On June 27th, 2013, ‘ANIMAL ESTATES 9.0: PORT OF ROTTERDAM’ SIGNS…
…were installed today along the perimeter bike path of the ‘new land’ of the massive port addition known as Maasvlakte 2, and this Saturday is the opening for…
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On May 21st, 2013, A VISIT TO THE NEW BEACH…
…at the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2 this afternoon – to inspect sites (with press in tow) for the 30 Animal Estates traffic signs that will be permanently…
On May 20th, 2013, AN ANIMAL ESTATES 9.0 MAP…
…by frequent design collaborator Benjamin Reichen of Åbäke is in the works and today in Rotterdam we look at the new version, which tells the stories of 24…
On May 19th, 2013, IN AMSTERDAM EDITING VIDEO…
…footage from a winter visit to the ‘new land’ of the Port of Rotterdam for Animal Estates 9.0 – opening June 29th – and the weather here today…
On September 18th, 2011, DAY 2 ‘COMPOSTED CONSTRUCTIONS’…
…ended with a flurry of muddy activity as rains let up, the sun came out, and we installed our two days of creations around the Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld…
On September 17th, 2011, DAY 1 OF DEN HAAG’S ‘COMPOSTED CONSTRUCTIONS’…
…(my project for Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld, an experimental-settlement/ecological-exposition opening September 30th) consisted of a 10am pick-up by the Refunc folks in their cool truck for a ride to…
On August 14th, 2011, AMSTERDAM HARBOR GUEST BEDROOM VIEW…
…from my a friend’s colorful apartment in MVDRV’s ship-like Silodam sitting over the water on concrete piers – is what I am lucky enough to be enjoying tonight…
On August 12th, 2011, REFUNC IN DEN HAAG…
…are the handy recyclrey designery arty folks I’ll be working with on an upcoming project here in the fall produced by Stroom – so this afternoon in a…
On April 30th, 2011, OFFSHORE DUTCH WIND TURBINES…
…seen from above this morning are a surprising grid of spinning fans swimming in the sea under the flight path out of Schiphol on my way back to…
On March 30th, 2011, NILS NORMAN’S EDIBLE PARK …
…is a visionary permaculture landscape developing on a small tract of community gardening land in the modern outskirts of Den Haag – initiated by my British artist friend…
On March 29th, 2011, DEN HAAG’S PALEISTUIN NOORDEINDE…
…the public gardens of the royal palace, is where I find the happiest people in town today, sitting in a circle on the ground among their bikes playing…
On March 28th, 2011, ROTTERDAM’S HOLLAND AMERIKA LIJN…
…shipping headquarters and migrant housing for the thousands of Dutch headed to New York’s Ellis Island used to occupy this stately 1901 building, which survived wartime bombing, at…
On March 27th, 2011, LITTLE DUTCH KIDS ON BIKES…
…is what I am noticing around springy Amsterdam today – after an early arrival to Schiphol for a few days around the Netherlands for meetings about upcoming projects …
On January 11th, 2011, ROTTERDAM’S KUBUSWONINGEN…
…(or Cube Houses) especially the inviting central courtyards (featuring small retail spaces occupied by nail, massage, hair, and waxing salons) which I think were meant to feel like…
On October 6th, 2010, NEW LAND FOR THE NETHERLANDS…
…is being created in the North Sea to extend the Port of Rotterdam, and today I had a tour of the mind-blowing vastness of this operation – not…
On October 5th, 2010, LECTURE IN DEN HAAG…
…this evening at the wonderful Stroom – described as “an independent foundation established in 1989 as is a centre for art and architecture with a wide range of…