering whether your favorite Irish lake is clean enough to swim in? How about whether the local beach has enough sand to make some serious sandcastles? IBM and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland can help. The two ...READ»

Li Edelkoort: Famous Trendspotter

Whether it's our impending obsession with veils and turbans or our "global quest for decadence," Li Edelkoort knows what's coming. She is the oracle behind Trend Union, the go-to source for trend forecasting for the fashion, beauty, retail, automotive, consumer-electronics, and interior-design industries. And you might not believe what she sees on the horizon. READ»

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Internet Strategies That Work (Maybe)

Thanks to the carnage of the past 10 months, we have a pretty good idea of which business strategies don't work on the Web. But what does work?READ»

Design Principal

Bruce Mau's influential studio works with a roster of world-renowned clients. But its mostenduring contribution may be to the theory and practice of design itself -- from what kinds of projects are worth taking on to how to design for creative growth.READ»