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- Award-winning apartment design is built 90% out of wood Fri, 14 Jan 22, 4:30amSAWA, designed by Mei Architects and Planners, won the Experimental Future Projects category in the World Architecture Festival 2021. The apartment building drips with green roof and balcony plantings. It is also Rotterdam's...
- New heat pump could ease UK shift to low-carbon homes, say developers Fri, 7 Jan 22, 11:34pmSwedish and Dutch firms claim their technology could replace gas and oil boilers without added insulation
- A radical plan for livestock is coming to The Netherlands Fri, 17 Dec 21, 5:30amThe Netherlands has too much manure. So the Dutch government announced a 25 billion euro plan to greatly reduce the country’s livestock.[...]
- Students design a house that revolutionizes urban design Fri, 17 Dec 21, 4:30amVIRTUe, a student team from the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands has created a housing scheme to transform urban living. The self-sufficient housing model called Ripple strives to create a ripple effect...
- Prefab holiday home in the Netherlands features transforming rooms Fri, 30 Jul 21, 2:30amLocated on the Dutch island of Texel in the Netherlands, this small holiday home is found just a short walk to the North Sea. Rotterdam-based Orange Architects decided to take a different approach to the villa’s design...
- Oil giant Shell set to appeal against ruling on carbon emissions Wed, 21 Jul 21, 1:42amCompany hopes to get Dutch court ruling overturned which called for it to cut emissions faster
- These custom, igloo-shaped workspaces are 3D-printed with recycled PET Fri, 30 Apr 21, 1:30amArchiTech Company in the Netherlands has designed a 3D-printed, modular pavilion using waste from the local port industry. Known as R-IGLO, the igloo-like workspaces represent a completely circular design made from recycled...
- Daan Roosegaardes GROW is a colorful LED dreamscape Thu, 4 Mar 21, 3:30amAfter more than two years of research and development, Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers and experts have unveiled GROW, an environmental artwork of “dancing lights” that enhances the growth of leek in a 20,000-square-meter...
- Old military buildings converted into living spaces at The Hinge Tue, 16 Feb 21, 6:30amIn the spirit of making what's old new again, Dutch architect Niels Olivier led a team to transform a disheveled military compound into modern, functional spaces...
- EV charging stations, biofuels, the hydrogen transition and chemicals are pillars of Shell’s climate plan Fri, 12 Feb 21, 12:28amRoyal Dutch Shell Group, one of the largest publicly traded oil producers in the world, just laid out its plan for how the company will survive in a zero-emission, climate conscious world...
- Wadden Sea World Heritage Center promises great views and research opportunities Tue, 9 Feb 21, 3:30amThe Wadden Sea, known for being the largest unbroken system of tidal flats and wetlands on Earth, stretches from Denmark and Germany through the Netherlands...
- Shell in court over claims it hampered fossil fuels phase-out Mon, 30 Nov 20, 10:12pmEnvironmentalists say firm broke Dutch law by expanding its fossil fuel operations
- Shell to cut up to 9,000 jobs as Covid-19 accelerates green drive Wed, 30 Sep 20, 8:00pmAnglo-Dutch oil firm expects to save up to $2.5bn a year through restructuring plan
- Tessa Khan: ‘Litigation is a powerful tool in the environmental crisis’ Sun, 16 Aug 20, 10:00pmWhen a court in the Netherlands ruled its government’s actions unlawful, it inspired others to hold big polluters to account
- Utrecht rooftops to be ‘greened’ with plants and mosses in new plan Sat, 28 Mar 20, 1:02am‘Vertical forest’ tower will have 10,000 plants on its facade in bid to reinvigorate biodiversity