The Bonnefantenmuseum is the focal point of an early 1990s redevelopment in a former industrial quarter of Maastricht. Jo Coenen drew up a masterplan of a new city quarter, which had formerly been the site of the nineteenth-century Sfinx-Ceramique, an earthenware pottery factory. Photo by: koenpanis
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Visitors leaving Groningen train station are greeted with late twentieth-century Postmodernism’s most astonishing buildings. The Groninger Museum, designed by Alessandro Mendini may seem willfully random, but the plan is based on museum collections and functions. Photo by: KAPturer
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Hotel Suites is an East German airplane, which has been decorated into a super delux hotel suite. Composited next to the Teuge Airport in The Netherlands, this spectacular suite comes complete with all the amenities — including a cockpit where you can watch the planes land and take off. All of this comes at a fairly reasonable price of 350 Euro per night; you even have a 24-hour on-call air hostess.
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The Dutch island of Terschelling lies along the Dutch coast for 29 km creating a barrier between the North and Wadden Seas. It is most accessible of the West Frisian Islands, with miles of sandy shoreline and a wonderfully varied landscape for its size. The north coast is a white-sand beach up to 1 km wide, backed by windswept dunes with a hinterland of pine forest. To the south is salt marsh – lush meadowland where catle graze and cranberries grow. The entire eastern end of the island is a nature reserve for migratorybirds.
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It is “De Vrouwe van Stavoren Hotel” in the Netherlands. The hotel converted four of the giant old wine casks into four modest two-person rooms. This must be a great experience no matter if you love French wines or not. Once filled with 14,500 liters of Beaujolais wine from the French chateau today they’re transformed into rooms with standard facilities. All the hotel rooms are well-equipped, most with en-suite bathroom and shower, television, etc. The room will cost you from €74 to €119 a night.
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Star forts are amazing and really become visually stunning when you look down on them from above. This style of fortification design was adopted in the early 16th century as people realized that simpler, often circular forts were pretty crap when it came to the job in hand: defense. Photo: Bourtange Netherlands
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Bonaire is an island part of Netherlands, Antilles and soon will be the first island in the Caribbean with a 100% sustainable energy supply. The government of Bonaire, who boasts on its island’s beauty and natural preservation, took a project of trashing its fossil fuel energy dependence and developing an energy system comprised of an 11MW wind farm, 14MW biodiesel plant, and a 3.5MW backup battery. Ecopower Bonaire BV, a consortium of Dutch-German companies, Evelop, Enercon, and local Bonaire Water and Energy Company, is spearheading this project that is expected to finish at the end of 2009.
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