No place is more concerned with this problem than the Netherlands ... the first flood: floating architecture. The notion is still in its early stages, with only a handful of houses built and ...

Olthuis's firm has built dozens of floating houses and office buildings throughout the Netherlands. Floating houses are built by creating foundations of concrete, then filling them with styrofoam ...

Small floating houses made out of cardboard might not be everyone's cup of tea, but they are being considered as a housing solution in the Netherlands' unused harbours. The boats are made of ...

The Dutch have found a new way to cope with excess water Small and densely populated, the Netherlands is one of the countries ... the company which developed the floating houses. At a starting price ...

Getty Images The Netherlands' floating houses are attached to a pillar, and can bob up and down the pillar according to the water level (Credit: Getty Images) The floating communities in the ...

That an iteration of Adeyemi’s MFS is now on show in Rotterdam is perhaps fitting: Rotterdam is the city in the Netherlands ... home to communities of floating houses, with his firm working ...

The project also benefited of a unique legal obligation existing in Netherlands: 7% to 12% of every construction site is to be dedicated to water storage, which makes floating houses also very ...

Discover the floating houses of Ijburg, a district of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Half of the Netherlands lies below sea level, and one third is covered by water: canals, lakes or rivers.

In addition, 17% of the total land surface is made up of water, per data from the official tourism website for the Netherlands. There are about 10,000 floating houses and houseboats in the ...

Designed in a pattern similar to brain coral, the city will consist of 5,000 floating units including houses ... Born and bred in the Netherlands – where about a third of the land sits below ...

Floating architecture has been around for centuries, particularly in low-lying parts of Europe such as the Netherlands. As global warming causes water levels around the world to rise, an old ...