io9: amsterdam

Alien Windmills and Cyborg Prostitutes Invade Amsterdam

Lauren Davis — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:20:00 PDT

Collage artist Sam Van Olffen takes the Holland's most iconic features — its windmills, its tulips, its bicycles, and Amsterdam's Red Light District — and meshes them with dieselpunk elements to create strange, overstuffed scenes of the Netherlands' unlikely future.

Netherlands Outrezone [Sam Van Olffen]

Don Quixote of Amsterdam vs. The Alien Windmills
Red Light District
Electrotulips
Flying Dutchman

Floating Campgrounds for Your Waterworld Vacation

Lauren Davis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:30:00 PDT

If rising sea levels wipe out Earth's landmasses, you might miss the quiet days of camping by the lake and sinking your bare toes in the grass. Or just build your own campground, like the one spotted floating through Amsterdam.

To deal with rising tides and flooding, the Netherlands has begun to turn to floating structures, including the New Water development, which will feature "The Citadel," the world's first floating apartment complex. But a group of social engineering students from the University of Amsterdam have been applying the same idea to public spaces as well, creating floating markets and parks. It appears that they are also responsible for this floating campground, which could herald a future of temporary plots of DIY floating land.

[Inhabitat]

Subterranean Slaves Of Amsterdam

charliejane — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:40:23 PST

A Dutch company wants to build a massive underground city beneath Amsterdam, going six stories below the space-challenged city. Strukton, owned by the Dutch railway, wants to drain Amsterdam's canals one by one and then refill them with water after it builds its enormous troglodyte structure. The "web-like complex" would include parking, sports, movie theaters and warehouses... and people would hunt you down and kill you when you turn 35. More pics below.

I love the weird fake glowy images of the beautiful buildings of Amsterdam, to compensate for the fugly shopping-mall walls around you. And the giant beach mural, so you can pretend you're outdoors for a minute. The real question: Are they going to be able to keep the whole thing from crashing down around them in a few years? [Reuters]