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Engineering involving water always seems to present fascinating works.

letsbuildahome-fr:

Extreme Architecture

The Pont du Sart is a navigable aqueduct in the West of Belgium

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A spectacular moonrise as captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) craft, Rosetta.

This algae-powered building in Hamburg is truely green!

futurescope:

The World’s First Algae-Powered Building Opens in Hamburg

via inhabitat:

The world’s first algae-powered building just opened in Hamburg! Dubbed the BIQ House, the project features a bio-adaptive algae facade and it will serve as a testing bed for sustainable energy production in urban areas and self-sufficient living buildings. International design firm Arup worked with Germany’s SSC Strategic Science Consultants and Austria-based Splitterwerk Architects to develop the BIQ House, which launched as part of Hamburg’s International Building Exhibition.

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A magnificent Birdseye view of this solar power array in Seville, Spain.

jeroenapers:

Hoe het veld met zonnepanelen van de Gemasolar Power Plant nabij Sevilla er van boven uit ziet. Heel vet!

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An infographic look at bicycles in the Netherlands - a very sustainable transportation solution.

thisbigcity:

inrng:

Infographic from Lonely Planet travel guide to the Netherlands.

Basically the Dutch love bikes.

The race is on for a 3D printed building. Here is a contestant based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

emergentfutures:

It’s Alive! This 3-D Printed House Builds More Houses

Amsterdam’s KamerMaker house enters the race to be the first printed building in the world—and then it will start building more.

Full Story: FastCoExist

An interesting look at one of Singularity University`s first events in the Netherlands.

Very apt. Don´t slip! You could take the rest of the EU down with you!

stoweboyd:

Ben Wiseman makes the perfect political cartoon about the Italian elections.

Germany is the most forward thinking country in the world according to the Future Orientation Index 2012 created by academics from University College London (UCL) and Warwick University, who analysed more than 45bn Google queries to find that Germany had searched for the future more than any other country.

An interesting look at who looks to the future most.

Which countries are the most forward thinking? See it visualised | News | guardian.co.uk

Gerd adds: well, I don’t know about this study, frankly -I am from Germany and live in Switzerland (the 2 top countries) and I really can’t see how these 2 countries would rate #1 and 2, like this - does not feel that way at all, here. Someone enlighten me? Maybe analyzing Google queries just isn’t the right way to approach this (Algorithm Failure:==)

Thanks to Earl de Blonville for sending this link, btw.

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Wind turbines like these are seen all over the Netherlands. Often we have no real sense of perspective as to just how large these structures truly are.

fastcompany:

Good morning from Fast Company!

fastcodesign:

Aerial Photographs Of Tulip Fields In The Netherlands By Normann Szkop

[Art from Colossal]